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| Perennials! |
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142 | 20.91% |
| Annuals! |
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30 | 4.42% |
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62 | 9.13% |
| Succulent plants! |
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171 | 25.18% |
| Tropical plants! |
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60 | 8.84% |
| Non-vascular plants are the best! |
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31 | 4.57% |
| Screw you, I'd rather eat them! |
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183 | 26.95% |
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Any of these are good options IMO. If you already have some idea where you'll have beds in the new garden, put most of the mulch there. You can just chop it down and let it rot in place without mulching if you want, but it will rot down faster ( and probably look nicer in the meantime) if you mulch it. A compost pile probably rots stuff more efficiently/quickly, but just scattering it on the ground is going to have the same result, and the bugs and the worms will still do their work. Burning is good if it's allowed, and ashes are mostly good for soil too. Roger that. Gonna sharpen my machete in anticipation of this weekend. Will be unearthing some wonderful nettle-aged floorboards from the end of the garden when I do so.
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Oct 1, 2019 11:53
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i'm thinkin about buying a mulcher. At this point I could keep the grass down on my 2 acres with a whipper snipper in 5 minutes but holy poo poo there are a lot of big eucalypts that drop loads of leaves and sticks like crazy
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Oct 1, 2019 15:40
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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:i'm thinkin about buying a mulcher. At this point I could keep the grass down on my 2 acres with a whipper snipper in 5 minutes but holy poo poo there are a lot of big eucalypts that drop loads of leaves and sticks like crazy FYI, mulchers can be jammed by stringy stuff. Don't throw vines in.
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Oct 1, 2019 20:37
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It's spring here in Australia and because I'm a lunatic with too much time on my hands, I've been sowing a lot of cacti and succulent seeds (a lot as in... 2600+ seeds of more than 80 species.) They're doing well. Here's a few that I started on a heat mat earlier in winter. Stenocereus eruca, the creeping devil. When it's big enough, it won't grow tall, rather it'll grow like a snake across the ground.  Lithops karasmontana. Cute little blobs, really very finicky about water. My third go around sowing lithops seeds - the first year almost everything died within months, last year everything survived just fine but barely grew at all. This time, I've got it down. They're plump and happy and not dying horrible deaths.
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Oct 2, 2019 09:18
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Lithops are pretty cute! How are they water-fussy?
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Oct 2, 2019 10:50
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Synthbuttrange posted:Lithops are pretty cute! How are they water-fussy? They have really important wet/dry schedules. In spring and autumn, they're in active growth and can be watered occasionally (usually when the plant starts to wrinkle a little, otherwise they'll split open and die.) In summer, they're dormant, and water is a guaranteed death sentence. In winter, they make new leaves and suck all the water out of the old leaves. Watering in winter will stop the old leaves from gradually shrivelling up and is also pretty much a death sentence. The usual rule with Lithops is -- if you're in doubt, don't water them.
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Oct 2, 2019 11:37
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lol
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Oct 2, 2019 13:26
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Fire up the strimmer and grab the loppers, get a burn pile going.
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Oct 2, 2019 14:12
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At least you know the greenhouse works! I would feel so satisfied and accomplished after cleaning all that out.
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Oct 2, 2019 14:56
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elgarbo posted:It's spring here in Australia and because I'm a lunatic with too much time on my hands, I've been sowing a lot of cacti and succulent seeds (a lot as in... 2600+ seeds of more than 80 species.) They're doing well. Here's a few that I started on a heat mat earlier in winter. Dang good stuff I love em all! I want more weird cacti Yea that ain't no thang you should be able to knock that down pretty quick Kaiser Schnitzel posted:At least you know the greenhouse works! lmao but also true, greenhouses are amazing Harry Potter on Ice fucked around with this message at 15:02 on Oct 2, 2019 |
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Oct 2, 2019 14:58
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Synthbuttrange posted:Lithops are pretty cute! How are they water-fussy? Lol
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Oct 2, 2019 23:10
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All that loving buddleia.
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Oct 2, 2019 23:11
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Bi-la kaifa posted:I just spent a shameful amount on bulbs. Spring better be loving magical. Gettng a few requests for this (or part of it) to be the new thread title. Y'all want that?
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Oct 3, 2019 05:57
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"I spent a shameful amount" It cuts close to the bone
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Oct 3, 2019 06:08
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Do it. I'll tell my new composting worms that I contributed something on the internet.
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Oct 3, 2019 18:23
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OK do you want 1. "Plants in General: Spring better be loving magical" 2. "Plants in General: I spent a shameful amount" 3. "Plants in General: I spent a shameful amount on bulbs" 4. I test the max length of thread titles with the whole dang lot (personally I like #1)
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Oct 3, 2019 18:36
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I like #1, too.
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Oct 3, 2019 18:47
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I believe the whole thing will fit. It’s shorter than the Weird News thread title.
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Oct 3, 2019 18:53
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I like 3 or 4
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Oct 3, 2019 19:15
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Just make sure you have leather gloves for those brambles. Also, for both the buddleia and the brambles, you probably want to cut them down to the ground, then immediately paint glyphosate on the stems. As others have said, burning (or sending away with the municipal plant waste) would be the solution for those, too. Neither of those will break down any time in the near future. Make a compost pile with the grass and small shrubs though.
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Oct 3, 2019 19:17
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#4 lets push it and growing to the limits
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Oct 3, 2019 19:22
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Not.. quite all of it, but serendipitous enough that I pushed the button anyway. Can change it if you want.
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Oct 3, 2019 19:44
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Nah it's perfect. Also my bulbs better survive the loving winter.
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Oct 3, 2019 19:47
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Haha I like it but I l've liked all of them. Spring better be loving
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Oct 3, 2019 19:53
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I’m looking forward to the update, in sixth months, that Spring be loving.
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Oct 3, 2019 19:57
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Haha awesome re: the title! Also in plant-related content, I got some air plants for my desk, and decided to do this with the Tillandsia caput medusae:  (That's a 3D print of my teeth, which the dentist let me keep.)
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Oct 3, 2019 20:11
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Before After  Toad 
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Oct 4, 2019 14:35
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Hope I am not in the totally wrong thread. I never had a garden, and now that I bought a new house I have one. The problem is: I have no idea how to take care of it. To start, I am looking for a lawnmower, and I am unable to decide what to buy. My garden is divided in 2 parts - 110sqm on the back - 300sqm on the front with significant slopes. I would like a lawnmower that is: - easy to use, also for my wife - without an electric cable I have seen some electric one with batteries from Black and Decker (CLMA4820L2-QW) or Bosch (0600885D05), but people online comment that the battery don't last long enough for more than 100-150sqm. I was thinking about those automatic robots that looks like a Roomba. But I have no idea if they can work if the garden is split in two, even if there is a tiled passageway between the two. Also, what if I have flowers/plants in the middle of the garden? Do I have to place a wire around all obstacles, or can I just surround plants with stones? I was thinking about a fuel lawnmower, but would it be easy to start up and use for my wife as well? I am not sure. Fuel ones are my least favorite option I am clueless. Can you suggest me something? Maybe some with better batteries, or a robot that would be good for my needs?
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Oct 4, 2019 15:46
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Oct 4, 2019 16:08
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Gas and electric lawnmowers are easy nowadays. What region are you in? Does anyone have any physical disabilities you're concerned about? How about a push mower? It doubles as a good workout. The easiest thing to do though is hire a lawn service, or see if anyone in the neighborhood wants to make a few extra bucks.
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Oct 4, 2019 16:21
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Mantees posted:Hope I am not in the totally wrong thread. I would go the electric mower route, and consider another battery or two. Also, you can always turn some of that lawn into more flowerbeds. 
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Oct 4, 2019 16:21
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I want to get a new electric motor so badly but I really hate running out of juice on jobs
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Oct 4, 2019 16:25
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Suspect Bucket posted:Gas and electric lawnmowers are easy nowadays. What region are you in? Does anyone have any physical disabilities you're concerned about? How about a push mower? It doubles as a good workout. I am in Belgium. No disabilities. I would be happy with a push mower, but an engine for power and with a storage for collecting the grass that I have cut. Solkanar512 posted:I would go the electric mower route, and consider another battery or two. Also, you can always turn some of that lawn into more flowerbeds. Any decent one that you would suggest in particular? Thanks to everyone!!!
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Oct 4, 2019 16:50
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Yeah, this all the way. Maybe wear shoes tho.
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Oct 4, 2019 18:30
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We have the Makita electric mower. It takes 2 batteries and with both fully charged we can do our small front + back yard. However, almost all of our tools are Makita so we already have the batteries and charger from other uses. Electric are actually pretty good nowadays. I'm just glad I don't have to deal with the fuel maintenance of emptying and refilling the mower every spring.
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Oct 4, 2019 18:31
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vonnegutt posted:We have the Makita electric mower. It takes 2 batteries and with both fully charged we can do our small front + back yard. May I ask you how large is your yard?
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Oct 4, 2019 18:37
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Mantees posted:May I ask you how large is your yard? It's a quarter acre lot.
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Oct 4, 2019 19:41
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vonnegutt posted:It's a quarter acre lot. I get about the same with 40v/9mAH of battery and take care of the same. I just got a Rhyobi on sale.
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Oct 4, 2019 21:01
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Sorry for the double post, but I'm really loving excited - I just ordered the wood and seeds for my raised veggie beds next spring. I have a hot bed that I'm already assembling, and the raised beds themselves will be two 4'x12' divided into three 4'x4' sections each. Would it be too much to do a write up on the crops and whatnot?
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Oct 4, 2019 21:50
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Mantees posted:May I ask you how large is your yard? I'm on a ~1/4 acre and a single full charge of the E-Go battery will mow the entire yard. https://egopowerplus.com/21-inch-self-propelled-mower/
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