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biodiversity and soil health (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 35 points 4 months ago

My only complaint about turning my lawn into a wildflower and curated garden is a rabbit like to chomp our asters before they can bloom.

He only ate one and cut down the others and left their buds to decay in the soil.

We do have other asters in the back that are now so strong he can’t do that.

Also one more good thing about the biodiversity thing: everything in my garden is massive this year, and it’s been growing so quickly. The soil is definitely thriving.

[-] dumples@midwest.social 19 points 4 months ago

Rabbits love clover and all legumes actually. So if you got dutch white clover in your lawn they will go for that first. They will be enough to discourage most eating of garden plants. They avoid everything except my sunflower which they have been eating while they are low. Or at least something is.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 months ago

I have white clover but they still go for the asters. There’s no clover in the front though.

I also have a groundhog who I think also eats the plants, maybe he’s involved.

I think it’s just the asters are new and relatively low, the established ones in the back don’t get eaten anymore.

[-] dumples@midwest.social 15 points 4 months ago

Me planting in my garden meant to feed wildlife:

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago

I've made peace with it.

Plants are rabbit food, if they die they die and new plants get added.

[-] dumples@midwest.social 6 points 4 months ago

Looking at the health of the whole garden / ecosystem has made me very zen. Especially when pulling things I don't want or have too much of. I've been trying up transfer some to abandoned areas for things that aren't common. They usually die but they were going to die when I pulled them anyhow.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

My husband laughed at me for pulling weeds and throwing them in the yard, but they ARE the "lawn", I don't care if they grow out there, just want to advantage the flowers and food plants in the defined spaces.

[-] dumples@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago

I always mow in anything I have pulled into the yard

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think sunflower seeds are just so delicious they get eaten by everything. Squirrels, birds, who knows what all. I can get sunflowers, but this patch of about a dozen sunflowers this year came from about 60 seeds.

[-] dumples@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago

I get it. I have been doing packets of seeds to get one or two even when I press into the soil.

I get sprouts and then those get chomped. Everyone loves Sunflowers

[-] alexcleac@szmer.info 1 points 4 months ago

I love sunflowers. Though the sunflower has the same issue of sucking the ground dry of the nutrients, you will need to keep rotating the place, otherwise it will take everything from the ground to the state that nothing will grow there for years.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah I rotate everything, usually would put them in the front garden since they are showy, this year in the veg garden because it's so hot in the summer they give some shade to the rest of the stuff. It's a mess right now, the butternut squash got attacked so bad I think it has to be removed in a plastic bag. And something is attacking the sprawling watermelon plants too, but those seem to be surviving.

[-] not_IO 7 points 4 months ago

i prob don't need to tell you this but remember to leave the dead plants where they are so that the nutrients can go back into the ground, also seeds

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 5 points 4 months ago

This is especially important when you have trees in your garden. If you remove all grass from your garden the regrowing& and the trees will suck your garden dry of nutrients in 20-30 years.

[-] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago

Remove all of the grass, let it bake in the sun until it dies, and then mulch with the dead grass. Living grass will suck your garden dry of nutrients in a time short compared to 20-30 years.

[-] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Plus those dead plants create micorhabitats for decomposers like fungi and bacteria that break everything down into plant-available nutrients while building soil structure.

[-] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 21 points 4 months ago

partridge chicken

[-] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 months ago

They always make my day when I find them. Where I live there's a lot of abandoned land with good biodiversity (because nobody is around to fuck it up!) and you can hear their broken-fax-machine calls during mating time and then later in the year you might be lucky and find mum and chicks running along some path.

[-] shiftymccool@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Stormlight fan snickering intensifies

[-] sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 months ago

did a tick make this post?

[-] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 16 points 4 months ago

Ah yes, because the recent explosion of tick population is surely because of our biodiversity and healthy ecosystems.

Do you know what the natural predators of ticks are? Do you know what sort of environments they like to sleep and rest and hunt? Do you know what the average American's response is to finding a burrow on their property? Or their cats' and dogs' response?

We truly haven't learned from medieval cityfolk killing cats because of the black death.

[-] Upperhand@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Do you know what a joke is?

[-] not_IO 2 points 4 months ago

jokes perpetuate ideas past the critical mind into your sub conscious

[-] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh, sure. It's actually a pretty broad category of stories and statements people can make, but the common denominator is that it's perceived as funny. Why do you ask?

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

Never got a tick from my garden which is left to grow as a meadow, got a few from actually somewhat wild areas though.

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 months ago

partridge chicken

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