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How horrible of a human would you be if you littered someone's lawn that wasn't protected with fresh mint cuttings, tiny ones, knowing what they'll do. Particularly on an unprotected lawn that gets fertilized with manure once every summer?
 
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Why oh why did I used disk instead of rdisk? :(

Just finished the book I mentioned in the What Book Are You Reading? thread. It was excellent. So good. I'm done; no more books need be read.

…maybe just that David Lynch bio @yaxomoxay mentioned. And Don Quixote since I'm only aware of it through other works' references. And Crime and Punishment because I remember really liking it in high school—oh, and every book that was perpetually checked out from my high school library… but that's it. I swear.

WARNING: More Kindle adoration below! Dunno why, but I find whatever transcription services used to publish eBooks really endearing for their bizarre mistakes. The aforementioned book was about Christopher Columbus, so I got to read this over and over:

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Also, if you look closely, the text from the previous page is still visible around the current page's text. I know it's a product of the e-ink screen not fully refreshing between each page, but to me, it recreates the appearance of a physical page with the contents of the back panel barely visible beneath the front's text.

I think I just need a big translucent old-book-smell scratch-and-sniff sticker to put over the screen, and I'll really be onto something.
 
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Zenithal said:
How horrible of a human would you be if you littered someone's lawn that wasn't protected with fresh mint cuttings, tiny ones, knowing what they'll do. Particularly on an unprotected lawn that gets fertilized with manure once every summer?
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Zenithal said:
How horrible of a human would you be if you littered someone's lawn that wasn't protected with fresh mint cuttings, tiny ones, knowing what they'll do. Particularly on an unprotected lawn that gets fertilized with manure once every summer?
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Conutz said:
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LOL don't mind Zen, he's just ruminating.. :D

@Zenithal there could be worse ground covers. Bishop's Weed comes to mind. That stuff even caused an organic gardener I know to go out and buy a gallon of Roundup in desperation one year. Then he planted alfalfa in the space for five years in order to help the ground recover health... and still he found the odd runner of Bishop's Weed now and then thereafter. I can't believe there are still nurseries that actually sell that stuff, they must have to hire night watchmen out of fear of revenge by former clients who in all innocence may have figured they were buying some more mild mannered ground cover like pachysandra.

At least mint, while extremely invasive, is good for something besides propagating itself all over the place. Mint tea, tabbouleh, mint rice and chicken...
 
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Zenithal said:
Bishop's weed is best kept in a container with a ceramic or terra cotta plate underneath. That said, some nurseries sell English Ivy.
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Ivy's a piker by comparison though. The Bishop's weed propagates by runner, cutting, injury to nodal stem cells (it makes more!) and also propagates by seeding from its flower, which is a compound umbel type, i.e. hundreds of seeds per blossom.

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LizKat said:
Ivy's a piker by comparison though. The Bishop's weed propagates by runner, cutting, injury to nodal stem cells (it makes more!) and also propagates by seeding from its flower, which is a compound umbel type, i.e. hundreds of seeds per blossom.

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Ivy has shoots that'll root out once it hits something firm, be it a wall or soil. It isn't too hard to burn the root system with salt provided you do the baggy method. The berries it produces are rarely eaten it seems. Thankfully so. I think a single berry has 12 or so seeds.
 
Zenithal said:
Ivy has shoots that'll root out once it hits something firm, be it a wall or soil. It isn't too hard to burn the root system with salt provided you do the baggy method. The berries it produces are rarely eaten it seems. Thankfully so. I think a single berry has 12 or so seeds.
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I have to ask: what's "the baggy method"?

My experience with baggies and weed is in a, well, different direction.
 
chown33 said:
I have to ask: what's "the baggy method"?

My experience with baggies and weed is in a, well, different direction.
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Dig up a 1" or thicker root. Cut it and gnash the sides with something rough. Fill up a baggy with salt slurry. Dip cut and shredded portion into baggy and tie it off securely. Cover with a few more bags. Set it down and let it stay there for a few weeks.

Much like brushing glyphosate on the cut portion, you do the same killing, albeit it takes longer but it's relatively safer.
 
LizKat said:
What's wrong w/ sunflowers? Birds like 'em, people like 'em, they're a great cash crop, they're pretty, they know how to track the sun in the sky which is fun to watch on a slow news day. :p
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Lol!

They’re invasive too. If uncared for they can take over a field. Then little boys have to pull them out by hand! #Moan

On the farm we had a 5 gallon can of 2,4,5-T (agent orange) before it was banned. Drizzling an ounce or two around the base of a small tree and within 24 hours it was wilting badly on it way to die.
 
Gutwrench said:
Lol!

They’re invasive too. If uncared for they can take over a field. Then little boys have to pull them out by hand! #Moan

On the farm we had a 5 gallon can of 2,4,5-T (agent orange) before it was banned. Drizzling an ounce or two around the base of a small tree and within 24 hours it was wilting badly on it way to die.
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I have a vague memory of one of my grandfathers telling's me about him using 4,2 D, I think it was and cyclone b for their intended purposes long before they were used for nefarious ones.

The thing with sunflowers is with the edible varieties you can eat the seeds/kernels, compost the flower petals and leaves, but the head and stalk can be dried out and burned like wood.
 
Gutwrench said:
Do people plant Canadian thistle, button weed, and milk weed? They’re on my list too! :mad:
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Easy there, BARTO. People plant Oleander. They sell it as Osh, Home Depot, Lowes, nurseries. That stuff is dangerous in small amounts. Witnessed a neighbor's dog die of it.
 
Zenithal said:
I have a vague memory of one of my grandfathers telling's me about him using 4,2 D, I think it was and cyclone b for their intended purposes long before they were used for nefarious ones.
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Yeah. 2,4-D is a strong herbicide too. We had a can of that too. Actually Agent Orange was a mixture of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D. (I just looked it up!)
 
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