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They accidentally brought Japanese Knotweed and it’s destroying their habitats, bringing the buildings down.
Mint planet would smell so good though
Authentic Space Mint.
Lupins are good. Nitrogen fixers. Tough.
Almost a plot point in the Jenkinsverse, except the real winner was bacteria.
Kudzu would win this fight.
Add horseradish and bamboo, and that planet is finished.
sprinkle a little bermuda grass and we’ll terraform this planet in no time
Bermuda grass? Then we’ll be needing Dandelions and crabgrass.
Add a single capitalist and the planet can be rejuvenated to its original barren state
“No it won’t! Everything is better than ever! All that environmental disaster all around you is a Liberal/ Democrat/ Progressive/ Socialist/ Communist/ Ukranian/ European hoax! YOU’RE ALL OUT TO GET ME! I HAVE GUNS!” - That Capitalist
Fucking mint, never get rid of it.
However, thinking about blackberries, the only solution is fire.
I don’t know which one wins, as long as they win far away from me…
Always plant your mint in a pot. Preferably a suspended one.
I don’t think there was ever a version of Mint that would run on a Blackberry.
You want FEWER blackberries?
The heck is wrong with you?
Himalayan blackberries are a huge issue here in the PNW. They are imported and invasive. Also delicious! But they annihilate native plants.
TIL about a PNW problem!
A few months ago I went to Portland for the first time and I was so happy to find a huge patch of wild blackberries just outside my hotel. They were delicious! I had no idea they were an invasive and bothersome problem!
I’ve lived in NJ and SC, and in both places it is kind of rare and special to find wild blackberries.
There are also native blackberries! But most of what you see in the valleys are the Himalayan variety.
The native blackberries do not form a hedge or grow on top of things. They’re more of a ground cover. The berries are smaller, and in my opinion, tastier. They have much smaller stems as well.
Yeah we went and spent a week up in the Seattle area couple years ago camping and the campsite we were at had blackberries all over it. We’re from an area that these things don’t grow and so my kids were super excited and spent the entire camping trip picking blackberries and eating them.
Just outside of Portland, I got to take a field trip in my senior year eco-science class to go cut down blackberry bushes. They gave us machetes!
I think they want fewer brambles, because blackberries are neither the most-voluminous nor the most-annoying part of the bush.
Straight to all my veg ecologist friends
I get the sentiment IF you live in a place that has the right climate and conditions for raspberry. But from my experience, the right conditions and climate for mint are negotiable while those for raspberry are less so.
Yeah I live in the high desert neither one of those things grow out here. Up in this area you get Russian thistle otherwise known as tumbleweeds and sagebrush and those things just grow everywhere. The Russian thistle is the worst thing in the world because those things clog up everything clog up everywhere take over everything. And then we have goat’s heads that take over all the cities and blow all the kids tires and end up in your house when you’re walking around you step on them. I would take mint or blackberries over any of these things.
I haven’t grown raspberries, but if they’re anything like blackberries once they’re established it’s a bitch to kill them.
you know there’s this artist who is famous or something because he once put a bunch of oversized beach umbrellas all along this gorgeous spanish beach like every quarter mile for fifty miles or something idk. anyways the wind picked up as the wind does along the beach, and the beach umbrellas caught the wind as beach umbrellas do and they started rolling along the beach and they had these pointy ends where they were stuck in the sand and i think someone might have died and anyways art never says quite what you think it is going to say, even when you’re making it.
anyways i was kind of inspired by this dude even though i forgot his name because i’m terrible with names and i would love to make an art project that is “accidentally” some kind of ecological disaster or something and you just gave me an idea: berries edit no berries mixed with that fuck evil grass. is anyone here a genetic engineer?
Glass Shattering Sound
Kudzu struts into the arena
Kudzu isn’t even all that bad. The folks in charge of tracking it rate it far lesser of a concern than other oriental invasives. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kudzu-vine-ate-south-180956325/
You say that, but I’ve seen some amazing kudzu patches, and I’ve never seen or heard of anything else even close.
but I’ve seen some amazing kudzu patches
Yes, and as noted in the article I linked, there is a reason for that. You see everything there is. Kudzu’s amazing ability is to be seen from the window of a car on a road. If there is even a bit of management or the area isn’t clear cut and kept constantly clear of competition from maintenance of the road you’re traveling on, kudzu is more of a dudzu.
I get it, it was planted to be ornamental, but that’s not what I’m talking about.
A couple of years ago, I was travelling through the South somewhere, and went past a stretch of kudzu that was at least a half mile long, and covered EVERYTHING. I pulled over into a space that was almost a parking lot. Clearly I wasnt the first to stop to check this out.
It was so thick, you could not tell what was under it. It stretched as back into the woods as far as I could see. I took a bunch of pictures, but they were underwhelming. There was a lot of green, but they just didn’t show how overwhelming it was. I couldn’t find the pix anyway. And while that was the biggest Kudzu infestation I’ve seen, I’ve witnessed plenty of other impressive ones as well. Although I do have to say, I’m seeing less lately. Anti-Kudzu campaigns seem to be having an effect.
So yeah, I understand that it was planted by the road where I could see it, but that still doesn’t describe the sheer immensity of the coverage. That isn’t just an invasive plant becoming ubiquitous, it truly gives a new meaning to the word “invasive.”
I’m a plant guy, I love building gardens and stuff, so I know what I’m looking at, and I’ve never seen anything else in my travels that comes close to rivaling Kudzu.
“Oh no, it’s cheatgrass with a steel chair!”
Having had both in my garden, mint will win.
Did they mean brambles maybe?
Mint vs red raspberries - winner is mint
Mint vs black raspberries - those stabby raspberries win every time
Probably, I was going to say European blackberry but that is also known as brambles apparently.
Blackberries would probably learn to coexist with mint if they can share enoug root space.
We have 3 kinds of mint and I’ve already pulled fistfuls out of the ground where they’re encroaching on neighboring plants. We planted it in the garden next to our big oak tree for our daughter to nibble when she’s out there with her friend, but it’s probably the last season we’ll keep it.
Bold to assume the mint gives you a choice in whether you “keep” it.
I’m a masochist. I have mint on one side of the house and wisteria on the other. I should round it out with bamboo and blackberries. Make my home into a rhizome cage match.
For good measure, add Japanese knotweed and tree of heaven
Had to scroll to find knotweed. Someone knows what they’re talking about.
Lest plant some rum plants and mojito that mint into line!
This is basically the plot of the game Eufloria.
Children Of Time Book 5 is going to be weird
You just reminded me to check on the 4th book, and it has been released. Thank you kind sir or madame (or uplifted rat).
Currently listening to 4. It’s fun and weird, as always
I guess there’s gotta be some uplifted plants out there. They’ll probably have to fight the grey fungus.
Somewhere there’s a joke about a Raspberry Pi running Linux Mint in there
Sir this is a
Wen…Lemmy, so yeah okay, carry on then.
