#lawn alternatives

[headspace-hotel]

I...tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.

I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as "ecological deserts."

Feel free to repost, no need for credit

#random #ecology #shitpost #sorta #gardening #plants #lawn alternatives #anti lawn #pro biodiversity #biodiversity win #bugs tw #ticks

[hometoursandotherstuff]

#lawn alternatives #eco friendly low maintenance landscaping #other stuff

[bumblebeeappletree]

Today I'm walking you through some simple tips on how to turn your lawn or backyard into a productive vegetable garden to grow your own food!

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#Robin Greenfield #solarpunk #grow food not lawns #food not lawns #gardening #orlando #florida #USA #lawns #anti lawn #garden #food gardening #Youtube #alternative lawn #lawn alternatives

[turtlesandfrogs]

Very excited about this bowl:

These are seedheads from self-heal, Prunella vulgaris, from my yard. I like it because it's a very tough plant, pollenators like it, we're in it's native range, and it's quite adaptable.

A lot of my clients are moving away from monoculture grass lawns, and this plant is one that does well in lawns without irrigation or fertilizer. And, when it's in bloom, it's like the lawn is studded with amethyst. It's just gorgeous.

Anyway! Now I'm going to have a bunch of seeds to over sow lawns with to help along the transition toward a more environmentally friendly lawn.

#gardenblr #gardening #lawns #lawn alternatives #solarpunk gardening

[spreadcasts]

Original Transplants Podcast Episode 67: is sponsored by Will's forthcoming book, Here, The Bees Sting [https://mercenarypen.substack.com/p/here-the-bees-sting-dropping-52022], available from Amazon and other major booksellers. Satoyama Homestead stewards Will and Sarah are busy with spring activities. In the bee yard, Will is hoping the newly installed bee packages will grow in strength and number - or be supplemented by a trapped swarm or two - after a cold and rainy start to spring that saw a lot of tree blossoms nipped by late frosts.  In the chicken coop, broody hen Mayapple is isolated in the barn to break her broodiness, and the rest of the chickens are testing their boundaries. Sarah is working on rehabilitating the edible landscape, using a mattock or "grub axe" to restore an overgrown garden bed. The currants and raspberries experienced a significant die-off, the peach buds all frosted off, and the apple trees are infested with eastern tent caterpillars. In better news, the homesteaders are harvesting sorrel, arugula, spinach, radishes, and asparagus, with strawberries not far behind. One of the pawpaw trees bloomed for the first time this year, and the homesteaders have enjoyed gifts of locally harvested rainbow trout from neighbors. Sarah just transplanted hot and sweet peppers and is on-track to transplant tomatoes, okra, and squash over the coming weeks. In other homestead chores, the trusty wood stove will have to be repaired or replaced. For homestead fun, Will explains culinary experiments with caul fat burgers and maple sugaring, and the joys of mowing during a heavy frost. The homesteaders are sharing their love of backyard birding with baby Lucy, who has taken a special liking to the hummingbirds. Sarah is enjoying her new ditch scythe from Scythe Supply [https://scythesupply.com/]. For agricultural news, Will shares new research on fungi language, Sarah spots a trend in articles on alternatives to turf lawns, and a new baby formula factory receives FDA approval in Reading, PA.

Show Notes (after the jump)

Here, the Bees Sting book by Will Caverly

Scythe Supply https://scythesupply.com/

Eastern Tent Caterpillar - Penn State Extension https://extension.psu.edu/eastern-tent-caterpillar

Caul Fat Burger - Meat Eater https://www.themeateater.com/cook/recipes/caul-fat-burger-recipe

Mushrooms Communicate with Each Other  - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/06/fungi-electrical-impulses-human-language-study

America's Love Affair with the Lawn is Getting Messy - AP https://apnews.com/article/environment-gardening-white-plains-b2a0c7ab8940f93e872a90d86ea9c6f4

Eco-friendly Alternatives to Lawn Grass - Family Handyman https://www.familyhandyman.com/article/eco-friendly-alternatives-to-lawn-grass/

Baby Formula Poised to Feed Dairy Industry - Lancaster Farming https://www.lancasterfarming.com/farming/dairy/baby-formula-poised-to-feed-dairy-industry/article_1d28e1ae-d12e-11ec-9f56-77591ba479fa.html

Where There is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook

#original transplants #podcast #homestead #homesteading #gardening #vegetable gardening #natural gardening #organic gardening #permaculture #edible landscaping #hunting #game meat #naturalized yard #naturalized lawn #lawn alternatives

[dreaming-of-brent]

Mediterranean Landscape

Inspiration for a mid-sized mediterranean drought-tolerant and full sun backyard mulch garden path in summer.

#lawn replaced with dg #lawn alternatives #decomposed granite #phormium jester #lawn conversion #stately pergola #low water garden

[daddyskinkyelf]

Landscape San Francisco

Photo of a huge contemporary full sun hillside gravel garden path in fall.

#cast concrete #gray pebbles #lawn alternatives #lawn replacement #creative landscape design

[meatconfetti]

Contemporary Landscape - Pathway Photo of a mid-sized contemporary partial sun side yard mulch garden path in fall.

#plants for the drought #lawn alternatives #gravel #sculpture #succulents and companions #plant combinations for marin

[silly-drawings-by-sugar]

Concrete Pavers Front Yard in San Francisco

#Design ideas for a huge contemporary shade front yard concrete paver garden path in spring. marin landscape designer #front entrance pathway #pebbles and concrete #poured in place concrete #lawn alternatives #front yard #lawn replacement

[searsage]

Artificial intelligence therapist Au Al-an/ Robin

Okay hear me out.

Robin is an intergalactic therapist/ researcher who studies Ais and rehabiltates them so they can be safely resold back into the ai ship market to pair with ships of many kinds for many uses.

She has the repretation as being damn good at what she does, but also as a anti-social bitch with an ego to boot.

So it comes as no surprise when she pisses off Xenoworks and her superiors feel she needs to get a bit humbled..

She gets landed with a case a particularly volitile AI recovered from an enigmatic vessel set for imenant neutralization.

But Instead of cowering from the challenge doomed to fail, Robin decides to rub salt in the aching egos of her bosses by willingly accepting the case.

Little does Robin know the downword spiral her action would result in..

Immediately she's paired off with her new patient a bitter and apathetic Ai refering to itself as Al-an, his file pointing to a dangerous habits of viweing humans as an inferior, chaotic, destructive species and even statistically warned them eventually man's artificial intelligence would someday turn on them.

Instantly Robin sees a challenge and sets to work, but after a few weeks of Al-an being utterly counter productive and unresponsive to her attempts to socialize with the cryptic AI, in short much prying and Al-an fighting her every step of the way in terms of her bonding attempts.

But when Al-an finally cracks spiraling into a traumatic and chaotic breakdown.

Robin realizes she's not just dealing with a normal case, the Ai is not only a volatile asshole but also a mourning alien consciousness preserved by artificial intelligence, an actual entity hiding opposed to artificial intelligence, once stationed within the remains of a downed alien space vessel previously seized and supposedly discovered by Alterra corp and salvaged in hopes of producing a new advanced Artificial intelligence prototype.

Unfortunately Alterra either wants their perfected prototype or they want the out of control AI distroyed…

Things get sticky from here, as Robin still kinda wants that sweet success.. Neh.. And she does want to rub her success in her superior's faces.

And Al-an? This AI has other plans..

Deeming his new therepist/ not friend ( he's a tsundere let him live damn it!)'s high tech futuristic home prime artificial realestate, the AI has fled out of her containment PDA and infected her home's virtual database, replacing the once outdated systems with his own presence, having found solace in fact that he not only can actively control mechanisms throught her home, feed her Trivalve and lock door, but also access visual feeds and see a world he was stripped of millinias ago.

Unfortunately this spells trouble for Xeno works as things quickly escalate as the now possesive AI announces he has imprinted on the home and its occupants and stubbornly declares he will stay there just as Alterra begins to demand their prototype back and send agents to retrieve the missing asset.

Mostly a comedy but also a wholesome drama, romance because Robin learns that being an assholish loner all the time gets lonely and maybe her bosses are not actually her enemy. And Al-an learns not the over feed Robin's pets or turn the water cold while she is in the shower…or blow up unfamiliar vehicles entering her driveway.

And we'd get cheesy wholesome feels because Frankly everyone kinda just needs a hug even if Al-an acts like he doesn't ; w;

#al an #robin ayou #al an x robin #robin/al an #alternate universe #Artificial Au #Comedy #Soft fic #I reposed this here because i spent three hours looking for it dam it #Al-an screeches evertime a squirrel enters the lawn #sbz #Short au

[bumblebeeappletree]

It's no secret we're not huge lawn fans at Epic Gardening - I don't have one in my yard, @Jacques in the Garden doesn't in his, and Chris DOES have a lawn...that she created herself and that includes NO turf grass, while providing all of the traditional benefits of a lawn space. In this video she'll go over 3 different alternatives for those of you in colder climates.

00:00 - Intro

01:08 - Benefits Of Covering The Ground

01:53 - 1. Cover Crop

03:43 - 2. Low-growing Perennials

07:13 - 3. Turfgrass Lawn Alternative

10:35 - Outro

IN THIS VIDEO

→ GardenStraw: https://bit.ly/3O4XlS1

Available from many seed providers:

→ Buckwheat

→ Borage

→ Sweet alyssum

→ Winter field peas

→ Native wildflower seeds (buy from a local source)

→ Clover (Microclover, Red clover, Crimson clover, White Dutch clover)

→ Self heal

→ Chamomile

→ Yarrow

Perennial ground covers available from most garden centres:

→ Lamb’s ear (Stachys byzantina)

→ Mediterranean creeping thyme (Thymus longicaulis)

→ Creeping thyme, multiple species and varieties of Thymus praecox and Thymus serpyllum

→ Wooly thyme (Thymus praecox subs. britannicus)

→ Alpine Strawberry (Fragaria vesca)

→ Bugleweed (Ajuga reptans)

→ Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)

→ Redwood sorrel (Oxalis oregana)

→Wild ginger (Asarum canadense)

→ Bulbs: Crocus, Galanthus (snowdrops), Fritillaria, Narcissus (daffodil)

#epic gardening #solarpunk #gardening #lawn #cold climate #ground cover #Cover Crop #Low-growing Perennials #Turfgrass Lawn Alternative #turfgrass #Youtube #alternative lawn #lawn alternatives #anti lawn

[urbansoulfarmer]

Before and after pictures. I planted 3 types of clover seeds to fill the dirt areas. It actually blends well with the grass after a mow.

#clovers not lawns #native grass only #cover crop #urbansoulfarmer #alternative style

[dailypokemoncrochet]

#739 Crabrawler

I love this guy. Looks like he's winding up a punch and saying "Why I oughta" like Popeye

#pokemon #crochet #amigurumi #crabrawler #pokeamidex #put em up put em up!! #punch punch punch!! #poqueuemon #alternatively is like an old man shaking fist at the whippersnappers on the lawn #pokemon crochet

[anipgarden]

Ani Reviews: A Step-by-Step Guide to a Florida Native Yard

I promised you guys a review and here it is. I've never really done a book review before but I'm doing my best to make this Coherent and Helpful.

[Photo ID: a book, titled A Step-by-Step Guide to a Florida Native Yard by Ginny Stibolt and Marjorie Shropshire.]

Out of all the books I checked out from the library this round, I started with this one because it was the shortest out of all of them--if we don't count the appendix and index, its 101 pages long. You can read where I sort of live blogged a portion of this read here.

I think its a pretty good read! It's definitely a lot more relevant if you are the home owner and most directly in charge of landscaping decisions and such. It gives a bit of advice on how to handle making similar changes in an HOA neighborhood, and provides pointers and resources to other books that can also be helpful in the journey to make your landscape a wildlife-friendly habitat. It focuses on Florida specifically, as denoted by the title, and will frequently remind the reader that gardening in Florida is vastly different from gardening anywhere else. So whether you've been a Florida resident all your life, or are planning on making a move on down here, this book can be a helpful resource if you want to transform some or even all of your yard into a habitat.

After the introduction, the book is separated into seven major sections referred to as Steps. There's Assess Your Property, Plan for Drainage and Stormwater Sequestration, Install Trees, Plant Shrubs, Working with Herbaceous Plants, Build a Wild or Natural Area, and Create Spaces for Human Use. If you're more interested in one part than the others, you can definitely skip around to find what you're looking for. I will say, the Drainage and Stormwater section made my head spin a bit.

I will say this: I don't know if the writers ever fully decided if they wanted this book to be targeted towards those who are already gung-ho about native plants and itching to transform their landscape, or to people who are just beginning to dip their toe into the idea. Overall though, it was a nice and informative read, and the illustrations inside are lovely.

#ani reviews #ani rambles #out of queue #honestly like this book was a nice source of inspo that would inspire a transformed yard FOR ME #however if someone isn't already interested in native gardening I don't think its gonna push them into it #if all the talk about complicated drainage systems doesn't scare them off then honestly like #the alternative solutions they offer for lawns aren't... detailed on much #i would really love to find a book that focused on alternative lawn groundcovers for Florida specifically that targeted the concerns #i find that most people have #like 'can this hold up to kids playing soccer? to dog activities? if I roll my trashcan over it to get it to the curb is it gonna die on me #because like this book recommends dune sunflower as an altenrative to turf grass but even in the appendix section it doesn't mention if it #can handle being stepped on at all #it does say frogfruit is a good turf grass substitute but also like #frogfruit sunshine mimosa and twinflower are the other 3 it suggests forth and theyre ALL butterfly hostplants #and while the possibility of there being bugs in a turf lawn is far from an impossibility idk the idea of stepping on caterpillars icks me #*out. like even if ur not barefoot #and i know my mom and one of my other friends' first concerns would be 'would snakes hide in it' and idk if thats like #a Fringe Concern that most people don't worry about but I've never seen anyone address it when talking about alternative lawns #i am getting off topic #im ending the tags here byebye

[grifflake]

Mediterranean Landscape in Los Angeles Photo of a large mediterranean drought-tolerant and full sun backyard gravel flower bed in summer.

#los angeles living #edible gardening #low water #kurapia #alternative lawn #sage

[pedrovallentin]

• Song of Songs

We're reborn in the middle of Eden, so fruitful

I open the eyes of my heart; they became my new vision

Hell is paradise; this is not a decision

But my tainted heart will honor my past derisions

I say this with precision

-

We will always have snakes surrounding us

Even when it seems everything is on fire

There's no reason to worry or hide

When there's so much beauty to admire

-

I recite myself in a song

The Song of Songs

I recite myself in a song

The Song of Songs

I recite it all by myself

The Song of Songs

Damage is done and you're gone

Damage is done and you're gone

Damage is done and you're gone

God brought me a new trade

Ruben's brushes paint the reverie

And my admiration will not fade

I turn hell into a paradise

The Sun, the father, will provide the light

As the Earth nourishes it, it gains immense power

Your strength comes strongly and with precision

It's true, without deceit, powerful, I can envision it

I recite myself in a song

The Song of Songs

I recite myself in a song

The Song of Songs

I recite it all by myself

The Song of Songs

Damage is done and you're gone

Damage is done and you're gone

Damage is done and you're gone

I'm free from the dark arts,

which were slowly killing me

Chanting a hymn of myself, sonically

Dark and yet so lovely

There will be a thousand snakes

but we won't fear it

Saying another grace, trying to save the day

Be welcome all the next angels who want to stay

I say what I say

I celebrate myself in a song

The Song of Songs

I celebrate myself in a song

The Song of Songs

I celebrate myself, in the Song of Songs

In the Song of Songs

Damage is done and I'm burnt

Damage is done and I'm burnt

Damage is done and I'm finally burnt

I sing the Song of Songs

What's done is done

And I dare not modify

Pedro Vallentin

#photography #photoshoot #rio de janeiro #boy #vintage #artists on tumblr #fotografia #poetry #retro photography #alternative #fantasy #urban #film #artistic photography #grass lawn #garden #brazilian artists #my lyrics #lyrics #lyric posting #music #my thoughts #writing #my writing #wizard #composer #singer #songwriter