Hedgehogs love leaves. And fuck yes do I want some rodents in my yard. I love bunnies. Why would I not want cool ass beetles? And I’m sure the little lizard wouldn’t mind as well.
Fuck the monoculture you call grass. I have a local wildflower yard.
You’re making a whole lot of assumptions about me here, which I’ll ignore.
Here are some reasons why I think this is a bad idea for many people. My good friend and neighbor just has rodents (mice in this case) do $7000 in damage to his car by chewing holes in his wiring harness. Also depending on your climate, said leaves are wonderful homes for cockroaches to breed, which I assume you don’t want unless you are insane. This was a major issue in Florida if I didn’t immediately rake of the vast bed of oak leaves. I have no problem with “good” rodents. Rabbits, squirrels, chipmonks, headehogs (are these even in the US? I’ve never see one of these anywhere I’ve live), etc. It’s is the mice and rats that can and will ruin your stuff and can majorly screw up your life. Good luck with your leaves.
I love danger noodles. Especially since they’re not dangerous where I live. I will not commit to making my yard be void of life because I am incapable of using flea shampoo. I will also stay far away from wild animals, like you should.
Had a squirrel in my garden earlier today. Invasive bastard…
Could do with encouraging more wildflowers in the open area of my garden that has kinda become a lawn. I put down a meadow grass seed mix and clover. Not sure if much clover really grew though. Ground had been under concrete for decades that I removed after buying the house.
Daisies and dandelions seem like good choices to try and grow there, add some colour and they can usually manage being trimmed shortish too. Don’t have a lawnmower but my partner complains if I don’t strim it a few times a year. Tbh the pathway probably needs it now but leaving the rest over winter.
If you ecological invasiveness, which is an issue with squirrels in some countries, thats fair. But theres ways you can work around that and still have a nice, healthy yard.
Well it should be healthier than when I moved in as it has now been free of concrete for a little over a year. But the open space in the middle currently only really has grass growing in it, only a very small amount of clover seemed to have grown. The areas that do have clover growing are the bits that are still green while the rest of it has bits of grass going a little yellow.
Not 100% sure, but it looks like it probably dried out too much over summer for the clover to survive. In the more shaded patches the grass is nice and green and there is usually more clover to be seen. Or around edges, which seemed to dry out a bit less over summer. UK for any context if that helps. Its been soaking wet for a few months now so at least the grass grew back.
On the healthiness of your yard: Dry patches are fine, there are plants for that too. The important part is leaving it alone. I would recommend to mow maybe once a year max. I know, it gets real logn, but that way nature can work wonders. The glass and clover root network will widen and sprawl and fill that space in. And if there is still too much dry dirt there, then other plants will take over. Clover is already more resistant than grass, other weeds are even more resistant. Do an experiment, see what happens. I recommend looking for local dry area plants. We have Heide for that, not sure what it is in english, I’m a german native.
Could you define the weather region, local biome and Surrounding biology? I can not precisely help you with that otherwise.
Hedgehogs love leaves. And fuck yes do I want some rodents in my yard. I love bunnies. Why would I not want cool ass beetles? And I’m sure the little lizard wouldn’t mind as well.
Fuck the monoculture you call grass. I have a local wildflower yard.
You’re making a whole lot of assumptions about me here, which I’ll ignore.
Here are some reasons why I think this is a bad idea for many people. My good friend and neighbor just has rodents (mice in this case) do $7000 in damage to his car by chewing holes in his wiring harness. Also depending on your climate, said leaves are wonderful homes for cockroaches to breed, which I assume you don’t want unless you are insane. This was a major issue in Florida if I didn’t immediately rake of the vast bed of oak leaves. I have no problem with “good” rodents. Rabbits, squirrels, chipmonks, headehogs (are these even in the US? I’ve never see one of these anywhere I’ve live), etc. It’s is the mice and rats that can and will ruin your stuff and can majorly screw up your life. Good luck with your leaves.
Akshually rabbits aren’t rodents…
Of course I entirely agree with your post and am just being anal
Fine, then I love squirrels.
Hope you love snakes and fleas too
I love danger noodles. Especially since they’re not dangerous where I live. I will not commit to making my yard be void of life because I am incapable of using flea shampoo. I will also stay far away from wild animals, like you should.
Had a squirrel in my garden earlier today. Invasive bastard…
Could do with encouraging more wildflowers in the open area of my garden that has kinda become a lawn. I put down a meadow grass seed mix and clover. Not sure if much clover really grew though. Ground had been under concrete for decades that I removed after buying the house.
Daisies and dandelions seem like good choices to try and grow there, add some colour and they can usually manage being trimmed shortish too. Don’t have a lawnmower but my partner complains if I don’t strim it a few times a year. Tbh the pathway probably needs it now but leaving the rest over winter.
What makes you insult your furry neighbor?
They are invasive
If you ecological invasiveness, which is an issue with squirrels in some countries, thats fair. But theres ways you can work around that and still have a nice, healthy yard.
Well it should be healthier than when I moved in as it has now been free of concrete for a little over a year. But the open space in the middle currently only really has grass growing in it, only a very small amount of clover seemed to have grown. The areas that do have clover growing are the bits that are still green while the rest of it has bits of grass going a little yellow.
Not 100% sure, but it looks like it probably dried out too much over summer for the clover to survive. In the more shaded patches the grass is nice and green and there is usually more clover to be seen. Or around edges, which seemed to dry out a bit less over summer. UK for any context if that helps. Its been soaking wet for a few months now so at least the grass grew back.
On the healthiness of your yard: Dry patches are fine, there are plants for that too. The important part is leaving it alone. I would recommend to mow maybe once a year max. I know, it gets real logn, but that way nature can work wonders. The glass and clover root network will widen and sprawl and fill that space in. And if there is still too much dry dirt there, then other plants will take over. Clover is already more resistant than grass, other weeds are even more resistant. Do an experiment, see what happens. I recommend looking for local dry area plants. We have Heide for that, not sure what it is in english, I’m a german native.
Could you define the weather region, local biome and Surrounding biology? I can not precisely help you with that otherwise.