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Beautiful!
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My big worry is actually just people using natives and non invasives.
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Seeds are a good idea but I've had a lot better results starting them inside. I start them a week or two ahead of when they would start shooting up outside naturally.
I use a big tray with decent drainage, I moisten the soil first so it's an even moist through the whole thing, put down a layer of seeds on top, put a little bit of most soil over them, just enough to cover them, I put some plastic wrap or a plastic bag over it with some air holes, and let it sit somewhere warm with no direct sunlight for a week. I personally use a seed mat but I know people who put them on top of their fridge or other places that stay a little above 70°
As soon as they germinate you don't NEED the plastic wrap but you can keep it a little longer to keep the soil moist if you want. Once they're an inch or two tall, I divide it all up (if I'm not using a divided tray already) and go plant them in the garden.
This method works with just about anything you wanna plant. It helps to get things started and established inside where it's a controlled environment.
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What's your favorite memory of a patient?
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Is there a Homestar Lemmy? I'm missing this in my life.
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Some people are squirrel handed! Gregor is a weird name.
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This is quoted in my house A LOT
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I know there's a place that composts human remains and that's pretty cool!
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Funny how this works but yet I got diagnosed as an adult THEN my brother got diagnosed haha. We do everything backwards.
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Yeah I think if I just start looking up natives and identifying them that could make for a fun hobby too as well as collecting seeds.
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I work for a private company so I work in a lot of different cities. But I started off with utility locating and found my way here from getting to know people.
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Lmao that's a good one
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Lol yes I told my doc I tried Adderall in high school with a friend and we were both like wow I feel so focused. She then later got diagnosed and I was like yeah, she told me I should get checked out. Turns out there's a reason I felt focused lol.
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I'm just picturing June cleaver speaking jive on an airplane now...
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TIL I hang out with just enough youngins to read this and be like "they like your outfit." It's gotta be the early 20s kids at work that I've caught onto what they're saying lol.
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I've thoroughly enjoyed Bitwarden. Their free version meets my needs but I pay for the paid because I think it's great.
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Oh no! Last time I got that it was because I was wearing crappy work boots. I hope your feet feel better ASAP!
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I saw so many that I went and got checked and I was initiated into the club lmao
Guys, as the person who started no lawns on Reddit (and here) my yard is a disaster lol. I work outside all day and the last thing I want to do when I get home is yard work. That being said, I removed a bunch of invasives from my yard Monday and I'm working on a plan to tackle a corner of my yard the way I've always wanted to in NoLawns style with native plants. I'm always open to suggestions for the Chicago area!
If you're going to plant grass, make it native to your area, wildlife depends on it.
I've seen 2 new awesome resources pop up in the comments this week (I haven't added them to the list yet my personal life is chaos right now). I'd love to know if you guys have come across any other books, websites, videos etc that you find very useful and informative to add to the list. [Here](https://nolawns.wixsite.com/nolawns/native-plants-resources-by-country) is the current list of resources. I'd love to get as many resources as possible outside the US.
Would love to see lists from all over the world!
So happy to see a Sims 2 sub!! I'm really hoping to see r/sims2help migrate over here at some point. Chances this community will include the link they have in their wiki to download the game?
nativegardendesigns.wildones.org
[Here's](https://nativegardendesigns.wildones.org/why-native-plants/) another link to Wild Ones explaining why to choose native plants over non natives. What natives do you have growing?
I run a decent sized sub. I've noticed the last few days that all my sticky posts that say where else you can find us are getting mass reported. I usually have like 6 reports a week. I'm getting a report on every post made that gets the sticky all of a sudden. I just took the word "Lemmy" out and we'll see if that changes. Anyone else noticing something similar if you still have an account?
nativegardendesigns.wildones.org
Obviously these plans aren't inclusive of the entire US but from what I understand they are working on adding even more garden plans to their list. This can be beneficial if you live in any of these towns and would like to have a list or a plan for natives in your own yard and your don't know where to begin.
Just sharing this link since everyone always loves American meadows so much. The only issue I take with them is they sell seed packs that are "native to your area" and some are not. One of our Reddit mods has said he's had great luck with [Pheasant Forever](https://www.pfhabitatstore.com/) as a US based option who focuses on natives for habitat restoration. I've never used them personally but I wanted to drop it as a link since I had never heard of them before.
How many of you make mead? I made my last small batch for Thanksgiving and I've just gotten caught up with life and other hobbies and forgot it existed until I saw this community.
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TLDR; killing off native species as well as their food supply and habitats.
www.slrpnk.net
Let's see if I can get all this link formatting down haha. - [Direct Link](https://slrpnk.net/c/twoxchromosomes) - [Existing Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/twoxchromosomes) - [Requested link style](/c/twoxchromosomes@slrpnk.net) - !twoxchromosomes@slrpnk.net We are not the [Reddit TwoXChromosomes](https://www.reddit.com/r/twoxchromosomes) but we did see that they did not exist here and all the search results happened to be users looking for it so here it is! If anyone from the Reddit 2x wants to mod, inbox me on reddit or lemmy, same username.
www.slrpnk.net
Let's see if I can get all this link formatting down haha. - [Direct Link](https://slrpnk.net/c/nolawns) - [Existing Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/nolawns) - [Requested link style](/c/nolawns@slrpnk.net) - !nolawns@slrpnk.net No lawns has over 150k subs on Reddit and we're currently participating in the reddit protest (and will be depending on how our poll goes). I found slrpnk.net and wanted to bring another bit of No Lawns over to lemmy. Our main goal is to promote native plants over non natives, create a healthier yard for everyone, and enjoy some pretty flowers.
I am currently a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware. I have also authored the New York Times best seller Nature’s Best Hope and I have authored and co-authored additional books such as Bringing Nature Hope, The Living Landscape, and The Nature of Oaks. In addition, I have authored over 100 research publications in my field. I have also founded [Home Grown National Park](https://homegrownnationalpark.org/) which is a grass roots whos mission is: "To regenerate biodiversity and ecosystem function because every human being on this planet needs diverse highly productive ecosystems to survive." [Here](https://nolawns.wixsite.com/nolawns/doug-tallamy-ask-me-anything) is the link to our website with the copy and paste of the AMA and [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/NoLawns/comments/13qkwu4/i_am_doug_tallamy_new_york_times_best_seller/) is the link to the original Reddit AMA. 
Hey all, updated the sidebar description with some links :) I tried to copy the reddit wiki as best I could to a free website so if there's any issues (or continuing the protests) with reddit we still have the information. Edit: Updated sub icon both here and reddit
Well why would I want a boring grass mono culture yard? This is basically how no lawns started. Over on Reddit just over 5 years ago I started no lawns after having a fun conversation with u/suuperdad about changing the boring grass lawn into some thing more native and better for the environment. On a whim I created a subreddit for it and we started with a hand full of people and now we're pretty good sized! With the reddit blackout on, we realized this community needed to be bigger than Reddit. We already started a discord and we have an Instagram (although I'm terrible at updating it) we wanted to reach even more spaces. I found slrpnk on accident but, it seemed to really fit with our theme and here we are! We're anti monoculture, pro natives plants and we love a non traditional yard.
Just as the title asks, what's your dream yard if money and time weren't a concern? Would you have a pond, a prairie, a forest, a food forest or something else?
Cross post from Reddit (yes it's in blackout on the day of posting) by u/FineStein
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