AI6YR BenLive posting the State Of The Garden. Fellow citizens, it is lemon/lime season. For some reason, there are more lemons in Southern California backyards than anyone eats. The only solution is to make lemonade! 1/x
The pineapple, as usual, is extremely confused by why it is growing in such a cold climate, and insists it be returned to Hawaii. Only one other pineapple top is currently also surviving this atrocity. #gardening
In the aquaculture buckets, the goldfish are happy to have lots of duckweed, finally, as temperatures are again warm enough for duckweed to expand. #StateOfTheGarden
For once, the barbarians at our gates -- the mint--no longer has smothered all other plants in the aquaponics beds. #StateOfTheGarden
ZahmbieND@ai6yr Mint can be super aggressive! My dad once planted some in a flowerbed, and a few years later it was choking out even the grass outside of the flowerbed. He ended up transplanting a few mint plants into a pot, and sprayed the whole area with herbicide to get rid of the mint so he could plant some flowers in its place. Now his mint plants stay in the pots so they're easy to contain.
Zimmie@ZahmbieND @ai6yr It’s actually illegal in some areas of the US to plant mint and certain other herbs (oregano is a big one) in the ground because they’re so invasive.
JWarner@Jeanniewarner @bob_zim @ai6yr Hmm. I didn't know it was considered invasive anywhere, but I guess both of those make sense (my dad has had a similar battle with blackberries, which almost tore his fence down and tried to take over his vegetable garden).
Luckily I'm in West Texas, where it's dry enough that almost nothing grows without you deliberately watering it, so most invasive plant species stay contained to your property. The main invasive plants we worry about are bindweed and tumbleweeds, both of which will grow on roadsides (from the rain runoff) and in irrigated fields, so they can actually spread along highways without being planted intentionally.
Luckily I'm in West Texas, where it's dry enough that almost nothing grows without you deliberately watering it, so most invasive plant species stay contained to your property. The main invasive plants we worry about are bindweed and tumbleweeds, both of which will grow on roadsides (from the rain runoff) and in irrigated fields, so they can actually spread along highways without being planted intentionally.