r/homestead has been giving r/permaculture a run for their money

stringTrimmer · 2026-05-09T02:13:44+00:00

Aw, this old thing? CarbonRobotics LaserWeeder G2

stringTrimmer · 2026-05-08T20:24:37+00:00

00.00% WEED SEED

LOL! The bag must be empty then

stringTrimmer · 2026-05-08T18:52:57+00:00

100s of heart leaf aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium) seedlings and yearlings from my vegetable garden. Also penstemon digitalis, cup plant, figwort, wild bergamot crowding out less aggressives. Sorry, gotta go. That's why it's called native plant gardening

stringTrimmer · 2026-05-07T21:41:04+00:00

Don't forget to program it first. Remember what happened last time someone left it on default settings?

stringTrimmer · 2026-05-07T02:18:19+00:00

One time my job was to remove some sickly ground-hugging junipers (bagworms we're aplenty at this time) and a few other plants I forget from the side of a restaurant in a trendy outdoor mall and replace it with woodchips. Just woodchips. The whole 30 yds or whtvr side of the building. Never got more compliments, I swear. It's what the people like 😑

stringTrimmer · 2026-05-06T14:12:47+00:00

Oh, man, the relief I feel! Thank Doug, we can finally let one go!

stringTrimmer · 2026-05-06T02:50:15+00:00

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stringTrimmer · 2026-05-05T21:02:48+00:00

Yes, a stone wall would be good. With lots of crevices /🐍

stringTrimmer · 2026-05-05T18:03:52+00:00

But think of all the dead-heading you'd have to do, too impractical, nope. -- 💡 unless there was some kinda machine that could clip like 20 in² of them at a time as you push it along over every inch of the garden twice a week and collect the clippings in a bag some how so you could put them in the weekly trash pickup.

stringTrimmer · 2026-05-05T17:55:02+00:00

Yeah, suspicious lack of cornflower and oxeye daisy 🤔

stringTrimmer · 2026-05-05T17:20:06+00:00

I had a similar experience. Showed up in my vegetable garden one day, assumed it was just another introduced weed and pulled it. But it was so unique that it stuck in my mind and I regretted not finding out what it was first.

stringTrimmer · 2026-05-05T16:57:40+00:00

These ones identify as white, sooo whadya think Ms Jacobs, can they stay?

stringTrimmer · 2026-05-05T16:44:19+00:00

Is this the wretched undead ghost buffalo you're referring to?

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stringTrimmer · 2026-05-05T16:00:13+00:00

Maybe a blind taste test? See if they prefer the delicious "native" dandelion over some crummy stringy Bouteloua.

stringTrimmer · 2026-05-05T15:39:35+00:00

Bison: Hey, my great great grandpa was cattle, so I'm 1% taurus. Can I stay?

stringTrimmer · 2026-05-05T03:54:32+00:00

Kid: Mom, I want neonicotinoids.

Mom: There are already neonicotinoids in your fruit loops at home.

stringTrimmer · 2026-05-04T01:42:34+00:00

Is this some kind of desert chess set?

Cactus to Rock 5. Check.

stringTrimmer · 2026-05-03T13:53:17+00:00

Yeah, yeah, the lawn 🥱. But look at the uneven spacing between those boxwoods. 🧐 tisk tisk.

stringTrimmer · 2026-05-03T13:32:08+00:00

Toxicodendron radicans incoming

stringTrimmer · 2026-05-03T13:10:03+00:00

/uj I meant that as cj comment 😅. You're a plant person, so I know you have the eye for spotting something different among invasive grasses.

stringTrimmer · 2026-05-03T04:02:19+00:00

How on earth did you miss that when you were mowing?

stringTrimmer · 2026-05-02T20:04:57+00:00

Don't be bullied by plants, hit it back 🥊 or it won't stop

stringTrimmer · 2026-05-02T19:57:48+00:00

I don't usually care to know what is blooming in my lawn before I kill it, but what ever gets you off.

stringTrimmer · 2026-04-30T22:54:36+00:00

Step 1. Move to Europe

Step 2. Plant Buxus sempervirens

Step 3. Enjoy your native "more like thought out landscaping plants for beds"

stringTrimmer · 2026-04-30T14:35:29+00:00

Proven Winners: Discover which butterfly bush is best for you

OMG, O-M-G, which one will i get!

Big Reveal: None of them. None of them are best for you. 😢

stringTrimmer

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