Grass is Greener
Grass is Greener
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TIL clover is a legume. Neat.
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Peanuts too ;)
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As is the locust tree! The one with the huge spikes on it
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I don't understand the dandelion hate. They are puffballs for maybe two weeks tops. The rest of the time they're either invisible or beautiful flowers.
Also, I'm like the only yard with fireflies in my neighborhood.
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I like the smell of yellow dandelions too. Had a lot of those around in the town where I grew up
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My whole property is nutrient void clay. Its greener where I piss.
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Daikon radishes. They grow in about anything and are especially good at clay busting. Grow a bunch then let them die back. Till them in and repeat until you get enough environment for the worms to take over the tilling. You can keep piling on radishes with something like clover and peas to add some nitrogen fixers. This is more a pasture revitalization technique, but if you don't mind being the weird radish guy for two or three years (depending on local conditions), you could do it on a smaller scale for a lawn
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So it is indeed greener where you water. Try the body thing next and let us know.
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Are there clover lawns?
Oh,yup. Wow, they're popular.
Okay
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you might like the movie: Cloverfield
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Just finished cloverfield.
Not a single goddam clover in the whole goddam movie.
Good movie though.
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That's a bit in the weeds of gardening technique. If OP wants a simpler documentary about living with cloverfields, check out 10 Cloverfield Lane.
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I planted one!!!
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Oh wowwwww.
Was it grass before and you had to tear that up first?
Did the Clovers propagate by themselves after you put in a few patches?
Tell me as much of the story as possible if you have the time and inclination.
Also, do you take naps on the clovers and does it stain your clothes?
It's difficult for me to imagine having a clover lawn and not sleeping on it.
You just go outside and grab some clovers to cook sometimes and stuff haha.
Do pests live in there?
I want to live under the clover roof.
Oh it looks so nice.
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I actually have serious doubts that plants grow better in the complex soup of fats and proteins that a body turns into. In fact I’m pretty sure I remember reading that the romanticized idea of turning your body into a tree after you die basically doesn’t work for this reason!
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Biologist here, the body itself isn't what grows the "greener grass". It's just the start of a long biological process that will lead to ecological growth.
A tree isn't going to feed directly off of the body. But the decay process will provide nutrients to the tree. We're talking about insects and fungus at various levels of the process here. You can look up things like the Trophic Levels and Nutrient Cycles for more details on this whole process.
TLDR would be that the corpse floods the area with nutrients and maybe even kills off the plants with over abundance of nitrogen, but then fungus and bugs move in, then bigger bugs and small animals, and so on and then better plant systems. It's kind of neat.
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That's dope! I can become compost! I hope my leftovers get used by a tree. Trees are cool.
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Wait, clover is a legume? How tiny are their peas?
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average size. actually if they were any bigger it would be uncomfortable.
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