peds

The video of the fella nibbling on either a young lad or a remarkably androgynous young woman's ear? Yeah, pretty weird. You'd hope there's a reasonable explanation... but it doesn't seem likely, does it.

Well yeah, those big long tap roots suck all sorts of things from deeper in the soil than many other plants their size, so they are great to have around even if just used for chop and drop to feed other plants nearby. Especially on soil in poor health, broken ground, that sort of thing. A surplus of pissenlit roots can also be turned into root beer as long as another favourite "weed", burdock, is available in roughly the same quantity. In fact roots, leaves, stems, buds, flowers, and seeds are all edible and, prepared appropriately, delicious. They are also, predictably, more chock-full of nutrients than other leaves you'd be eating a similar amount of. Can replace frisee, endive, radicchio, and other substantial leaves in salads. Use with a similar volume of green herbs to make pesto or salsa verde. Cook with peas and bacon or wild mushrooms for an exciting side dish. Well worth having around.

We are going to have to agree to disagree on this one I'm afraid. Personally, I find a square of plain lawn visually unappealing and detrimental to the overall aesthetic of a garden, and I don't understand the obsession with maintaining it, no matter how small and no matter how extensive your other meadow may be. But that's okay, you can't see eye to eye with everyone all the time, and at least noone got their feelings hurt.

Yeah, except that, taking into account the whole insect apocalypse thing... there really isn't plenty of room elsewhere. The amount of land wasted globally by lawns, and both the carbon and ecological footprints required for their upkeep, is immense. Swap your lawn for a wildflower meadow, or at the very least: allow the wildflowers that also enjoy your lawn to grow there, and enjoy the best of both worlds.

I mean, the question still stands. Lawns are greatly improved by the addition of daisies and dandelions. Why bother your arse?

Why on earth would you want to do that? Great plant for any location. Pack enough of them into one spot and they work as great ground cover to keep the weeds down.

Regarding insect apocalypse: I'm doing my bit. There's a few thousand dandelion seeds just been mixed into the top layer of compost of the trays for around 6000 bedding plants. 🥷🌱🌳🐝🌍

You can espalier them along wires instead of a wall, out in the open. Cordons, too.

It is possible rapalaman was describing a theoretical situation.

Then lovingly frosted with glucose.

Sure hope it was the right guy!

Yeah, pretty annoying that sort of thing, to be honest. Last place I lived I had a whole pile of raspberry canes, I'd prune them, feed them, try my hardest to keep the snails off them and discourage the birds from eating the fruit, but it was always a battle to get any decent yield. But the best, healthiest, most productive plant... a self-seeded unloved bastard child growing from a tiny crack in the tarmac next to the shed. Never fed, never pruned, just working it's way up through the bitumen without a care in the world.

Dig a bit of soil out from under a healthy tree, mix it 50/50 with compost, and throw in a handful of chicken pellets too.

Leave it where it is for this season, you'd stress it out a bit too much if you tried to move it at this late stage. It'd be easily enough done if you took a decent sized bit of ground with it, but you would set it back a bit. It doesn't look like it's in the way there too much. Build a little barrier around it to protect it from unintended traffic (stones, sticks, etc.), feed it little and often (compost tea once a week or fortnight, or occasional top dressing with chicken manure and seaweed pellets), and make sure it doesn't dry out. Wait until the next dormant season, December to March, and dig it up then, either into a pot or it's intended location. Where would you like it to live eventually? Depending on the ground you want to put it in, there's nothing stopping you from preparing the soil now. You'd not need to do much if it's moving into an already healthy garden, but you could think about planting a deep-rooting green manure in the area to add organic material and to mine nutrients from further down in the soil, or you could mulch the area with well-aged and rotted woodchip to encourage fungal networks to develop. New ground or poor soil (former building sites, new estates, reclaimed ground, etc.) would greatly benefit from being inoculated with soil biota from a healthy woodland ecosystem: just steal a shovelful of soil from a decent forest (probably technically illegal, so be a little furtive about it...), mix it about in a few shovels of peat-free compost or aged manure and woodchip, and dig it gently into the top few inches of the intended spot for the rowan. Seems like a lot of effort to go to now, but it will lay the groundwork for a prime planting location next dormant season.

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