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I used to have them in my own yard. My newer place doesn't have any and I wish I did!
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They really didn't spread much.
(☞ ಠ_ಠ)☞ Sure.
But maybe keep your "non-spreading" thistle to yourself if you can.
If you think I'm crazy, you should know that some people even make tea out of thistle.
And dandelion. That's mostly from them being everywhere and easy to grow. And hard to do anything else with.
Humans would do anything for extra calories or nutrients once upon a time.
A plants only a weed if you decide it. If you’ve got a good lawn and anti weed mulch, doesn’t matter much what your neighbors doing.
The city stopped spraying for broadleaf unless the field is covered by more than 60% or something, the median beside my house is littered with them, but my front and backyard maybe gets 2 a week to pluck.
Not true for tight small city yards.
I would need a layer of mulch deeper than any of my in ground plants could handle.
I have exactly that, a 1” layer of straw mulch protected my raised garden beds. You can also use biodegradable “plastic” mulch too.
I don't have raised beds
You don’t need raised beds to mulch them?
But then the mulch won't stop the weeds unless I do it deep enough to hurt my plants. I don't understand why you are so adamant that works for you with a completely different setup is so important for me to do.
That’s…. Not how mulch works. Raised beds do nothing to prevent unwanted plants. Not all of my yard is in raised planters either, I was only sharing some extra information to try and have a convo.
Sorry, you didn’t seem to understand how “weeds” spread nor how to protect your yard from them, so I thought I would share some knowledge.
But apparently you just want to yell that your neighbor has “weeds”.
Anyways, there’s more benefits to mulch than just weed suppression, so you should be doing it regardless.
Dude, you’re the one bitching about their neighbour having weeds, you understand the only reason why you would also have weeds is because you’re lazy and neglecting your yard… yeah? I was trying to have a nice conversation and share some knowledge, but you just want to be miserable dick and blame someone else for not wanting to do yard work.
Mulch your damn yard and don’t complain that your neighbor has weeds, what’s a weed to you isn’t to them, as the user you were talking to was also saying.
You posted on a public forum, people are going to engage your comments, I tried to, you argued for some strange reason, now we are here.
I only became hostile because you were originally a jerk dude.
Dont want to have a conversation on a public forum, than don’t fucking comment? You’re only being a jerk because the advice was basically “take care of your yard” and “leave your neighbors alone”.
Yeah the truth fucking hurts to hear sometimes dude, don’t need to be a bitter fucking dick about it. Didn’t want to talk, than don’t fucking respond you jerk.
Also, thistle has medicinal uses, so yeah people grow it and therefore it’s not a weed.
What do you think a weed is? It’s an undesirable plant, as explained already, what’s desirable is different to each person, so fuck off about your neighbours shit and deal with yours lmfao.
Wait how is my yard dry and dusty and also full of weeds?