Choose plants that are native to your region. You will be surprised how well they do.
I always find this to be crazy with grass. It is so damn difficult to grow a nice lawn but grass randomly grows out of rocks in the woods.
You could try sowing grass native to your area. Or, better yet, kill your lawn: https://piped.video/watch?v=xYdLfkJcfok
I’m sure you have just as much nice grass as that woods does. It’s just spread out (like in the woods) between the not so nice stuff because grass sucks and isn’t meant to exist, much less grow as a constantly-pruned monoculture, in most of the areas it’s used :)
I try to keep my lawn on the brink of grass death because grass is a worthless spoiled brat, constantly demanding resources to look remotely ok (and so I don’t have to mow it). The clover and violet I planted in it makes it look green with zero effort, though, so the city doesn’t get on my ass about it.
if you don’t want to mow it get a robot
Lawl.
Why on earth would I spend a ton of money on a robot to maintain something I’m against, when I can plant things native to my region which do far far better for basically zero cost and have a positive impact on my area?
Grass is not meant to be in my area, that’s -why it dies-. I’m not going to prop that up with watering, fertilizer, and more mowing and shit just because of some bullshit social standard that makes no sense.
My city doesn’t mind, so good enough for literally everyone.
The American obsession with lawns is honestly fucking bizarre
The same species of grass?
Lawn grass isn’t native, for one thing.
well the chlorine in tap water is pretty bad for plants…
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This should make us all very very afraid of what that water is doing to US!
(Especially if/when it is colored - last year my water became orange and started giving everyone I knew that drank it mouth soreness, I only wish I was kidding, and ofc it was traced to a corporation found illegally dumping toxic chemicals into the water reclamation systems, thus exposing the entire city to those effects. No, they never faced any legal consequences beyond the slightest slap on the wrist iirc, why would they? That is what finally tipped the scales and helped me realize: the USA is not a first-world nation anymore.)
Don’t let me tell you how to live your life, but if my water turns orange I’m not drinking it.
I mean, not directly no - we boiled it first - but you gotta drink something, sometime.
What worried me more is not when the screw-up is so easily detectable, but when it goes unnoticed, like the permanent damage done to the residents of Flint, MI, or all those toxic chemicals caused by the multiple train derailments, where the company men tried to pay/threaten/whatever people to say that they were not sick.
Company profits >>>>
human health & safety.
The tap water killing plants is more commonly the chemicals put in it intentionally to keep it clean/stop us from getting sick and fluoride to keep our mouths cleaner
Only if you like more mundane (yet accurate) explanations:-P.
Plants outdoors don’t get water with nearly the amount of shit in it that tap water has.
Yes, even in Scotland.
Indoor plants are almost all tropical and adapted to grow under 3 canopies of treetops. They work in our house because the tiny bit of sun coming in the window is good enough.
Being tropical, they need a fair bit of water and the chemicals in tap water are often too much. I use rainwater, but you can set your pitcher out for 24-hours and get good results.
The stuff you see growing in cracks outdoors is almost certainly local and adapted.
@The_Picard_Maneuver joke’s on you (or them). I always water them with tap water.
Outdoor plants are all burly and manly and have big delts. Inside plants are weak and wimpy, wimpy, wimpy.
seems like yall have some horrible tap water
No, dracaena species in particular are sensitive to minerals and fluoride in tap water. I water my dracaena with bleach sterilized rainwater (after a livingroom-wide leaf spot outbreak a couple years ago). They’re just fussy.
I just left dirt in a pot after planting cherry tomatoes and parsley on my balcony, it magically grew flat parsley like crazy. I didn’t even tend to it for a long time, still grows like a madman.
People certainly are polishing this meme to a high sheen. Anyway, tell it to the pothos ivy.
Much like humans
Outdoor plants are all burly and manly and hefty, hefty, hefty. Inside plants are weak and wimpy, wimpy, wimpy.
