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we’re pulling up on Mojito 3
Good thing I packed limes for this trip. I’ve already got them loaded into the shuttle
Love that this implies that it happened at least three times lmao
And here comes bamboo with a steel chair!!!
I’d have taken it for more of a kendo fan in the hc matches
As long as it’s not alien conscious bamboo as in the Semiosis trilogy
First time seeing a Semiosis reference in the wild. Excellent series.
Probably actually lichen. They can grow without soils and indeed are a precursor to soil. No alien planet without life is going to have soil in it because soil is a living thing.
Presumably there would be soil since the scenario envisaged is of them terraforming the planet.
Lichen for untold millennia, then we will have enough soil for the mint to take over.
Somewhere there’s a joke about a Raspberry Pi running Linux Mint in there
Sir this is a
Wen…Lemmy, so yeah okay, carry on then.
This is the Raspberry Mint planet, great for Kombucha
Mint planet would smell so good though
Authentic Space Mint.
Kudzu would win this fight.
Add horseradish and bamboo, and that planet is finished.
Add a single capitalist and the planet can be rejuvenated to its original barren state
“No it won’t! Everything is better than ever! All that environmental disaster all around you is a Liberal/ Democrat/ Progressive/ Socialist/ Communist/ Ukranian/ European hoax! YOU’RE ALL OUT TO GET ME! I HAVE GUNS!” - That Capitalist
sprinkle a little bermuda grass and we’ll terraform this planet in no time
Bermuda grass? Then we’ll be needing Dandelions.
The origin story of Mintberry Crunch
Never bring English Ivy to another planet, worst mistake of my life
Fucking mint, never get rid of it.
However, thinking about blackberries, the only solution is fire.
I don’t know which one wins, as long as they win far away from me…
I don’t think there was ever a version of Mint that would run on a Blackberry.
You want FEWER blackberries?
The heck is wrong with you?
Himalayan blackberries are a huge issue here in the PNW. They are imported and invasive. Also delicious! But they annihilate native plants.
Just outside of Portland, I got to take a field trip in my senior year eco-science class to go cut down blackberry bushes. They gave us machetes!
TIL about a PNW problem!
A few months ago I went to Portland for the first time and I was so happy to find a huge patch of wild blackberries just outside my hotel. They were delicious! I had no idea they were an invasive and bothersome problem!
I’ve lived in NJ and SC, and in both places it is kind of rare and special to find wild blackberries.
There are also native blackberries! But most of what you see in the valleys are the Himalayan variety.
The native blackberries do not form a hedge or grow on top of things. They’re more of a ground cover. The berries are smaller, and in my opinion, tastier. They have much smaller stems as well.
Yeah we went and spent a week up in the Seattle area couple years ago camping and the campsite we were at had blackberries all over it. We’re from an area that these things don’t grow and so my kids were super excited and spent the entire camping trip picking blackberries and eating them.
I think they want fewer brambles, because blackberries are neither the most-voluminous nor the most-annoying part of the bush.
Always plant your mint in a pot. Preferably a suspended one.
Specialists poring over the first draft list of plants and animals to be ferried over: “Are you crazy?!”
Children Of Time Book 5 is going to be weird
I guess there’s gotta be some uplifted plants out there. They’ll probably have to fight the grey fungus.
You just reminded me to check on the 4th book, and it has been released. Thank you kind sir or madame (or uplifted rat).
Currently listening to 4. It’s fun and weird, as always
Having had both in my garden, mint will win.
Did they mean brambles maybe?
Mint vs red raspberries - winner is mint Mint vs black raspberries - those stabby raspberries win every time
Probably, I was going to say European blackberry but that is also known as brambles apparently.
Yeah I think it’s the same thing, blackberry is the berry and brambles is the thicket?
in a fight between mint and lemon balm (different mint), which wins?
i have a giant pot that has been full of lemon balm for the last, uh, i don’t know how long i’ve lived here it’s been a while but i like picking some and steeping some and making the room smell good. out by the trash we also have a pot of mint because the mint smell overpowers the trash smell
Blackberries would probably learn to coexist with mint if they can share enoug root space.
We have 3 kinds of mint and I’ve already pulled fistfuls out of the ground where they’re encroaching on neighboring plants. We planted it in the garden next to our big oak tree for our daughter to nibble when she’s out there with her friend, but it’s probably the last season we’ll keep it.
Bold to assume the mint gives you a choice in whether you “keep” it.
I’m a masochist. I have mint on one side of the house and wisteria on the other. I should round it out with bamboo and blackberries. Make my home into a rhizome cage match.
Glass Shattering Sound
Kudzu struts into the arena
“Oh no, it’s cheatgrass with a steel chair!”
Kudzu isn’t even all that bad. The folks in charge of tracking it rate it far lesser of a concern than other oriental invasives. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kudzu-vine-ate-south-180956325/
You say that, but I’ve seen some amazing kudzu patches, and I’ve never seen or heard of anything else even close.
but I’ve seen some amazing kudzu patches
Yes, and as noted in the article I linked, there is a reason for that. You see everything there is. Kudzu’s amazing ability is to be seen from the window of a car on a road. If there is even a bit of management or the area isn’t clear cut and kept constantly clear of competition from maintenance of the road you’re traveling on, kudzu is more of a dudzu.
I get it, it was planted to be ornamental, but that’s not what I’m talking about.
A couple of years ago, I was travelling through the South somewhere, and went past a stretch of kudzu that was at least a half mile long, and covered EVERYTHING. I pulled over into a space that was almost a parking lot. Clearly I wasnt the first to stop to check this out.
It was so thick, you could not tell what was under it. It stretched as back into the woods as far as I could see. I took a bunch of pictures, but they were underwhelming. There was a lot of green, but they just didn’t show how overwhelming it was. I couldn’t find the pix anyway. And while that was the biggest Kudzu infestation I’ve seen, I’ve witnessed plenty of other impressive ones as well. Although I do have to say, I’m seeing less lately. Anti-Kudzu campaigns seem to be having an effect.
So yeah, I understand that it was planted by the road where I could see it, but that still doesn’t describe the sheer immensity of the coverage. That isn’t just an invasive plant becoming ubiquitous, it truly gives a new meaning to the word “invasive.”
I’m a plant guy, I love building gardens and stuff, so I know what I’m looking at, and I’ve never seen anything else in my travels that comes close to rivaling Kudzu.
I’ll bring some slugs
Will they get along with my killer wasps?
