• PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Even if you have the same greeness of grass, you’re neighbor’s will look greener because you’re seeing it from a more horizontal angle. If you were in their yard, your grass would look greener.

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
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    17 hours ago

    Apparently the original phrase dates back to at least Latin times, and was about the fertility and harvest of someone else’s crops.

    It’s funny that some time in the 1900s it became about the greenness of grass, something I personally couldn’t care less about.

  • Dr. Bob@lemmy.ca
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    21 hours ago

    I did try this and sprayed out the clover after a couple years. It turned out to be super compatible with quackgrass.

    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOP
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      20 hours ago

      Clover is a dicot, and quackgrass is a monocot. Pesticides that work on one don’t work on the other. By killing the clover you opened up niche space for the quack grass. Next time seed the area with what you want

  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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    20 hours ago

    Dandelions are only useful if they aren’t taking over everything and will kill clover if allowed to do so.

    When the southern US was covered in canebrakes and tall grasses there were natural stops that prevented the spread of dandelions. This is not the case anymore.