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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Do Americans have some kind of adversity to gardens or is it due to HOA bullshit?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I know a lot of neighbourhoods in US have explicit rules of what the lawn is supposed to look like, so in a way yeah there are literal rules against gardens.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Americans (Anglos or NW Europeans in general) have a lot of weird phobias such as intensely disliking fish, lamb, goat, (none of these in a vegan way) mushrooms, irrationally scared of bugs, very easily disgusted by things to the point of overwashing their hands, or the opposite where they don't wash their hands after literally stepping out of a toilet stall, also so disgusted by stuff that they refuse to pick up their dog's excrement and/or don't wipe/wash their butts properly (also because this is gay)

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Not just NW Europeans, there is a huge culture gap between Poles and Germans.

While we go mushroom hunting every fall, Germans are afraid of even looking at a bolete thinking it will kill them on the spot. It's a while different world out there, just across the border.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

the germanic race was a mistake

freedom is when no food (at your friend's house)

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

In Poland it's a crime to allow a guest to leave with a stomach being below full and without some more food for the road.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I mean, fuck wasps, though.

Both kinds.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Both. My family lives out in the county. There's no rules as to what is supposed to done with the land.

So...They clear cut it. They'll leave a few small scraggly oak trees which will mostly all die in a year or two. It's horrible. They turn a beautiful forest into a dry desert in a week.

They'll misquote a local rancher, spout misinformation about certain species of trees to justify their horrible land management practices.

And then wonder why the area has less water and is getting hotter.

It's funny how, in my area at least, the HOAs are always stopping people from wanting to plant, and the people who can plant want to make it look like an HOAs wet dream.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

This house must be owned by a boomer b/c that is not an "average" size for either house nor yard! :-P

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

it truly sickened me the first time i realized those huge bags of granular pesticide sold at lowes are for completely eradicating all arthropod life from your lawn

i mean at that point just tear up the grass and replace it with astroturf or pave it or something if the idea of a single bug is such an affront to your "lawn"

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

What the hell, is this a real picture? I thought, this was a shitty render from some 3D modeling software without grass texture.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I like to plant milkweed. The plant is ugly as hell but the bees and butterflies love it.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

fake! driveway is too small and there are not three SUVs parked in it

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