• MidwestSolarpunk@slrpnk.net
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    5 days ago

    Could make everything within ~3ft of the road non-edible natives, either companion plants for the food or native cultivars to help pollinators (which in turn, will help the edibles closer to the house). So there’s still a way to make this work!

    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 days ago

      Not much besides crab grass will grow within 3 feet of our roads anyway because they literally salt the earth all winter with insane amounts of road de-icer in our part of the country. The only places that get a slight reprieve are homes near reservoirs or when it gets too cold for the melt temp and they switch to sand.

      It’s also why cars don’t last much more than 10 years unless undercoated and carefully maintained and cleaned all winter.

      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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        3 days ago

        I’ve got so much crab grass this year because of the plow tearing into the yard and then the municipality reseeding it and nothing growing there lol

        and both of my cars are rusty pieces of shit because I didn’t undercoat. body looks great, relatively… the frame and suspension and all brackets underneath are falling apart. a gas tank bracket disintegrated in my hand the other day.

    • riwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 days ago

      yeah tbf i would not wanna eat anything that close to sidewalk anyway. dogs pee and poop there