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**Calishat** @researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host · 1d

Calishat @researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host

'This virtual exhibit aims to immerse visitors in the captivating histories and delicious recipes of 5 edible weeds in North America. These plants share stories about the land and the people who have inhabited it across generations. Plus, the invasive plants can be made into delicious snacks!'

https://eatinginvasiveweeds.museumoffoodandculture.org/

Eating Invasive WeedsEating Invasive Weeds | Museum of Food and Culture Virtual ExhibitThrough 5 edible invasive plants, the Museum of Food and Culture's Eating Invasive Weeds exhibit explores how weeds tell the stories about the land and the people who have inhabited it throughout history. Discover how the rise of lawn culture and anti-foraging laws have been used to control Black, Indigenous, and other people of color communities and how colonization has influenced invasive species. Plus, get some tips and tricks on how you can turn these 5 edible plants into delicious snacks!

**Colin Purrington** @colinpurrington@flipping.rocks · Apr 14

Apr 14

Colin Purrington @colinpurrington@flipping.rocks

So what are people's thoughts on using wood chips for weed suppression? I've heard that fungal decomposition sucks nitrogen from the surrounding soil, plus the nooks and crannies can provide ideal habitat for plant-nibbling pillbugs. (This is not my plot.) #CommunityGarden #garden #gardening #weeds #mulch #fungi #woodchips #nitrogen #pillbugs #woodlice #allotment

Plot at a community garden that is totally covered in several inches of wood chips.

**Colin Purrington** @colinpurrington@flipping.rocks · Apr 14

Apr 14

Colin Purrington @colinpurrington@flipping.rocks

Dug a new pit at the vegetable plot for on-site composting of weeds. Will bury the victims after a week or so, then will plant lima beans. #compost #composting #weeds #weeding #allotment #garden #gardening

18" hole with a handful of weeds at the bottom.

**Artists Garden** @artistsgarden@mastodonapp.uk · Apr 7

Apr 7

Artists Garden @artistsgarden@mastodonapp.uk

I love this entirely wild patch at the front of the garden. Everything, apart from the shrubs, is self-sown (or was already here when we bought the house). I do not do anything apart from cutting it down once a year in late autumn. At the moment, the #bluebells are flowering.
Unlike the rest of the garden it is visible from the road. I am certain that some uninspired people think it is an uncared-for weed patch.
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In the foreground, a thicket of green leaves of plants that are only just starting. In the middle distance a clump of flowering bluebells. In the background bright, yellow-green leaves of a shrub.

#ArtistsGarden #ImperfectGarden #garden

**BellingenNSW** @Bellingen@mastodon.au · Apr 5

Apr 5

BellingenNSW @Bellingen@mastodon.au

Human-made ecosystems: Ecological novelty is now the "new normal" for our planet

"30-40% of the world's terrestrial ecosystems have already transformed into novel states."

"O'ahu as an "amazing crystal ball" that offers a glimpse of the future of our planet if humans continue to damage environments and drive species to extinction."

"Hawaii's O'ahu's lowland forests are now almost entirely devoid of the plants and animals that grew here for millions of years before the arrival of humans. Settlers brought extinctions by cutting down trees to make farms and introducing voracious predators and disease-carrying animals. Today, these tropical forests are a tapestry of non-native species introduced from every corner of the planet: Brazilian peppertree, Indonesian cinnamon and roseleaf bramble from the Himalayas and Australia. Most of the animals, including all the birds that Tarwater mentioned earlier, are also alien."

"We like to think of O'ahu as the cautionary tale for all the other Pacific Islands and the Hawaiian Islands. It's what you don't want to have happen – Corey Tarwater"
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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250403-the-new-hawaiian-freakosystem-emerging-on-oahu-accidentally-created-by-humans

Towards a novel biosphere in 2300: rapid and extensive global and biome-wide climatic novelty in the Anthropocene
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rstb.2023.0022
#biodiversity #biosphere #ecosystems #extinction #birds #loss #InvasiveSpecies #degradation #SettlerSociety #cattle #dogs #grasses #NovelEcosystems #weeds #restoration #Pacific

A landscape of green showing large pink multi-branched plants in the foreground, a spiky small hill covered in trees in the mid-ground and a mountainous ridge in the background (Credit: Sean MacDonald)

BBC · Apr 4This Hawaiian island's 'freakosystems' are a warning from the futureBy Matthew Ponsford

**Colin Purrington** @colinpurrington@flipping.rocks · Mar 23

Mar 23

Colin Purrington @colinpurrington@flipping.rocks

Dug up some weeds today at the plot and left them to desiccate on a bucket for a few days (some have extensive roots). I like to display them, in part, as a lesson to other weeds that might be thinking about germinating (just don't). In a few days I'll slide them into the nearby pit of despair for eventual burial. #GrowYourOwn #garden #gardening #allotment #weeds #composting

Pile of weeds on an upside-down blue bucket, next to a hole in the ground.

**Heliograph** @Heliograph@mastodon.au · Mar 21 *

Mar 21 *

Heliograph @Heliograph@mastodon.au

walked along train lines and oh buoy it's weed central (⁠⊙⁠_⁠◎⁠) #weeds #weedsofmastodon

Pretty yellow little flower of a very obnoxious weed Wax ivy which is poisonous

Blue morning glory flower at least that's what I think it is

Huge growth of prickly pear in full bloom and fruit

**Colin Purrington** @colinpurrington@flipping.rocks · Mar 16

Mar 16

Colin Purrington @colinpurrington@flipping.rocks

Weed pit in my plot at the community garden. After it's full I'll top it off with soil and start another one. Keeps the garden tidy and over time becomes organic fertilizer. I know this is likely boring to most but I've noticed that many of my fellow gardeners throw their garden refuse onto the paths between plots. #gardening #allotment #weeds #compost #composting #garden

An approximately 18" deep hole filled with green plant material.

**Colin Purrington** @colinpurrington@flipping.rocks · Mar 10

Mar 10

Colin Purrington @colinpurrington@flipping.rocks

If anyone is considering polypropylene landscaping fabric for their vegetable garden, here's a visual of what happens. After just one season it begins to disintegrate, and shreds will be blown onto neighboring plots where they'll continue to break down into ever smaller pieces of plastic. #garden #gardening #weeds #weeding #plastic #mulch #microplastics #CommunityGarden #VegetableGardening

Section of a garden that was covered with porous plastic mulch, with large sections missing, exposing the soil beneath.

**Jon Sullivan** @joncounts@mastodon.nz · Feb 14

Feb 14

Jon Sullivan @joncounts@mastodon.nz

#RNZ has a good article on planting weeds in gardens then selling them. Casual sales of garden plants by gardeners is an important way that weeds move about the country, and it’s difficult for regional council Biosecurity staff to keep on top of. Just because a plant is pretty doesn’t mean it’s safe to sell. You can learn what plants are on #iNaturalist and check their status on WeedBusters NZ.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/541782/backyard-nurseries-spreading-pest-plants-in-southland

https://weedbusters.org.nz

RNZ · Feb 14Backyard nurseries spreading pest plants in SouthlandBy Ninetonoon

#nz #weeds #gardens

**Jon Sullivan** @joncounts@mastodon.nz · Dec 4, 2024

Dec 4, 2024

Jon Sullivan @joncounts@mastodon.nz

As a botanically trained ecologist in NZ, I get a front-row seat to the slow-motion avalanche of new plants spreading into the wild from gardens.

It will be a massive landscape transformation, just getting started.

On Monday I made the 24th observation of the common lionface on #iNaturalist in greater Christchurch. The first was 2019. It would already take a city-wide effort to stop, and is just one species of hundreds.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/254076984

iNaturalist NZCommon Lionface (Nemesia floribunda)Common Lionface from Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand on December 2, 2024 at 04:29 PM by Jon Sullivan. The only one I know of anywhere in central Christchurch at the moment. I pulled it out but didn't...

#weeds #InvasivePlants #PlantNatives

**Artists Garden** @artistsgarden@mastodonapp.uk · Nov 2, 2024

Nov 2, 2024

Artists Garden @artistsgarden@mastodonapp.uk

#Candlesnuff #Fungus (I think), #Xylaria hypoxylon, also known as Stag's Horn Fungus, on a log in the #stumpery.
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In the centre of this photograph white fungi with a darker base. They resemble stags’ antlers in shape. They are growing on a log, which is partly covered in ivy.

#artistsgarden #imperfectgarden #garden

**mk30** @mk30@regenerate.social · Oct 20, 2024 *

Oct 20, 2024 *

mk30 @mk30@regenerate.social

Doing a little light weeding today

Friends, I recommend that you NOT let guinea grass develop at your place. And definitely don't let it get 12 ft tall or spread across an area.

It's highly aggressive, grows very tall in thick patches, the roots are very difficult to remove, I had to use a literal saw to get through the thick stems, and it's covered in these hairs that are sharp and horrible and get on everything (like fiberglass fibers, if you've ever had the misfortune of dealing with those).