R-T Warren

Plant clover. Broadcast seed where your lawn is bare, and keep reseeding whenever there is a bare patch. There are some clovers that will take over the grass, and some you need to prepare the soil.  Make sure you find a more tidy variety that won't winterkill for your area... looking up "clover lawn" is a good place to start.

Enjoy yourselves!  I am a bit of a recluse, but I am with you in spirit.

Use it to store Feta or other types of brined cheese, or marinate/store your soft cheeses in it, like mozzarella. Use it for the liquid in dill bread... it's amazing!

Cara Cee wrote:Bamboo can be a nightmare and I mean even the so-called clumping ones. It took us years to get rid of the golden bamboo we naively planted, which migrated through our yard. Some of the pieces we dug out were enormous and went way down deep and we went through many blades cutting the rhizomes out.

I would never plant bamboo again unless it were in a pot with a concrete saucer under it.

Sympodial bamboo, or "clumping bamboo" is not invasive like your running types which have underground rhizomes. Although not suited for US zones below 5, it would be a happy recipient of the compost pail!

I live in eastern Washington State, and composting toilets are legal within circumstances whereas most people who would want a composting toilet, could have one.

Most interestingly... if you have a traditional plumbed flush toilet available in your home, then you can have a composting toilet.  

Because composting toilets don't actually make compost, the majority of the rules are about where not to dump the material. School playgrounds, waterways, city streets, and parking lots, *SMH* are some of the places they have had to list in the code, but even these are written with caveats.

I have a Natures Head, and the material is composted with the rest of the sanctuary poo and bedding, and feeds the earth.  I live in there high desert, so we are essentially making soil to enhance the burned out clay on basalt substrate on our property.

Definitely food for thought. We live in the hot, arid, and windy high desert, and our nettles are brutal... tough and nasty, no way would we touch them never mind eat them... we stay as far away as possible, I think this variety chases people too.

I have always wondered about people handling and eating them, I never understood it, but most of these folks were from much milder, wetter climates.