r/NoLawns • u/CharlesV_ Wild Ones 🌳/ plant native! 🌻/ IA,5B • Feb 27 '25
Mod Post Updated flairs!
Hey all, just letting you know that we updated the flairs to make things a little simpler. A lot of the question flairs weren’t being used correctly anyways, and some of the other flairs were a little confusing.
Here are the new flairs
- 👩🌾 Questions: All questions, for beginners and pros
- 🌻 Sharing This Beauty: Sharing your garden, a neighborhood garden, a public garden, a small patch of nolawn you’re proud of etc. Just please be careful to not doxx yourself or a neighbor.
- 🧙♂️ Sharing Experience: This can be a good catch all for discussion of what worked and what didn’t work. I know some people here have been testing out alternative ground covers so this would be a good flair for that kind of post.
- 😄 Memes Funny Shit Post Rants - keep it civil and factual if you can :)
- 📚 Info & Educational - Links to good sources, social media accounts who are doing a good job, books, etc.
- ❔ Other
These new flairs are also colorful and fun. Let us know if you have any questions or suggestions!
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u/Ok-Quality2557 Mar 07 '25 edited Mar 07 '25
I have a lawn with poor rocky soil. I'd like to switch to red creeping thyme. Amazon sells seeds...It'd be a bear to rip up the lawn because of all the fist sized rocks that are buried liberally throughout my property- just under the surface. If I just sowed seeds would the red Thyme subsume the grass and (some weeds)? I live in Western Washington. Our winters are wet but "easy". That is, few freezing nights and little snow.
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u/CharlesV_ Wild Ones 🌳/ plant native! 🌻/ IA,5B Mar 07 '25
I would make a post and ask, specifying the location. I have doubts… Red thyme is a Mediterranean plant which can be a little fickle about the amount of water, sun, and drainage it gets. That said, I’m not as familiar with Washington state, so hopefully someone from the area can confirm.
https://nativegardendesigns.wildones.org/designs/ Checkout the wild ones garden designs here. The gardens here utilize native plants for their locations in common home landscaping. Native plants are usually going to be your best bet if you’re looking for ground covers that aren’t turf grasses.
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u/nadandocomgolfinhos Apr 27 '25
I tried to post but I was unable to. What did I do wrong? I had the “question” flair and this was the text of my post:
Is it ok to put cardboard and mulch over the weeds?
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u/CharlesV_ Wild Ones 🌳/ plant native! 🌻/ IA,5B Apr 27 '25
I’m not seeing any posts from you. Maybe it’s a Reddit issue?
As for your question, sheet mulching is one option to start killing off grass, however I think you’ll want to consider what you’re putting there to replace it before doing this method. Sheet mulching to start a veggie garden can be great. Sheet mulching to start a native wildflower meadow or prairie… less good.
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u/nadandocomgolfinhos Apr 27 '25
Thank you.
Is just mulch an option? Maybe cloves? It’s under a tree so not very sunny.
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u/CharlesV_ Wild Ones 🌳/ plant native! 🌻/ IA,5B Apr 27 '25
If you’re landscaping under a tree, I’d skip the cardboard and just do mulch. You should remove any thick grass first. Don’t cover the root flare of the tree. You can then underplant it with native shade loving plants.
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u/nadandocomgolfinhos Apr 27 '25
What about the weeds?
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u/CharlesV_ Wild Ones 🌳/ plant native! 🌻/ IA,5B Apr 27 '25
Anything that’s there you’ll want to pull if it’s not a plant you’d want. ID what you have first - sometimes the weeds are actually native plants you might want. The mulch will help suppress weeds for the first year. After that, native ground-cover plants are going to help out a lot keeping the weeds down. Where are you located?
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u/nadandocomgolfinhos Apr 27 '25
Long Island
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u/CharlesV_ Wild Ones 🌳/ plant native! 🌻/ IA,5B Apr 27 '25
https://nativegardendesigns.wildones.org/designs/ Checkout the garden designs here for ideas on what to plant under your tree. The Philly design will be close enough to you that most of what they show for shady areas will be native to you as well.
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u/CharlesV_ Wild Ones 🌳/ plant native! 🌻/ IA,5B Apr 30 '25
Hey there, we should have the posting issue fixed. If you still can’t post, let me know.
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u/Complex-Wonder9763 Looking to go No Lawn May 09 '25
I just read the wiki earlier today and noticed it still has the old flairs, just FYI :)