• Majorllama@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    We had blackberries in our backyard growing up. Every year we would cut and dig up as much of every plant as we could possibly see and we would scrape the top 6 inches of soil to move it far away.

    We would burn them all before we churned the soil and burned some more.

    We tried every trick and “natural” solution people recommended, but nothing ever stopped them from coming back.

    My super hippy mom got so fed up she bought turbo cancer death chemicals and sprayed them everywhere. The blackberries finally stopped coming back.

    It’s been 15 years and shes still mad that’s how she finally got rid of the blackberries.

    • LordGimp@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Burn and churn is actually fantastic for the soil. Ofc they kept coming back.

    • Hadriscus@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 days ago

      do you mind explaining ? my botany is rusty (as is my my lycanthropy)

      • Kitathalla@lemy.lolEnglish
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        11 days ago

        On the internet, everything vaguely dog-like has a big, thick penis with an even bigger, thicker bulb at the bottom of it. I’ve heard it’s perfect for prissy subs everywhere as you love-fuck them into a drooling mess only to ‘tie’ them at the end as you howl your alpha-dominant status to the echoing world of your 10ftx10ft, $1500/mo roomapartment.

        • Hadriscus@lemm.eeEnglish
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          11 days ago

          Thanks for taking the time to write this up. I still don’t understand though. Does this explain the name “knotweed” ? I looked it up and it seems to be a real plant.

          • Kitathalla@lemy.lolEnglish
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            11 days ago

            Oh, lol, sorry. I thought you meant how the ‘knot’ and ‘weed’ fit into current internet culture. A lot of plants have names that probably don’t make much sense to us. Apparently in its native Japan, there are 689 terms for it! Damn. I noticed that another english name for it is Donkey Rhubarb, which immediately makes me think of other things, and I’m now realizing I spend way too much time on the internet. /facepalm