• casmael@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Nah it’s pretty intent on covering the whole of England too tbh. Good for the bees in September tho ☺️

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      2 months ago

      Near rivers it has to contend with Himalayan Balsam, and the bees love that stuff too.

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        2 months ago

        Yeah I quite like the ol’ Himalayan balsam to be honest - very popular with the bumble bees. Gets a bad rap in the uk because it’s supposedly ‘invasive’, but I take rather a dim view of that kind of talk to be sure.

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          2 months ago

          They do destroy biodiversity but at least they are pretty and won’t fuck you up like Giant Hogweed.

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            2 months ago

            And you can eat it (as long as you don’t eat too much in case you fuck your kidneys)

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              2 months ago

              Aye, this is the problem with a lot of invasive edibles. Too few people are interested in foraging and usually you can only eat so much foraged stuff.

              If everyone went out with tubs, bags and baskets on their days off and did a bit of foraging to make their diets a bit more varied and healthy then we might be able to make a dent in things like Himalayan Balsam and American Signal Crayfish. Realistically though we’d just have to limit foraging of easier to identify and prepare plants and fungi from easier to access areas.