I'm making a housewarming gift registry on Amazon, so Fedi, throw some housewarming gift ideas at a feral queer who's finally going to have a small yard and also lots of responsibilities and maybe going to figure out how to decorate!
@trixter its probably a good time of year to throw down seeds for your native wildflowers and grasses! most of them need at least a few weeks of cold weather (whatever that means around you) to propagate properly so its good to get them down before spring, but late enough that there aren’t going to be any warm spells that trick em into sprouting early
i’d also recommend picking up a pair of gardening gloves, if you’re caring for even a small yard they’ll almost certainly come in handy at some point (i’ve also got a trowel, bc we also put in some landscaping plugs of goldenrods and asters)
@Satsuma Thank you for the yard/gardening advice! I’ve never been great with plants but I really want to give it a good try, and I definitely want to go native meadow with at least the backyard. It’s a center-unit townhouse so there’s not a lot of it, but it’s a decent strip in the back.
And I never think of Amazon (where I’m building the list) for consumables so that’s a good reminder on cleaning supplies.
@trixter i’m also in a rowhouse! and something of a beginner gardener—the nice thing about natives is they usually don’t take too much work once they’re established
inaturalist is great for IDing whatever might already be growing there btw, i tried to leave as many of the native volunteers as i could while pulling out all the non-natives (there was a bunch of invasive thistle, hence the need for gardening gloves asap lol) and then just kinda planting around that. So it’s kinda messy but good!
btw if you get any leaves on your property (from a neighbors yard or a street tree or whatever) you can just leave em in place as much as possible—lots of pollinators live in leaf litter over the winter, and then the leaves will help fertilize your soil as they break down
@trixter cleaning supplies were something we had to stock up on after moving and are best to get asap bc moving is inevitably kinda messy—a big jug of distilled vinegar, sponges for scrubbing things, toilet brushes, a broom (or a vacuum if you’ve got carpet), a mop for the kitchen, etc.