In the Lord of the Rings fandom there’s a persistent debate whether balrogs, or Durin’s Bane specifically, have wings. The text in Fellowship is ambiguous whether what it is describing are literal wings or something else wing-like.

  • Keilik@lemmy.world
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    13 天前

    I got all my cardboard for free just asking stores if I can take their boxes, small businesses especially are happy to get rid of boxes especially if they don’t have to cut them up

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      Suppose it depends on how it comes, but wouldn’t it be pretty bulky to carry if you wanted to cover a large area?

      Would dead leaves be any good? Could just take loads of those from the floor around trees in parks and fill the bags on my bike. About 70L between them. Still think it would take a while to cover an allotment though.

      Also got a compost bin but while nearly full it’s going to be a while to rot down.

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        13 天前

        Dead leaves are great actually, even better if you mow them into confetti since they will break down a lot faster. You can solarize a bed with a tarp pretty easily too for weed control. Chip drop is a great way to get a bunch of organic material to put into soil or mulch with too. The cardboard works well but there’s plenty of other options

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          13 天前

          Don’t have a lawnmower, but usually just below the surface layer of leaves they are already like confetti.

          Previous owner used tarps and the weeds grew through. Plastic strands of tarps are all over my plot because of it and where the edges were fraying a lot.

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      13 天前

      I tell people all the time for moving that nursing homes have the best boxes if you don’t mind it saying weird things like xxl adult diapers. Probably also true for killing preventing weeds/grass.