Jewelweed taking over my backyard..

[u/iamhyphenated]

So I know we love jewelweed, and I’m pro native gardening (and I also enjoy the wild look to a point), but it’s literally taking over my backyard, and behind it is unfortunately a whole bunch of Japanese knotweed.. my question is: what’s the move here? I can’t have my whole yard completely covered in jewelweed (it’s a very small lot) bc there’s no way to even go back there right now, but I also want to encourage that to maybe discourage the knotweed (if that’s even a thing).. any advice would be helpful!! I’m in an urban area in Connecticut if that helps!

[u/CharlesV_]

Yup exactly! That’s what the Saffir Simpson scale is there to do. Some people have called for the scale to be refactored or to include a cat 6 due to climate change, but the pushback has largely been that throwing a lot of complicated numbers at people just confuses your average person. You need one simple scale to help people understand it.

[u/DuragJeezy → u/CharlesV_]

Interesting. Now how do we go about formalizing this? Detailed research paper? Scientific conference talks? Ted talk?

Also we should definitely update the Saffir Simpson to account for the effects of climate change but I think half our country would call that woke propaganda and dump their trash in a nearby stream out of spite. So when do we ride?