Transcript of “Hell Strip and Gardening Strip Aren’t Kinds of Skin Waxing”
We’re still hearing from listeners all over about their terms for the strip of land that lies between the sidewalk and the road.
And we heard from Lydia Gold, who is a gardener in Portland, Maine, and she said that in their gardening community there, they call it the hell strip. and She assumes that that’s because it’s always getting battered by salt and sand from the road, and then it gets really hot and dry because it’s sandwiched between two pieces of asphalt.
And the gardening community there is trying to transform those hell strips into an oasis for pollinators and other wildlife, you know, planting drought tolerant plants and that kind of thing in those areas, which is interesting because we also heard from another gardener in Washington state, Pamela Burton, who said that there, they’re trying to change the term parking strip to gardening strip because they’re trying to encourage homeowners to make use of these ignored patches of land for more productive use, you know, plant flowers or something.
Right. And it changes your outlook from car brain to nature brain.
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