What can I put in the lawn to play a joke on the gardener?

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Today the gardener sprayed the old, ratty lawn with weed killer to kill it completely, and in a couple of weeks he is going to replace it with new sod. He's going to come back in a couple of days to check on the results of the weed killer. I want to put something all over the lawn to play a joke on him. Like some weird atomic flowers sprang up. Any suggestions?

[XemaSab]

1. You can probably go to the local garden store

and get plant 6-packs for 2 bucks. :popcorn:

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2. or maybe one of those 18 packs

[mwooldri]

3. Lawn paint?

Paint the whole lawn some unusual colour? Or something unexpected like some actual bright shade of green?

Mark.

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4. hmmm. that makes me think...... fluorescent pink paint......

[MrSlayer]

5. Punji spikes are always fun.

I hate my gardener.

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6. oh, well thanks,

but that's not what I intend, really just to make him laugh.

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7. What I did was,

I bought a flat of small pansy plants. (32 in the flat but I think I only planted about half of them). I planted them around the area where he sprayed the grass killer. When he comes to check on it tomorrow he will either laugh, be puzzled or freak out. If he asks about it I'll just say, "Well you can try, but you just can't kill a pansy."

[petronius]

8. You could bury a life-sized plastic skull just below the surface,

or a tightly-locked old metal cash-box with cut-up newspaper (of course, if you do that and he doesn't tell you about it you won't be able to trust your gardener ever again...)

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9. well,

that's an idea. I really just want to make him laugh.

[Auggie]

25. Love it. My brother and I once sculpted a tiki head out of clay and buried it

where they were building a new house. Never knew if it was ever found.

[commander bunnypants]

10. radio active flowers would be great

but lawn paint easier

CB

[Jamastiene]

11. Get thee some dandelions.

Preferably the flower heads during seeding. Take them out there and blow them until your heart is content. No weed killer will affect them and the gardener will have plenty of work ahead fighting them for years to come. :P

Or, you could borrow some of my triffids. No weed killer will touch them either. Gasoline and a match doesn't even affect them. I don't know why the California government hasn't contacted me yet. They would make the PERFECT fire break around houses...provided the owners understood they would also have to fight for their very lives every single day lest my triffids creep inside overnight and try to strangle them. They've done it to me before. I barely survived. Nothing kills my triffids. They are a testament to mother nature's sense of humor AND vindictiveness. :evilgrin:

[Tektonik]

12. kudzu

[KitchenWitch]

15. GAAAAAAAAAAH

You beat me to it.

[Jamastiene]

17. Actually, there is some kudzu in my neighborhood and it

is spreading fast. It has yet to make it into my yard. My triffids won't let it in. My triffids laugh at kudzu. Muahahahahaha!!! :evilgrin:

[IntravenousDemilo]

24. I heard that you can eat it.

The best way to get rid of kudzu would be to tout it as some sort of delicacy and the latest new, wonderful fad, or better still, falsely ascribe some sort of safe, hallucinogenic experience to the eating of it. Best of all, say it's organic. It'll be gone in no time.

[KitchenWitch]

13. kudzu, it's going places!

:P

[Tektonik]

14. FIRST!

[KitchenWitch]

16. yes!

x(

[azmouse]

18. Fire ants are always good for a chuckle.

[Jamastiene]

20. I stood on a fire ant mound, accidentally, once...

Note: ONCE.

That is something you never forget. :wow:

[BreweryYardRat]

26. One of my first and worst memories was the time I laid down on a giant fire ant mound.

And I mean GIANT. I was somewhere between 2 and 4. For some reason, rather than build an actual nest, the ants had decided to inhabit a pile of palm leaves that was in my parents' yard at the time. It must have been about 2 or 3 feet high, and about as wide.

I remember everything up until it really started hurting...at which point my brain blocked it out, because the next part after that I remember is my mother freaking the fuck out and picking the ants off me in the shower while I screamed -- presumably like a damned banshee, but I just remember a kind of faint, vaguely tinny whining noise.

Hmm. Come to think of it, I wonder if having gotten such a godalmighty dose of venom at such an early age might have had any effect on my brain? From all those pain receptors firing at once, if nothing else. Could explain part of why I'm so damn crazy.

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19. Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I already planted some pansies and

someone else has seen it and laughed out loud at the idea, so I guess it is funny.

[MilesColtrane]

21. A claymore?

[old mark]

23. I was going to post the same thing,

but I thought, no, it would be tastless...
Then I thought, what the hell...

land mines.
mark

[Deep13]

22. The mutant animals caused by the weed killer ought to be enough. nt

[TreasonousBastard]

27. A headstone

[txwhitedove]

28. Scene of great yard art battle......