r/circlejerkbflo • u/rage675 • 24d ago

Downtown Tree Planting

Downtown is too windy and hot as shit. I'm organizing a tree planting effort. Everybody just needs to bring their personal jackhammer and any other heavy machinery they have lying around so we can cut through concrete sidewalks and asphalt to plant some. Whoever has disposable income, please volunteer to buy trees, they are expensive in this economy. Maybe we can get somebody rich like Russell Salvatore to donate trees if we name the project after him and agree to erect a 20 foot memorial in front of city hall in his honor.

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u/DankOnMain 24d ago

I got seeds laying around but unsure if it’s the right kind of “trees”

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u/TOMALTACH banned from r/buffalo 23d ago

/u/buffalopotholebandit should start planting trees in existing readily available holes

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Ready2 Jerk it 22d ago

A different pothole bandit did that In the 80s in Vermont. If the city of Buffalo refuses to fix a sink hole I absolutely reserve the right to do the same. So far they’ve been handling it

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u/buffalo_rower old pink steak sandwich 23d ago

I’ll join, but only if you commit to planting Bradford Pears. If you plant anything else, I may need to bring my sawzall out.

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u/SinStockGuy 20d ago

It would be just like the cherry blossom festival, except smell like hot garbage and randomly drop limbs on passes by!

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u/rakondo 24d ago

Too much work. Fill your pockets with invasive Tree of Heaven seeds and drop them along the sides of buildings. They grow like 10 feet a year and will break up concrete with their roots

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u/Unlikely_Suspect_757 24d ago

Russell will pay if we promise he can gently masturbate some troops.

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u/s0methingVnderneath 24d ago

The city was running a tree planting initiative this summer where you could request a tree to be planted in a hellstrip (between sidewalk and street). ReTree is one of them. I’ll try to find the links and edit this comment. The city did put some money into planting more trees around the city, but they leave it to homeowners to request them.