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22 Comments
How do you keep the deer out of your gardens?
Great video, Luke and a huge congratulations on the farm! An idea to maybe help with wash out we use for the horse pastures to reestablish were the run off and mud paths are the worst is Winter Rye. It's quick growing and the roots help hold things in place while the "mud" recovers from NE Ohio winters
Awesome endeavor! None of those need to be cold stratified to grow?
A quick once over with a cultivator before adding the straw, really helps the germination rates.
cool idea, you might need more mulch though
I need to do this on the side of my house. Nothing but rocks and weeds there.
I'm pretty sure the cia is messing with my seed orders. Used to have great gardens. Now, nothing.
This is fantastic
Dandilions are the best to help with erosion in my opinion! Just one opinion out of thousands! š¤£š¤£
Not sure why you didnt use a seeder, and if you layed the straw down and raked it over…….. would have saved you money for sure. I really hope it worked anyways, i commend your efforts just think it wasnt very well thought out.
I have almost 8 acres, and I have no wind breaks and surrounded by farmland. Most days is just constant wind. I'd like to put more trees around my border eventually.
I did wildflowers in one of my raised beds. Made my husband anxious because it looked like weeds and he wanted to mow it down. He's a green lawn guy. š
Ez straw is expensive and it stinks.
But, is it windy? Lol
Iād like to know how you will water them so they can germinate.
Oh, boy, I hope some of those seeds find purchase and sprout!
Coincidentally, I have a 4,000 sq.ft. fill-dirt berm that I'm working to get seeded with a mix of wildflowers and native grasses. Starting with a test section, I created small furrows, topped with compost, seeded then covered with a mulch of crushed leaves and dried grass clippings. Then we had wind – it blew much of the mulch away. Then the ants & birds came and harvested seeds. Then a heavy, brief rain flattened out the furrows. At this point, the only evidence that I tried is that a fresh batch of tumbleweeds have sprouted, but none of the seeds I sowed did.
I'll try again, this time, I'll use a garden weezel to blend the compost into the dirt so it doesn't blow away, then rake the seeds in to make sure they are covered with something heavier than mulch, and I'm also gonna mix some tackifier into the mulch to help 'glue it together' after I wet it down.
Seeding a hill of soft dessicated dirt has been a real challenge.
We have lots of wildflowers in Texas we especially have on highway 281 in highway 77 which will now or I69. Lady Bird Johnson start it The wallflowers in lots of our highways. We have hill country full of wildflowers.
You just give me the perfect idea I will build a hill and plant purslane.
6:58 – š hey now, this is a family channel š
Thank You!
If they are perennial wildflowers/wild grasses, they will most likely need to overwinter in that spot before they will germinate. They require a process called 'cold stratification' to germinate. So, they won't germinate until next spring. Some wildflower perennials take 2 or 3 years to germinate! In the mean time, you want to make sure to maintain either a mulch or cover crop to prevent the soil from eroding and washing away your seeds.
What happened to wind breakers? My wild guess would be a combination of monoculture and excess capitalism (space spent on non-productive trees versus more space for your money-making mono-crop).
If you could give advise on where and how to obtain native trees and vegetation, I would be so appreciative. I know the conservation service provides some.
Always buy native seedsā¦ I have wildflowers everywhere and the bees and other pollinators 15:38 prefer those the most over all the āfancyā flowers