Questions tagged [meadow]
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Can I simultaneously kill off grass and sow wildflower seed?
I'm planing on establishing a fairly large area - 1000 sq ft - as a sort of wildflower meadow. The area is currently lawn with pretty good quality soil. I live in Asheville, NC zone 6.
Here is my question: I have established wildflower meadows…
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How to replace lawn with wildflowers?
We've got a lot of lawn that we don't use (maybe 150x35') and I don't love mowing. (Last year we let this area grow out into 24" tall grasses.) I like the idea of getting a bunch of wildflower mix and just turning that land over to some…
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How can I plant Little Bluestem seeds into burned out turf?
We are converting an area of turf to meadow. The plan is to kill off the lawn grasses and seed in a number of warm season grasses and forbs.
The Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) seed is fluffy and we are concerned that it might not work in…
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How do you convert a mixed fescue field to a native warm-season grass meadow?
How do you convert a mixed fescue field to a native warm-season grass meadow?
I'm actually looking for information on a few of options:
Anything goes option.
Minimal soil disturbance option.
Minimal soil disturbance no herbicide option.
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How to plant wildflowers on lawn
I have a bijou patch of grass in front of my house, that for reasons I won't go into has been "mowed" with a strimmer (weed wacker) repeatedly.
The lawn is basically trashed, lots of moss and dandelions. It occurred to me that instead of repairing…
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What is this ground-hugging "weed" with small purple flowers and fleshy stems?
This popped up in an area that we've been converting to native meadow. I've never seen it before. We are in NY State near the beach.
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How should I move on from my lawn?
My house has both front and back lawns, but I'm not really a lawn fan (high resource use, low utility, ecological issues, blah blah blah). I want to do something else with that space; the question is what. Part of the space has a raised garden bed…
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What is this feathery reddish/white "weed" that has popped up in a meadow area?
This is another one I've never seen. A meadow mix was seeded in 2 years ago, so it might even be something desirable rather than a weed.
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