Incredible Backyard Wildflower Meadow from American Meadows
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2013
- We think everyone has too much grass to cut. Take a big section of your yard and turn it into a wildflower meadow! Our three meadows cost less than $500 total including the seed, the Roundup, and paying someone to till the soil for us before planting. We now have more butterflies, hummingbirds, and other wildlife than ever. We live in mid-Michigan, zone 5. We ordered the seed from www.americanmeadows.com and included their All-Native Northeast, All-Perennial, and Northeast wildflower mixtures. We also added a pound of Painted Daisy.
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I can't understand why you would use roundup...Its is poison !!!
My goodness that is gorgeous. I hope it's still going! I agree with you on the roundup. It's a once only thing and it does the best job. it's inert once it hits the soil and surely degrades fairly quickly. Well done!
Thank you. Unfortunately, we moved, and when I drove by the house last summer, they had mowed the meadows and turned it back into lawn. :( At least I did my part and kept it going for 10 years.
please addres the toxic aspects of roundup and suggestions for alternatives... also mowing and care at the end of the season
4:31 - That's one chill looking frog!
I just got a pound of honey bee mix from American Meadows. I will not be using any roundup.
+Beatnikzombie I hated to use that much, but I watered it down as much as I could and only used what it took to kill the grass. The best option would be to take a bobcat or other blade and scrape the sod. I'm afraid that just tilling it under would still result in too much grass and weeds. I've also heard that there are some homebrew mixtures that will do the trick but I'm not sure how effectively. Good luck with it.
The best thing to do is it start preparing an area a year ahead of time. Cover it with cardboard and everything you'd throw into a compost pile.
in the fall are you mowing it down and waiting for new growth next year or leaving the stand of dead plants?
I love it! I loved everything until the Round-Up comment. Why would anyone use that poison?!?!!
Thank you
Nicely done!
that incredible place, besides the fz 200
Roundup? UGH.
Awesome dude,
Horrible advise round up will poison all the insects!!
Your meadow looks awesome!!! I am in north Georgia (zone 7), and I am thinking about planting about 2 acres of lance leaf coreopsis on a hill that has red clay/rocky soil. Would you recommend covering the seed with straw to prevent erosion after the seed has been rolled??? I think I see straw that you used in the video, but I could be wrong...
Yes, we covered it with straw to keep it from blowing away or washing away in the rain. It also deterred the birds from eating it all and kept moisture in the top of the soil. We had a few very dry days at the beginning of the summer, so I did some light watering.
What do you do at the end of the season?
Nothing until spring. The birds pick some of the seeds out over the winter, and the rabbits and other critters like the cover it provides. In the spring, I rake or sometimes mow it into windrows and do a controlled burn. The burning helps to reseed and rejuvenate the meadows.
Sorry. You lost me with Roundup. Thumbs down.
There truly is hope for our world. But we all need your help to save what is left of this great planet.
Thanks Jim. I tell people that the planet's not going to save itself, but if it does, the easiest way would be to eliminate us from the equation entirely.
That just might happen if we aren't careful. Look into the sixth extinction. That's the one that we are all in today and we are the cause.
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