How To Grow Bluebonnets - Austin Texas Wildflower Garden Tour
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- Опубликовано: 24 мар 2023
- This video explains the process for growing bluebonnets.
Here in Austin Texas we face many challenges, but nothing grows as easily as the native Bluebonnet. However, there are some nuances to growing these flowers, for example, the seeds usually take 16 - 22 months to germinate. Most of my bluebonnets germinated this season after planting them in fall 2021. If you want to grow your own personal bluebonnet meadow, get started here.
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Dandelions are edible. Cook them like you would collard greens. Flowers leaves and stems. They have a really high nutritional value. Or dry out the leaves and make tea. The tea causes water weight loss. Are blue bonnets evergreen or will you have a dirt yard in the winter? How often did you water them?
Great info, and great question. The bluebonnets will go to seed and they'll dry out. I have a video from a year and a half ago where my gone-to-seed bluebonnets are dry and an eyesore in summer: ruclips.net/video/fh8Ay_5wGBQ/видео.html
My plan for the ones currently in my front yard is to let them fully release their seeds, and then mow over them. At the time I have to mow them, im expecting my sunflowers and zinnias will have sprouted in the sweet potato vine bed.
I think the bluebonnets turned out really nice 😊
It was a long time coming, but now we’ll have bluebonnets every spring!
Wow that is far more impressive than my mind had imagined. 10/10. I'm almost wanting to use a 200 gallon tank & weekly feed with an irrigation pump instead of pellets. It would allow me to feed more in tune with the weather.
Appreciate you Bob! The spot in the video was south facing, if not for the dandelions I would have even had bluebonnet patches in our sidewalk medians.
I’ve always been so anti using poison because of the peaches/etc, but I know that stuff can stay in the ground and move around, I went as light as I could by the eastern fence and still killed all the weeds
@@AustinTexasGardening If your native soil is acidic then you could apply a surplus of garden-lime to make the top inch or two of the soil soggy where the weeds would be easier to hand-pull. There is also a 2-prong-weeder that'll cut the tap-roots below the surface for hand-pulling.
Thank you for sharing. We are fixing to put some stone around our tree in the front as a border. I plan to try to grow tulips and bluebonnet flowers next year around the little tree. I hope it works. ❤️ 🌳 🌷
Great plan, I’d recommend getting those bluebonnet seeds down ASAP
I think the mixture of dandelions and bluebonnets is beautiful. A monoculture will almost always look sad more of the year than not, will damage the soil, kill off biodiversity by removing alternate food sources and bacteria for healthy soil, and just make the job harder. If it were me, id leave the dandelion since its impossible to get rid off anyway, its very edible and nutritous, even the root is tasty as a coffee like flavor. Also pls remember that pollinators often need more than one food type. If you really want a pure bluebonnets field it could work, but id suggest forcing your neighbor to grow their own wildflowers patch to conserve biodiversity.
I agree, but my HOA wont tolerate dandelions. Most of my neighbors use herbicide to remove them every year.
@@AustinTexasGardening I might have to intervene
New sub ❤ Love this! The kiddos finally got around to planting a small patch! We definitely cheated and bought 3 pots just to give them something to look at 🤦🏾♀️ Love the channel!
My daughter is still too young to appreciate it, but my friends have kids under 5 who really enjoy the garden and are surprised to see how fruit really grows, its a great family project!
With grocery prices rising dandelion greens and flowers may come in handy. Just pick early before seeds spread. Why fight it when it is free food.
Yes, but its hard to keep my yard clear by hand, if I didnt have an HOA, I would just mow over anything I felt was too tall and not worry about it
i’m in Elgin let’s grow!!
Howdy neighbor!
I'm so envious! What season did you plant the seeds?
Fall 2021
Hey there! The amount of dandis and weeds was a lot. If you pulled by hand, that was a bit of work. 😅 I got some bluebonnets in my lawn now. I want to make my meadow as deep as yours. Those look beautiful. I hear you're not supposed to seed a bermuda lawn. Just keep it mowed short and it will grow wide and cover bald spots. I reel mow my bermuda lawn up to twice a week when it's growing season. Some bermuda lawn freaks mow daily to get that golf course look. It's just about growing season now.
The weeds were absolutely crazy last year, still pretty bad this year, but not nearly as bad
@@AustinTexasGardening That's good to hear! I pulled all my weeds out last fall, and I went through the last 3 months with a nice yard over the winter. Now they're coming back, and it's time to get out there again. I hope we get good rain this spring.
great video....any idea where to buy bulk bluebonnets seeds? im in brenham texas :) thanks
I bought mine online, but I’ve heard tractor supply sometimes sellsells them by the ounce
I just bought my house in the Austin area, and I cannot wait to plant bluebonnets!! By the way, what is the sq foot size of your homesite/lot? It looks pretty spacious! Thank you for sharing this video. I've subscribed. Beautiful garden!
Thanks! My lot is 8700 sqft, my homes first floor covers about 1500sqft of that, and it’s divided into a 4000sqft backyard, and a 3200 sqft front/sideyard. I’ve been real busy lately, but stay tuned, I’ll be publishing a video on my peach trees shortly, followed by a garden tour in August
Awesome! What do they look like when not flowering? Are they good as ground cover? We have some spots in the yard that get good sun but the soil is a bit rocky and could use some greenery on top.
They arent very good as ground cover, because they only grow from ~march - june, after spring, they go to seed, and die. By july, they are shriveled husks that look bad and need to be mowed over, but in the spring, they look great!
How much water do yours get? I’m trying to plant some here in El Paso so obviously I’m having to water them myself rather than rely on rain. But they are looking good now finally after a couple years. They are in that phase where they are green and growing out sideways covering the ground, slowly starting to grow upward.
Very cool, I dont water mine at all. In Austin, we have a rainy april (~5-8"), jan-mar we get maybe 2" of rain, and we are lucky to get 1" from late may - september
Thats awesome, so even if i put down seeds now they wouldn't bloom next spring?
If you put down 1000 seeds right now, you’ll probably get one or two really confused bluebonnets sprouting every two months when we have good weather, maybe about 50 plants (which will look like a meadow) next spring, and then 500 plants in spring 2025
I have been told that clem m corn gluten from a feed store can act as a preemergent. It may take time but it works.
Do you think someone seeded that bluebonnet meadow in Presidential Heights?
I dont think so, I'd be its naturally occurring. That being said I've only lived here for two years, so im not sure
When is the best time to throw seed? I threw some in the fall of last year, and I think I see a few sprouting. :)
Fall is best, typically the seeds take 18-24 months to germinate, so you are probably seeing
Hi I also live in Manor (PM) and have a fruit mandarin tree but think it might be dead because of the winter. But then I do see some green sprouts coming from the base of the trunk/stem. Any tips or advice on if the fruit tree is dead?
I think it’s bad news, my neighbor had a similar issue after the winter storm two years ago, the base grew back as yours did: ruclips.net/video/IIIURQd04-8/видео.html
But the regrowth was from the non fruiting rootstock below the graft, so while your tree might regrow from below the graft, it won’t fruit.
Okay thanks so much for the information! Any advice on where to get another fruit tree in Austin? Really want some mandarins and if it could fruit this year, that would be best. RIP to my old mandarin sapling. :/
Boy, you got a problem with weeds! good luck.
Yeah it’s been pretty bad, I try not to use weed killer or preemergent because of the fruit trees in the back yard, but these weeds were so bad I had to use something. Haven’t seen a dandelion since march.
can I ask you one question what month we plan bluebonnet ❤
Most people advise planting seeds in the fall, but I believe you can plant them at any time. Consider that bluebonnets go to seed naturally in May and June, so the natural time to plant is May and June.
The seeds are out there for a year or two before they actually germinate, so the seeds are out there in both blizzard and drought conditions. In summary, it doesn’t really matter what time you plant them.
HOA's need to be outlawed on principle as it prevents people from enjoying their own property that they are paying property taxes on and in many instances on top of mortgage. I will NEVER EVER support an HOA! Not here in America where liberty is guaranteed in our Declaration and constitution...We already have local ordinances and anything including covenants that are at variance with our American principles of liberty ought to be banished from our way of life here.
I still don’t like HOAs either, but I wish mine would force my neighbors with aggressive dogs to fix their fences. Thankfully my HOA is pretty impotent and doesn’t do much more than issue citations for leaving out the trash. They didn’t say anything about my dandelions or bluebonnets
@@AustinTexasGardening ahhh of course...but they DO MAKE SURE you pay that damn fee though don't they? Its racketeering on a very local level and it also serves to INDOCTRINATE Americans to accept such obvious foreign interested communist corruption...I cannot help but imagine that somewhere somehow ALL of these micro HOAs are controlled by yet another possibly hidden federal level. They seriously need to be outlawed. Those aggressive dogs would normally be dealt with by local police as per ordinance for the jurisdiction...BUT because there is an HOA, the police can't do anything because the "occupant" of the house is subject to the "dysfunctional HOA.
THAT is how private banking cartel conveniently "removes" our RIGHTS by our own stupid consent from being subject to local ordinance via elected officials. See how that works and why it is grossly unAmerican?!
Bruh you’re going to saturate your neighborhood in dandelions
It was a full blown infestation, I’m thankful my HOA didn’t jump on my back, but yo