cydiku said:
* I love your enthusiasm, you have encouraged me. So I will read up on collecting, preserving and planting native seeds. So advice please on that and when to scatter the collected seeds - after I have it bushwacked in the fall or in the spring when the grass starts growing again ? Can I continue to bushwhack when I have native plants?
Don't mow in the autumn... mow at the end of winter.... just before stuff starts to grow.
The idea behind bushwhacking is to prevent the place from becoming a forest... While allowing the forbs to self seed.
I leave the plants standing through the winter so that I can enjoy seeing the songbirds.
As far as when to scatter seed?
I probably wouldn't scatter the seed.
When I bring in new plants, I may dig seedlings (with permission), Or I start seeds in seed bed and transplant later.
I checked your pics... I think that continuing the way that you are going... should work fine.
Did you visit the wildflower seed site I linked?
their catalog?
https://cdn.coverstand.com/261...