This SLOPED MEADOW Never Got Seeded - Ep. 215
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2024
- Back in 2021 when we were tackling the big job of cleaning out the old nursery area to turn it into an insect meadow-there were certain sloped areas, particularly near the Meadow House and around the ponds-that never got dealt with because the tractor couldn't work on the slopes. Now we're coming up with a plan to manage these areas, so that's what I'll take you through today.
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Loved the comments and totally agree with the use of goat grazing to launch this project.
Nature doesn't hurry, yet everything gets accomplished. With the least human involvement, the most beneficial goldenrod and new england asters volunteer themselves beautifully. Love the Meadow nice work on invasive removals.
Ive had much greater success with the tarping method by doing it for a full year, but I'm in western washington so our climate is different. I just had the joy of pulling back a tarp after 1 year and seeding this fall. Our friends who tarped for a season have a lot more of the grasses left to contend with
I love the sound quality in the videos you all create!!! The way everything is documented is incredible and the knowledge y’all are always willing to share is so great!! What microphones do you use?!?
Also love the approach and carefulness of other animals and insects that use the land y’all have too!
bas a market gardener we do this tarping all the time. either with a black silage tarp (you don´t want "construction" tarps as they can leak chemicals- into the soil and are often not very UV resistant. You probably only need it it for 3 Month. in Sommer and start seeding stuff in August. You can also use a clear plastic tarp - its a new thing farmers do with old greenhouse covers - you might get them free from a nearby greenhouse operation - its much much faster then black silage tarps - you probably weed, seed and rhizome free in less then 2 month. (with a couple of hot sunny days). There is somewhere out there a document about tarping in northeast of US - don´t have the link handy right now but you probably gonna find it (guide to tarping in the northeast or some such was the title)
I think it would be cool to plant a space like that with mostly fall blooming plants so you have a huge flush of color along with native grasses all in one season. Just a thought. Good luck!
thank you! sounds like a great plan.
You have all winter to think about it.
Indeed! All winter! Long winter!
Congratulations for developing FLOCK so beautifully. I really love all the pocket gardens you have built. I also admire the meadow house. Love it:)
We have the same type grass going down our slope to our pond. I am pain stakingly digging out areas by hand with a pick axe to make sure I get the entire grass out and it's root system. That way I can leave the Goldenrod and Asters that are in the same area. I then plant or seed the areas and pull things I don't want as needed. I have tons of seeds for Spring! I use a pick axe because we are on bedrock and it works amazing. I dont know what I ever did without it. Your area is too large for that method, but if you dont have a pick axe you ought to get one!
May I suggest: Pearly Everlasting for the meadow (Anaphalis margaritacea) :)
It spreads quickly, attracts lots of pollinators and would look great on the outskirts of the meadow,
with its' blueish-green foliage and potentially creeping habit contrasting the taller growth
along with the pops of adorable little white flowers (bracts?)
..And as the name implies, the flowers last for a VERY long time (zone 6)
Though sources say they can grow up to 3 feet tall, the ones I planted
slumped over after growing about 1.5 ft tall and became more like ground creepers
You should silage tarp now Sotheby’s weight of the snow will help the die off and feed the soil sooner
Thank you Ms. Summer. Good luck. 🦃🍁🍂💚🙃
Good idea 🌱👍🏼
Instead of tarps, check with your local billboard company for old vinyl billboards. They are huge, inexpensive, and a reusasable waste product.
At some point, why not feed a traveling goat herd on your Canary Grass? In California, one can rent a herd for a day or more. The young spring grass would be ideal, but I don't see why now wouldn't work as well for feeding the herd. Also the goats give free fertilizer.
There was a discussion in the local area about renting goats and/or sheep. We even discussed that initially for managing the entire meadow when we were clearing it, but we turned up with not many solid leads. A couple challenges we saw in the area: The sheep are booked solid with long-term contracts for the solar farms in the area. Typically goats aren't used in the solar farms because they can jump on and damage solar panels, so there is potentially more availability there; Secondly, the folks who rent out the goats/sheep have to be legit, and generally expect solid forage for their animals; and nothing in the area that can make their animals sick (can't guarantee that); they generally have to bring their own fences and such to keep their animals in and have a place to keep them in at night safely away from night predators (e.g., coyotes). There are a couple folks who are thinking of doing that; but no one that we've met yet who are pulling it off.
Have you thought about controlled burns?
Yes, we do small burns in certain areas, and had burned some of the grass up towards the gazebo early on. More like spot burning. We will likely do that after we try to snuff it out with the tarp. The spring time is a burn ban in the area (March - May), so we'd have to wait until summer/fall anyway. And like to get it down biomass wise because sometimes controlled burning is more like "smoke control", so we don't smoke out neighbors.
Let be wild 💚
Too bad you can’t rent a herd of goats for those areas. They do that for the steep hills near University in Berkeley, California. They truck them in for a day or more and then truck them out at the end of each day till the job is done.
There was a discussion in the local area about renting goats and/or sheep. We even discussed that initially for managing the entire meadow when we were clearing it, but we turned up with not many solid leads. A couple challenges we saw in the area: The sheep are booked solid with long-term contracts for the solar farms in the area. Typically goats aren't used in the solar farms because they can jump on and damage solar panels, so there is potentially more availability there; Secondly, the folks who rent out the goats/sheep have to be legit, and generally expect solid forage for their animals; and nothing in the area that can make their animals sick (can't guarantee that); they generally have to bring their own fences and such to keep their animals in and have a place to keep them in at night safely away from night predators (e.g., coyotes). There are a couple folks who are thinking of doing that; but no one that we've met yet who are pulling it off.
Thank you for such a detailed response. Things are always more complicated than they appear. You are such a good researcher. I should have known you explored every possibility. Much luck with the project. As with all you are doing on that land, it’s a wonder and becoming a beautiful place.
The Asian Mantids are quite bad for the native insects and hummingbirds. Our native mantids are much smaller and rare bc of those giant Asian ones. It helps to know their egg sacs do you can destroy the invasive mantids over the winter though I imagine that would be a challenge on that amount of land. The first year I removed them, we have a rare Carolina Mantid! Could you scalp that grass very low and dump oak leaves on top? That killed my lawn.
You mite consider a small scythe. That hedge trimmer looked terrible for your back.
We have a property so similar to this that we are working to restore. What are your favorite resources or education and inspiration?