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Re: planting preparation

Jef,

I have several comments.

Don't we all tend to endorse the method we used in planting prairie
because it worked for us? I know that when I was in the planning stage I
talked with many different people and heard many different methods as
each person had their own method and they all worked.

I guess if I were only doing one or two prairie reconstructions I would
be fearful of that "Plateau learning curve."

How many forbs are "labeled"? Are they the more tolerant ones, those
that have done well in our altered environment, growing in road ditches
and farmers fields?

Are sedges "labeled"?

I have a tractor and a mower so mowing is easy. I found foxtail and the
mustards very easy to control the first year by repeated mowings. The
second year they were gone. I don't have any set up for spraying.

Also, any method that kills any of the 250+ forbs I seeded in would
automatically be suspect to me. Generally grasses are easy to establish,
it is the forbs one has to work at.

MJ

--
"Doubt and skepticism are for most people unusual and, I think,
generally unstable states of mind." Robert H. Thouless as quoted by E.O.
Wilson, Diversity of Life

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