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wow did they leave seed behind!

Posted by macfairman 10 N. CA (My Page) on
Fri, Nov 12, 04 at 15:49

My teeny little CA native meadow did well last year:

purple needlegrass grew well into small clumps
several wallflower plants came up (all next to each other, though, must transplant some soon)
oodles of Clarkia flowers, several large lupines and a few nice Gilia.

Overall I was very pleased. I gathered a lot of seed (which I'm using in a new bed out front where a privet hedge was previously). I thought I was over-gathering the seed because I really went out and stripped plants of seed. Little did I know...

The meadow area is a carpet of green seedlings! I can recognize a lot of them because they already have a set of true leaves. I was worried about competition, they were so thick, and I scratched out lines with a hoe to leave some space. Am I micromanaging nature? Will this cause problems? I mean, I had hundreds of seedlings in some areas, just hundreds! The mature plants were 1' to 2' tall and you can't pack a hundred of those in a 1 foot square area.

CJ


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RE: wow did they leave seed behind!

I would, in a small area if you can spare it, let them go and let nature take it's course. They will fight it out. In other areas...prune to your desires. April


 
 

 

 


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