native grasses
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More Native Grass Seed — Yes For One Area, No For Another
Last month I reseeded about a quarter of my original short native grass area, to fill in gaps. The seed I am using is Thunder Turf, which is a mixture of three short native grasses. Now I have reseeded about another quarter of the area, along the left side fence. This is where I have Continue reading
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Tiny Grass Seedlings
One encouraging sign after the recent “monsoon” rain was to see hundreds of tiny new grass shoots from the native grass reseeding project 10 days previously. That tells me that these “Thunder Turf” seeds had a chance to germinate before the heavy rain came. I still only have about a quarter of the native grass Continue reading
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Reseeding The Short Native Grasses
One of the first things I did here in the spring was to clear Bermudagrass from the perimeter of the back yard, seed the area with the Thunder Turf mix of three native grasses, and then disappointingly have the seed washed away or moved by torrential rain. Here are links to posts describing those events: Planning, Preparation, Seeding, Rain Continue reading
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Mid-Height Prairie Grasses
I have a small area near the back of the garden where I tried to seed Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) in the spring. Nothing grew. Last month I bought a Little Bluestem in a pot, split the clump into pieces, and planted those. Also in that area, I planted one Gulf Muhly (Muhlenbergia capillaris). In Continue reading
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Native Grasses Don’t Need Mowing, But Mine Got A Haircut
I have defined two areas in my garden for native grasses: a 5-ft strip around the perimeter where a mixture of three short grasses (“Thunder Turf”) have been sown, and a smaller area near the back for three kinds of mid-height prairie grasses. The original sowing of the short grasses was only partly successful because Continue reading
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Little Bluestem
Little Bluestem is a moderately tall (5 ft) prairie grass. I defined an area for it toward the back of the garden in the spring and sowed seed there. But nothing grew! That was around the time of The Great Deluge, which disrupted my other native grass seeding project, so who knows where those seeds Continue reading
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Gulf Muhly
Gulf Muhly is a pretty prairie grass that stands about 2 feet tall, and one I saw often in Houston. I’ve added one here as well. It’s not time for them to bloom yet (late summer/fall), but with this being its first year here, it may not produce flower heads until next year. The main Continue reading
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My Pollen Baskets Are Full
Usually my first stop in the morning is to visit the native grasses and watch the busy bees for a few minutes. They’re hard to photograph, because once they land on a flimsy grass stem, then everything swings around wildly. Here’s one I managed to catch, though, with bulging yellow pollen baskets. I am not Continue reading
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Native Grasses — Chapter Five: Growth
Previous posts: Planning, Preparation, Seeding, Rain Crisis The story so far is that I prepped land for seeding native grasses, dispersed the seed, and then had most of it washed away or damaged in a rainstorm a few days later. This rain event was certainly disappointing, and at first I thought I’d lost everything that Continue reading
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Native Grasses — Chapter Four: Torrential Rain Disruption
Previous posts: Planning, Preparation, Seeding I wanted to plant native grasses in the first year here to get them established while I later worked on other projects. So this was almost the first project I started, although it took three months of work to prepare the ground for planting. I was happy with the seeding, Continue reading
About Me
Nature Lover.
Inquisitive Observer.
Student Gardener.
I invite you to join me on my journey to convert my sterile (from a nature point of view) new house lot to a healthy and diverse ecosystem, as I make discoveries, mistakes, and hopefully progress. I am not an expert or professional. The project started in February 2023 and the location is Seguin, Texas, USA.
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