by Bob Holland | Nov 15, 2022 | Seed Planning and Planting, Uncategorized
When To Plant Wildflowers? Native seeds can be successfully sown fall and winter, but…. Each fall the question arises, “Am I too late to plant wildflower seed? Will it be okay to plant my seed in the fall or winter?” The answer is YES because that is when...
by Bob Holland | Sep 19, 2022 | Seed Planning and Planting, Seeding rates and cost comparisons, site preparation
Start by measuring the wildflower seed project site How much wildflower seed do I need? Well, first decide how much ground you will expose to seeding wildflowers or native grasses. Get the square footage by measuring length x width. So then if you have 200...
by Bob Holland | Aug 26, 2022 | Seeding rates and cost comparisons
Comparing the Cost of Wildflower Seed to Lawn Grass Seed Question: Why is wildflower seed so much more expensive than lawn grass seed? Answer: It’s not! When figured on a per-unit-area basis, the cost of wildflower seed and lawn grass seed is very comparable....
by Bob Holland | Aug 3, 2022 | site preparation
Bayer AG, who acquired Monsanto, maker of Roundup herbicide (glyphosate), has announced that it will discontinue offering glyphosate in the residential lawn and garden market beginning in 2023. Glyphosate will continue to be sold in the agricultural market as well as...
by Bob Holland | Jul 21, 2022 | Where to Use Wildflowers
There is a lovely wetland wildflower meadow along a backstreet in our small Ozark town. The road cuts away from the main highway and skirts the edge of town along the base of a mountainside where the slope begins to flatten to form the White River Valley. Water seeps...