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Planting prairie #97 with the full monty
By Bill Kleiman, The Nature Conservancy The photo above is from this season of a 2010 planting, our 97th at Nachusa Grasslands. There is a lot of gayfeather and white indigo. Harder to see are the thimbleweed, coreopsis, lupine, various … Continue reading
Lesson learned: Plant all species you want on year 100 on year 1
A generation ago it was said that to plant a prairie you start by planting a “matrix” of rough and tough native plants to make the soil ready for the more finicky plant species to be added years later. These finicky, or … Continue reading
Lesson learned: Plant a high diversity of seed by starting early
To create diverse prairie, you not only need a lot of seed weight per acre but you need a lot of different species of seed. We start harvesting in May and go into November. The photo above was taken in spring from … Continue reading
Sometimes we wait
By Bill Kleiman Recently I wrote how it could be a good thing to use a tractor applied boom spray across a failed restoration to return it to grass. But there is the other way too, waiting. Fourteen years ago we … Continue reading
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