Converting lawn to native wildflowers - seed sowing!

[@TenleyAtwood]

Well done. The local pollinators are going to love them!

[@Andrew_the_Arborist]

Thank you! I hope so 🤞🤞

[@bananasgrowing]

“spent a few hours…” what a way to enjoy the day 😊

[@Unfortunately_Mickey]

I would be super interested if you did a series on good yard plants for various other areas of America. Not only the native plants, but the soil comp of some areas are so different to work with.

[@Gwen0921]

Thank you for info on native gardening💛💛

[@nicktozie6685]

I love what you do homie, get it going international. Beautiful work

[@prisonerr24601]

"still some weeding to do" Grass: how the turn tables

[@Andrew_the_Arborist]

They better stay away, or else 🤨

[@Istielthia]

I live just south of you in Md and we're showing trying to convey our backyard from non-native grasses to native (or at least naturalized) ground cover. We're starting with a path area near our shade garden & using a mix of common violet, white clover and stonecrop to fill in the area. We're also trying to minimize the amount of mowing we have to do by trying to keep all the ground covers we plant to 5 inches or under. 🤞🏻

[@Andrew_the_Arborist]

That's great! One step at a time. Best of luck

[@xSol_Raven]

I'd like to inform you the subtitles are completely covered by the channel name

[@Andrew_the_Arborist]

Thanks - I'll adjust for next time! This was my first time using an external application for subtitles, so I apologize for messing it up!

[@xSol_Raven]

@@Andrew_the_ArboristNo worries friend, happens. Enjoyed the video regardless.

[@linwong1494]

Excited to see the progress you've made! Clicked the instant I saw the update.

[@Andrew_the_Arborist]

Thank you! Hoping to document each step of the way, just in case this turns out to work well lol.

[@whittledwoods]

This is great! Quick question though, how do you keep invasive species/undesirable grasses out of a native plant garden? Is there any maintenance you have to perform or do the natives begin to outcompete the invasive intruders?

[@ahaanh8456]

I always put a layer of overlapping cardboard, soak it then top it off with compost while putting wooden planks side.

[@aaronacevedo321]

Where does one find native plant seeds? Most nurseries by me have the usual big store plants

[@Andrew_the_Arborist]

If you're in the eastern US, check out Ernst Seeds - they have a great number of native seed mixes. If you're looking for something more localized, check out this great resource from Homegrown National Park: homegrownnationalpark.org/directory/

[@Dimigg]

❤️

[@20firebird]

do you have any advice for finding what native flowers would fare best in my backyard?

[@gratedshtick]

Quick question, where can you find this kind of native wildflower mix? Did you just get a bunch thay were native to the area or was there a special mix?

[@johnd1655]

there are websites like americanmeadows or prariemoon that sell native seeds mixes. some of their wildflower mixes include non-native seeds, however. You can also find local seed shops for your area that only sell native seeds.

[@jaxwagen4238]

I have a ton of blue violet in my yard. Should I just let it do its thing or should I try to control the spread?

[@OnyxaeDrac]

Where did you buy the seeds? I want to plant more native plants but I'm not sure where to get the seeds from

[@Felis-Concolor]

I’m in New Jersey and picked up native wildflower mixes. It says not to plant the seeds until it’s above 60 degrees, is this true? I already planted it and it’s been low 50s all week.

[@ElizabethWarrenYeahYeah]

Yellow rattle eats and eradicates unwanted grasses leaving room for meadow flowers.

[@alexandramorrison1421]

Muhlenbergia schreberi gang let's goo

[@Andrew_the_Arborist]

What a chill lil grass dude lol. Love nimblewill

[@niah.9203]

If there's not much turf grass to worry about, world the tarp need to still be covering the area for 5 months? (No turf grass but other weeds present)

[@Andrew_the_Arborist]

Probably not! You can manually remove the weeds if you want. But if the ground is mostly bare and sunny, you can probably just rough up the surface a bit with a metal rake, and sow directly into that, making sure to control any non-native weeds that pop up.

[@niah.9203]

@@Andrew_the_Arborist awesome! I got scared because I have 2 months to select some seed and put it down 😂

[@beansbutterreviewwagon2542]

Sshhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeewwwww

[@CWorgen5732]

The ornithogalum is terrible. It's in our entire lawn, when i was a kid it was only under one tree.

[@Andrew_the_Arborist]

It's so bad! I don't know how it's spreading in my yard. It was not bad at all 3 or 4 years ago, but now it's much more abundant. Each year, I carefully dig up a bunch and I mow down the rest so they don't flower, but they still spread.

[@CWorgen5732]

@@Andrew_the_Arborist My best suggestion is to *not* shake the dirt off the clumps. They make baby bulb-lets right by their roots, and those are so tiny that you don't even notice when they fall off into the soil.

[@y0nd3r]

For the folks who are sick to death of christianized plant names, the star of bethlehem's real name is Ornithogalum umbellatum. Some people also call it grass lilie.

[@Fatpumpumlovah2]

lol, those annoying "bulbs" are wild onion IDJUT!!!

[@Andrew_the_Arborist]

Nope they’re not. I harvest all of Allium vineale in my yard for cooking and eating. This stuff is Star-of-Bethlehem - not edible. I think I know what grows in my own yard, thanks though!

[@Fatpumpumlovah2]

@@Andrew_the_Arborist Understood. but i was looking at the bulb, its singular not multiple knobs like Star of Bethlehem and at that size and thickness (of the stem) the extra bumped out bulbs would have started already, its why i based my answer that way. I could be wrong tho.

[@Fatpumpumlovah2]

@@Andrew_the_Arborist in addition even if it is its not a trash plant. it has medicinal purposes, as it is applied to wounds to cauterize and promote healing, and has also been used to treat asthma, bronchitis, epilepsy and hydrophobia