I do dream of that! In late summer, my new project was to find California native seeds in a large enough quantity at an affordable price, get rid of the weeds and get my meadow. A couple posts back are photos and description of the beginnings.
Today, I lightly raked the remnants of the sprayed dead filaree sprouts (I’m afraid at the expense of my healing back injury) and sowed the seed.
Here is what I did:
Since no rain is expected, I will lightly water my future meadow each day for a week or so. Also, seeds were planted in two ponypaks so to easily identify the seedlings.
As I stepped on every square inch of ground, to achieve good soil contact for the seed, I was thinking of a garden sign I found once,
“Who plants a seed, beneath the sod, and waits to see, believes in God.”
Now my personal God, I will leave out of the picture, but I do consider God and Nature one. I must have faith that this will work, and will post here the progress.
Next day note: Contrary to the weather report, it has rained overnight, an ideal situation!
—I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. FL Wright—
A word about S&S seeds
I ordered the seed by phone on a Monday and received it on Thursday. Not bad service. I had bought and planted Western wildflower seed mix from wildseedfarms.com, 4 and 5 years before, but this time I especially wanted native California seed and S&S Seeds had the most reasonable bulk price.
California Flowering Meadow Mix $42. per pound includes:
S&S Seeds, Inc. Seed Store
Carpinteria, CA
UPDATE: S&S has raised its prices to $48.00 and $54.00 per pound and require a $250. minimum which I begged them to waive, in Fall 2014, and they did.
How to sow wildflower seeds article by Judith Larner
Wildflower FAQ by Wildseed Farms
To find native seeds and plants in your state see the
North American Native Plant Society Home
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What am I really doing in the garden in October? Planning and removing weeds
Do you dream of a natural and beautiful wildflower meadow? Finding and sowing seeding
Let’s check for progress on the meadow! Weeding and watching the weather
How to weed a meadow in the Sierra Foothills More weeding…letting the sprouts thrive
Let’s check on Fall and Winter projects! Identifying seedlings
The wildflower meadow in May Small triumphs
My California native meadow in June Starting to bloom
The midsummer meadow The peak bloom
Stomping down the Autumn meadow Neatening up
Native California meadow in the second year
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