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The Dry Garden: A sunflower or two. Or 200000
There’s overdoing it, and there’s what I did. After sowing a pound of sunflower seeds last winter, eight months later, the phrase “height of summer” can now be taken literally. In lieu of a front hedge, I have sunflowers. One astounded woman even came to my door asking when and how to plant them. Neighbors call my home “the sunflower house.” Out back, my yard is a vertical meadow.
I’d known that our native sunflowers easily reached 12 feet tall, but I’d never appreciated what happened when you planted roughly 200,000 seeds. The upshot out back from the fraction that germinated feels less like a garden and more like a field. From a distance, a sea of yellow ripples in summer breezes. Following a long path into the back garden, the person strolling becomes engulfed. There have been games of hide and seek. Then there’s the scent, less floral than edible. When the sun hits the sunflowers, the garden smells like a pan of freshly baked cookies.
This tease should come with a caveat – the sunflowers in question are not the massive-headed domesticated sort that can be crushed for oil or provide seeds for trail mix. They are wild, the type that sunflower growers and most seed companies call “weeds.” The first thing that strikes you on crushing a dried flower head is how small the seeds are compared with their commercial and culinary cousins –- smaller than a grain of rice. Only after ordering wholesale from S&S Seeds in Carpinteria, a company that specializes in wild land restoration, did I check what I was doing by sowing a pound. Their formula is ¼ pound per thousand square feet. It was dumb luck that I wanted to cover about 4,000 square feet, though it took some culling to free up the vegetable plots.
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Want to be a gardening master? Often referred to as bermudagrass on steroids, it is a perennial rhizomatous grass that is one of the most invasive grasses in the world. Spread through Louisiana is mainly attributed to the movement of soils infested with torpedograss from the Bennet and more » |
Water, water . . . but only on the fairways?
For the uninitiated, overseeding is the process of switching golf courses in the desert from the Bermuda grass that stays green in the summer to the rye grass that stays green in the winter. Bermuda goes dormant and brown in the winter,
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Too early for Bermuda grass? I would like to have a Bermuda grass lawn. Is it too early to put out seed? This is a great time of year to put out Bermuda grass or other warm season grass -- centipede, St. Augustine or Zoysia -- seed or sod. I would recommend testing your soil so and more » |
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Tending golf turf takes attention to detail Overseeding is putting a layer of grass seed over existing grass to promote new growth or replace existing grass with a new type for the winter season. Bermuda grass turns dormant and brown; applying rye grass over the Bermuda grass keeps the course |
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The Dry Garden: A sunflower or two. Or 200000 I should add that the sunflowers did not have to contend with the ultimate noxious lawn plant, Bermuda grass. For those of you wondering if I haven't switched out one problem for another, you may have a point. However, I'm not worried about feral |
