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Burra Maluca wrote:The main reason I know to cut grass is to keep it as grass and not let it turn into scrubland.
When [grasses] are left standing, dying upright, the result is to block light from reaching growth buds; the next year, the entire plant dies. The death of grass leads to bare ground, and desert spreads.
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Emerson White wrote:
Can you restore the native herbivores?
There is nothing permanent in a culture dependent on such temporaries as civilization.
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Mt.goat wrote:
The native herbivores here are grazers,not browsers so grass isnt really doing them much good(although they will eat it,just not prefered).Domestic cattle were raised using shredding,in which tree branches from elms and other trees that hold their leaves
Emerson White wrote:Can you restore the native herbivores?
"the qualities of these bacteria, like the heat of the sun, electricity, or the qualities of metals, are part of the storehouse of knowledge of all men. They are manifestations of the laws of nature, free to all men and reserved exclusively to none." SCOTUS, Funk Bros. Seed Co. v. Kale Inoculant Co.
There is nothing permanent in a culture dependent on such temporaries as civilization.
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Plankl wrote:
I'm experimenting with something this year.
https://permies.com/bb/index.php?topic=5021.msg43696#msg43696
AR wrote:
I moved to another property
and am in the process of turning the whole grass area
into a diversified area for mixed growth of vegetables , flowers, currents.
I cut nothing, have nothing cut so far as of this date in June;
after all, isn't the invention of hay a rather modern invention
long after the era of ancient Greece and the Roman Empire!
And with the winds here would the grass not be wounded by the cuts,
wind that sucks out the water,
diminishes the grass' root growth that turns eventually into soil
after worms and bacteria can live and thereby enrich the ground?
Am I not supposed to preserve as much moisture for as many microbes as possibly?
Very early, long before the grass started growing
I seeded on top of it an experimental "row"of wheat,
another row of oats, then broadcasted a mixture of different clovers,
a mixture of annual/perennial flowers mixed with vegetable seeds, Daikon etc
and to protect the area from drying out, from the nearly continuous winds
I took some dry hay and let it softly float onto this area as a cover,
against wind, seed eating birds, against wind blowing away precious moisture...
as protection against cold nights...
The grass growth developed, if at all,
much slower than seeds of wheat, oats, Phacelia,
but the clovers remain slow as if after sprouting they are waiting for warmer nights and days...
But I let all grass, all "weeds" grow until the end of June and beyond into the fall
so I can see all the spots, wild plants, "weeds" and all areas where growth is "different",
i.e. with lots of dandelions, different grass species...
I also did an other area: put sunflower seeds, wheat and oats on the still not green grass-lawn area,
then floated loosely dry straw on top and covered with a row cover:
against, birds, wind, trap snow and rain to preserve moisture...trap sunshine, warmth.
Again, the seeds do better than the grass itself...
Later in the year I will simply press down other grown grass areas
and cover them with just enough straw to merely weigh grass stalks down,
not exactly to suffocate the grass growth,
but to gently overwhelming grass with mixtures of vegetable-annual/perennial flower-herbs...
AND to trap as many falling leaves... to capture as many leaves from the blowing prairie winds...
some tall grass areas have lodged, fallen over in the wind and rain like some wheat field;
this area, I propose, would have to be planted with potassium producing plants...
like what?
what I do, I would not call it "mulching":
suffocating one type of growth and pushing aside its live-bacteria
solely for some human nutrient utility
is not what I intent to do.
Everything here is forever no-till;
also cut -no weed, cut- no grass.
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Later in the year I will simply press down other grown grass areas
and cover them with just enough straw to merely weigh grass stalks down,
not exactly to suffocate the grass growth,
but to gently overwhelming grass with mixtures of vegetable-annual/perennial flower-herbs...
Plankl wrote:
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Do not fight the native vegetation.
Use it for food, organic matter, new top soil.
Grow as much perennials in the garden.
Vegetable patch is monoculture, imo.
To build soil for veggies, let the patch grow wild for one year.
Intercrop with beneficial plants.
What grows, grows. Let it grow to maturity and leave it there.
What we need is soil, then humus, then mulch.
Space plants further apart, leaving native vegetation and beneficials inbetween.
Lots of food most of them. Everything else can be used for mulch.
Plankl wrote:
I wonder when does your field start to mature?
When do you start to have straw like grasses?
Did they fell down green or were they straw like when this happened?
You had poor growth of your sown plants because of poor soil as i can see?
You might want to coat seeds of clovers and others with soil before sowing.
Plankl wrote:
how did you train your geese not to go to neighbours fields?
Plankl wrote:
Do you know of any exact thing to do, for cleaning the soil of pesticides and fertilizers.
For fertilizers, let grass grow. But how to clean the soil for real?
I'm sure all this things to make a place more diverse is going to help.
But do you know of any exact plant or what?
I heard of sunflowers and grains being good at taking crap out of soil.
But they need to be cut when still green i heard.
Do you have more info about this subject?
What will you do, to eat that dandelions with no worries some day?
AR wrote:
once they intended to set foot beyond my / their property
I rattled the metal can
with the corn
so they could hear it:
one, two of them gave off a sounds like geese do
and all started running and took off to fly towards me,
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