Greg Martin wrote:I have it in my head that I'd like to turn my lawn into a camas field, but I haven't paid enough attention to when my camas flowers and retreats vs. when my lawn really needs its first mowing.
I ended up planting 100 camas bulbs in my lawn shortly after this post on 5' centers just to see how they would perform. I found out that they are sticking around. They do flower late enough that I have to mow the lawn before they can set seeds. Not ideal for getting them to spread, but good enough for me if I want to plant a whole lot more. My plan now is to plant bulbs across the lawn on roughly 1' centers, which will take about 4000 bulbs. I just finished fall planting the first 1000. Will repeat that 3 more falls to finish up and am waiting for an ounce of seed to arrive that I can broadcast over the lawn before winter gets here. Excited to see how this develops. Will just keep plugging away.
I planted quarters at the two ends of where I stopped as markers. Plan is to find them next fall with my metal detector and then continue the plugging.
Biochar maker, forest gardener/edible landscapist, plant breeding dabbler, forager. 
