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Flowers on the board of trade???????

big tee

big tee

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My wife loves her flowers---I always thought that if it wasn't traded on the Chicago board of trade it was a weed. But I must be mellowing out in my old age. We put 1.41 acres above the pond in the reserve program to act as a filter for sediment. I wanted to put brome grass in like the rest of my strips but no dice-I had to put in the "Bee Poop" /pollinator mix. That was last year and I was allowed to mow it for 2 years after. I mowed it every week last year and twice this year in April and then I let it go. I think it is looking good-wife says them are Daisies blooming. Last fall the Mrs. and the one daughter saved their seed heads from their flowers and we shelled them out this spring and threw them in the air on a windy day on the 1.41 acres so the mix is starting to show up. Cone flowers in the one picture.-----Old Tee
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I love flowers too, just ordered 26000 brown eyed Susan seeds. More flowers happier bees and butterflies.

A Friend has a pond. He mows around his pond then complains he has moss, duck weed after he dug out the cat tails. My take is if you mow, the dead grass is like fertilize adding to algie growth.

Nothing wrong with flowers.
 
Geo---Don't get me wrong-I like flowers also. There is a green house two miles from us and the wife frequents it quite often. Nice people who run it but I give them a rough time about ordering a new car every time they see my wife coming in the parking lot.....
 
If I remember a weed is a plant growing where it's not wanted. By that definition a corn plant growing in a bean field is a weed.
But I like your patch . Years ago if I got it right in hoards dairy man they had stories and I'm thinking it was something about the lazy man they were good because sometimes if you step back and look you can do more good by not doing anything rather than something. My road banks are the same way I can mow them put up a fake bird and call it good or do nothing and let the real birds have a home
 
big tee,
I too have an addiction to flowers. When I go to lowes or menards, I use the excuse, better buy this flower, we don't have one, YET.

We have so many flowers, we are moving some to the gravel pit. Our flowers multiply so fast in the sun and clay soil, they need moved, thinned out. Not only do the flower beds in the yard look nice, the gravel pit coming around. Pics of the gravel pit really don't show the grand scale of it. Over 10 acres of ground to cover, hills, trails, About another 10 acres of lakes and woodlands.

We worked on one bed last winter clearing out over 400 ft of brush, moving in 4 inches of mulch. That bed will really pop come next spring. George
 

I really like the native wildflowers, but you have to be careful. Some of those species, particularly daisies, will just take over and crowd out all the other species.
 
Don't know much about what they seeded-I had the ground ready and had spread a bu. of oats that were about 6 inches tall when the conservation people brought their million dollar drill and $10000/lb. mix out to seed it. Wasn't mixed to good and left streaks. Old Tee PS--My mom really like flowers.
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Many of the Vineyards in my area are paying up to to $3500 an acre to have wilflowers planted price varies because of the wildflower mix.Then they cut them with a flail mower in the late Fall to scatter the seed for the following year.
 
that is beautiful!Our pond doesnt get enough spring fed water,its dropping right now below the drain pipe,tried to catch a spring in the field,it just stopped running too.Iput the rye straw in,but the moss is taking over now.
 
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