You people are on a wholly different level from me! My windowsill scallions are going strong ๐
this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2024
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that's great! Our cat kills windowsill plants so you're way ahead of me there.
Keep in mind that I'm incredibly fortunate to have space in an agricultural district of a rural town and have neighbors who have years' worth of gardening experience and collected plants that they've shared with me
i have a Meadow Plan for the last ~20 feet of our back yard now. first step is laying down cardboard and mulch and leaving it there until next may.
i'm picking up a white oak tree sapling on saturday to plant in the same spot where we had to cut down a big ol' maple in our front yard (it was dying a slow death and a danger to our house).
That's fantastic! When did you make it, in relation to that workshop you went to? Seriously, your yard makeover plans deserve their own post 
the plan itself isn't that difficult, just takes a lot of time to kill all the invasive plants off so the native plants have a chance to grow. you completely clear the ground first, let the invasive seeds germinate, kill them again, then seed it with native grasses and plants (prairie moon has a lot of US mixes, so i'll probably use them). you won't get blooms for at least two years, i think. and you need to cut everything down to about 1.5 feet the first fall to get the invasive plants before they go to seed. unfortunately, that means you're also cutting down the plants you want to grow, so they take another year of seeding before things really get going, but they should help keep out the invasives at that point.
(mod hat on) It might not seem like much ado for you, but I think posting about your plan would be a good starting point for some conversations and might encourage some other folks to emulate you /mod hat
Did they talk to you about solarizing next spring using tarps? Given what I know about your rough geography, that might cut down on your time between weed seed germination and die off. In the meantime, check with the pet store you're a regular at and ask after their pallet slips for your cardboard sourcing. Because their use might be on food bearing pallets, they have stricter rules than other shipping box cardboard and also don't have flaps to worry about overlapping.
I think posting about your plan would be a good starting point for some conversations and might encourage some other folks to emulate you
once i actually start doing the work, i definitely will!
Did they talk to you about solarizing next spring using tarps?
they did, but this area of the yard is pretty shady, so the guy leading the workshop specifically recommended using cardboard and mulch for maximum annihilation.