Appreciate the work, and the humor. “I lived with the spiders, I was damp from the forest, the beetles knew me and the tri-colored bees, I slept with the partridges immersed in the mint.” Pablo Neruda

My jaw literally dropped. So beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

Definitely planning to do this down here in Mississippi once I move out of this subdivision.

We bought 4 acres in a rural area subdivision zoned for farming and one acre is along a property boundary. It includes a sloped, wooded streambed and opens up to a uneven and sloped terrain that is is covered in pasture grass and dead trees and wood. I love it. The deer love it. The owls and woodpeckers love it. Last summer it looked beautiful and had lots of butterflies. Even so, I want to try to make it look somewhat more presentable as we have new neighbors now who bought the house next door despite the way it looks but now are encroaching, weed whacking and otherwise trespassing on our property and trying to take it. We have cut all the vines like bittersweet, kudzu and others, kept the grape vines, and removed an old wire farm fence. They seem undeterred. Our conservancy is not interested in coming out to help or advise as this area is only about .8 acres and there are no target species they are interested in. The people next door came from a town home HOA and have called the county on us who have said nothing because we are not out of compliance. We have general restrictive covenants but no positive covenants meaning as long as we dont violate the language we are okay but I thin they think they can just order us to clear terrain that has never been disturbed at all. This woman is so lucky to have nice neighbors. She has a beautiful yard.

Thanks for sharing and fielding all the questions.

Great work! So glad to see this beautiful prairie

You're a meadow rock star, thank you for all the great info!

Yeaaaa I feel I might have a problem with my project lol. I didn't lay anything down, covered a quarter of the area with just good compost/black dirt, quarter of lawn clippings and dirt on top of that, and the other half I currently have lawn clippings on. I'll add black dirt/compost in the fall before I seed the winter sowing seeds. 🤷🤔 Ps. I aslo planted on a 15ft by 90ft sand berm to prevent a basement from flooding lol. So mowing will be a problem also 🤦😅

Hello from Auckland, New Zealand ...Love what ya done !!!

Wow! This is so valuable. Love your answering questions from people more at my (beginner) level.

Excellent job!

really great video... so much more valuable than just some photos or a write-up or whatever, excellent job - hope everybody with a boring lawn in the US copies this...it really doesn't matter if you're in a different bioregion... the northeast, mid-atlantic...some of the plants may do well, some may change...but you can still have a nice native meadow that provides beauty and habitat and is part of rehabilitating the environment

Absolutely beautiful ❤️

Awesome video. So much information.

Thank you so much for doing this. Some IL love from McLean county

Great job. Thank you. Getting started out west of you in Sterling

I put cardboard down then completely covered with leaves ( I did mine in the fall .) Don't have to do more it breaks down on its own, then plant seeds in plain soil

I normally buy my wild flower seeds from the Dollar Tree or Dollar General they got these packets that are like pollinator flowers and hummingbird flowers and some other stuff mixed into the packet I just throw them on the ground and let them grow

W0W !!! That Looks Great, Merry Christmas from Auckland, New Zealand ...

@sarahmichehl2988

2 жыл бұрын

New Zealand? WOW! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too!

Absolutely beautiful! This is exactly what I want to do. Thanks for your very instructive video.

Great presentation.

This is the first and possibly only time I’ll ever say this, and I don’t wanna hear about later…yaaas queen!

Can we get a 2021 update? 😊 Thanks

@sarahmichehl2988

2 жыл бұрын

We experienced a severe drought from spring-fall of 2021 here in the Chicago area. The lawn prairie did great with zero supplemental watering! Some species stayed very short, while some were unaffected.

Use clear plastic to smother. Higher temperatures because of solarization.

Thank you.

Very beautiful

Nice view idol thanks for sharing this video godluck blogger new friend here

Cutting sod out only an inch down? That was certainly not my experience. I would say four to five inches deep to get all the roots out from years of grass and grass like growth before creating a mostly native grass garden in New Hampshire. This is a great video, thanks!

Weeds make flowers too :) but seriously looks beautiful! I let dandelions grow too. Very beneficial and medicinal. I want to turn my entire lawn into a prairie.

@butterbeanqueen8148

2 жыл бұрын

I cringed every time she said weed 😬. I let my backyard go to “weed”. It just took a few months over the winter to get it going. Currently 22 species of wildflowers are growing in my yard. I have pollinators everywhere. The PICTURE THIS app has helped me tremendously. I can identify now identify plants even if they aren’t blooming. Save the photos to the “my garden” section and there is a place to make notes about each plant. I LOVE dandelions. Good luck!

@thehedgerow

2 жыл бұрын

@@butterbeanqueen8148 goals!!! I’m gonna do that!

@butterbeanqueen8148

2 жыл бұрын

@@thehedgerow that app is the most fun I’ve ever had! I was that kid that was always asking what’s this flower? What’s this plant? I tried PlantSnap but it misidentified too many plants. Good luck!

I LIKE!!!

I lived in Hanover Park ,Illinois I must have been lucky because the first summer I planted Wildfolwers on one side of my house ,I used seed strips I don"t know if thy still sell them but ever type in the mix bloomed that same Summer ,it was the easest growing experience I ever had I enjoyed looking at them .I really don"t like Grass it is to much work and time costing.

Great video, but would like to know how to erradicate nasty Johnson grass from a wildflower meadow

Good for you, here in Canada Ontario, Ottawa i had to cut all my beautiful wildflowers, that’s law, some one reported to city, I’m not cutting my weed!!! So sad,

Spectacular! I’m always looking for places to replace non natives w natives.

im from mexico and im excited to do this,sadly here i cant reach for help

This is absolutely beautiful. We have an acre in Champaign county, so Zone 5B rather than 5A. To your knowledge, are there resources available in my area for a transformation such as this? Our property is predominantly monoculture grass, but we are looking at permaculture and food forest options for portions and I would like to do a significant portion of it as a wildflower meadow as well.

@ValeriaVincentSancisi

5 ай бұрын

find out if it inhibits all monocots, like corn or grains before using it.... if you want a food forest

Can I jus buzz my lawn to almost nothing then rake out the grass and spread wildflower seed an let it go ? I live in south Florida thought if I just throw down annual seeds they will just keep reseeding and I won’t ever have too reseed ? Not sure tho any advice ?

Do you have the same tick / lyme disease problems we do here in the Northeast? It's one of my biggest concerns with rewilding.

@benjibumble

Жыл бұрын

Native habitat attracts predator insects like spiders, wasps and lady bugs, etc. you’ll see less ticks. Not more.

why would you pull up golden rod?? It is such a good pollinator friendly native.

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I wonder if there's anything like that for Peoria County

Where did you get your seed mix from?

How do you smother it?

what is the web address link for the LEARN facebook group? when I search for it on facebook there are thousands of groups with the word learn in them.

How much seed did you use?

How does it look few months later?

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@kdkdkdkd66

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/o6OnrcFueK2ZgbA.html

What zone are you in? I'm 7a I think, (in Canada)

I buy my wildflower seeds from Dollar General for a dollar 25 a packet they got all kinds of seed 4 for $4 dollar 25 for 14 G

Isnt canada goldenrod native in the midwest..? Its a really good plant for butterflies, hoverflies, ladybugs and other native insects

@pgjz7c1

Жыл бұрын

It's absolutely native she was just recommending plucking out because it'll out complete the other species and take over the entire area.

Is yearly burning necessary? I thought it was advised to keep some plant stalks as habitat for overwintering insects?

@user-pw1dh1fv1v

2 ай бұрын

no not needed

How do you smother a lawn? Do you just atop watering??

@shannonmoffett6530

2 жыл бұрын

Cardboard, newspaper, tarp, plastic

why would you remove canada goldenrod? its such a key fall plant for pollinators..

@davidparker8752

3 жыл бұрын

It becomes very invasive and displaces other stuff. There are many native varieties of golden rod that are not overly aggressive. .

DO YOU HAVE A LIST OF THE SEED IN YOUR MIX?

What if I “smothered” the lawn by spraying vinegar and orange oil vegetation killer?

@themanofthehour1418

2 жыл бұрын

You r cool

Indian grass has been the most aggravating aggressive thing in my native prairie

@damony1301

25 күн бұрын

Have to pull much? I started some to line the side of field as a background and snow fence then have flowers in front

Would it be helpful to let some grazing animals in now and then?

@davidc8560

Жыл бұрын

Deer

What variety of potato was used to record this?

I noticed almost everyone she almost been talking to their name starts with a J☺

That will be a forest unless it's mowed every few years.

r lucky that you don't get fined from the city for over 6 inches tall that happened to me

@user-pw1dh1fv1v

2 ай бұрын

yes that can happen

No one ever says what state they are in. How are viewers supposed to know where in the country you are?

@user-pw1dh1fv1v

2 ай бұрын

she says near chicago IL, USA

Doesn't look like there's much Flowers

My senators are illiterate.

I guess if you are designing a meadow you need to be away from agriculture using this plant? Does it change the soil to inhibit all monocots?

looks nice , but its not wildflower meadow, not wild enogh . im from Romania , we do do have untoched wilflower meadows. the seeds mix is not the right one , the proportion of flowers is not ok also.

@klmrk9961

3 жыл бұрын

An untouched meadow would soon be covered in tall grasses and eventually bushes and trees. The probably cut the meadows with scythes every year to get the hay. Plus we have different species of flowers in Europe compared to America.

@DanSwanson2070

3 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to your Romanian wildflower video, professor

@butterbeanqueen8148

2 жыл бұрын

She kills the “weeds” naturally occurring in nature. I don’t understand this very “forced” meadow.

@solarroofing8072

2 жыл бұрын

your video looks about the same, lol. kzread.info/dash/bejne/f66r1sSyd9SwgJs.html stop being a hater!

mowing doesn't make sense to me??? sure you kill the weeds, but you also kill the flowers. right?

@user-pw1dh1fv1v

2 ай бұрын

you keep it really tall so only the taller weeds are cut not the smaller flowers

Probably packed with rats. I don't wanna do this now

@solarroofing8072

2 жыл бұрын

probabaly packed with natural animals, I've never seen any rats in my meadow. you are just giving lame excuses. if you have rodent issues just seal up your homes holes, that's the real issues. no one cares about mice outside.

@vmr6771

Жыл бұрын

Usually, you get mice and those are controlled by predators like hawks. I live in the city and was surprised to see a bird hunting a squirrel and other small animals. Nature starts taking place. It is neat. Also, dogs love to hunt rats. Few videos are posted on YT. Owners do it as a service to the community and as entertainment for their pets.