#YellowRattle is used proactively to create & restore wildflower meadows, where it aids #biodiversity by suppressing dominant grasses & recycling of #soil nutrients. This improves chances of other species of wildflowers becoming established.
This is one of the best #NoTill#plants to sow if you're into #rewilding projects at your home & around your community. It's really easy to get yellow rattles established & an excellent choice if you're unable or don't want to till any topsoil. Scatter seeds across mowed lawn & water once - nature will help with the rest. It doesn't require good soil. You can tap a few seeds in the wild in late Summer to start your meadow rewilding. Seed pods are silver gray & sound like a rattle.
Broke out the grass sickle today for a big clump of grass and quickly learned to cut up some roots as well with minimal damage to the soil. Seemed quicker than the scissors. ✂️ I pulled on the grass or their creeping stems and hacked at the tiny roots.
Leaving Virginia Creepers because they are native. Their berries feed many other animals but poison us, and their flowers provide nectar. They have a perennial twig that stays in the ground and green parts that grow back by the middle of spring.
I was only able to sow my nitrogen-fixing food crops before a thunderstorm told me to get the f indoors: bush Lima beans, snap bush beans, and snap pole beans. I made sure the beans were spread out. I still have cowpeas and all the rest of my crops.
Virginia Creeper is also highly flammable, so it's not a great idea to leave it near a home. I bet dry leaves are highly flammable, too, so WATCH OUT!