Love the reality check of how your kids *actually* use the grass. I live on a tiny urban lot. My yard is too small to play soccer and other stuff much anyway! We live a few blocks away from an elementary school with a large field.
I’ve been doing exactly this! Growing Buffalo grass plugs, wooly thyme and clover. My area I’m fixing is deep gravel that holds so much heat and makes us need too much air conditioning. I’m using biodegradable grow bags that are deep. Also doing both plugs and seed.
@@frenchpotato2852 I initially started with Dutch clover. Wished I’d used a different one but we are all learning. Yarrow and thyme are my new choices and not sure of thyme is native but it’s edible and pretty
@@frenchpotato2852 Buffalo grass and I mixed in Dutch clover, wholly thyme and white yarrow. Wished I’d not used that particular clover but…it’s filling g in very nice
It's pretty hard to get native clover seed, and if you can get it, it's quite expensive. I'm on the West Coast and I've been trying to grow native species for the last couple of years and it can be hard. Slugs preferentially devour the seedlings, also most of our species are annual and many don't occupy the same niches as the more commonly available Eurasian clovers. For example I found that I could not grow a native species I was working with in my compacted clay. If Buffalo clover is native for you I would try to get that, but it's a process! It's still better than a conventional lawn.
Great video, shoutout to team Little Bluestem! I just converted my front lawn to prairie, it was so much work! But I'm super excited to see the benefits to th elocal pollinators in the years to come.
Thank you so much for posting this! It was SO HELPFUL! It have found a lot of info online about converting full acres and then also how to make very small native gardens for your house, but not much for the 'in between' size like what you did, which is what I am wanting to do, so thank you for doing this!
I noticed your gravel paths are extremely clear of weeds. I know you don’t like fabric for garden beds, but did you do anything to prevent plant growth in your walkways?
I love that you are posting more often lately, you videos are so great and inspiring! Thank you
Thank you so much! It’s time consuming but I love being able to give more info!! ❤
Love the reality check of how your kids *actually* use the grass. I live on a tiny urban lot. My yard is too small to play soccer and other stuff much anyway! We live a few blocks away from an elementary school with a large field.
I’ve been doing exactly this! Growing Buffalo grass plugs, wooly thyme and clover. My area I’m fixing is deep gravel that holds so much heat and makes us need too much air conditioning. I’m using biodegradable grow bags that are deep. Also doing both plugs and seed.
Are you using buffalo or another native clover instead of the invasive Eurasian white clover?
@@frenchpotato2852 I initially started with Dutch clover. Wished I’d used a different one but we are all learning. Yarrow and thyme are my new choices and not sure of thyme is native but it’s edible and pretty
@@frenchpotato2852 Buffalo grass and I mixed in Dutch clover, wholly thyme and white yarrow. Wished I’d not used that particular clover but…it’s filling g in very nice
It's pretty hard to get native clover seed, and if you can get it, it's quite expensive. I'm on the West Coast and I've been trying to grow native species for the last couple of years and it can be hard. Slugs preferentially devour the seedlings, also most of our species are annual and many don't occupy the same niches as the more commonly available Eurasian clovers. For example I found that I could not grow a native species I was working with in my compacted clay. If Buffalo clover is native for you I would try to get that, but it's a process! It's still better than a conventional lawn.
Great video, shoutout to team Little Bluestem! I just converted my front lawn to prairie, it was so much work! But I'm super excited to see the benefits to th elocal pollinators in the years to come.
I love what you are doing! I hope and pray I am able to do the same thing one day soon!
Thank you so much for posting this! It was SO HELPFUL! It have found a lot of info online about converting full acres and then also how to make very small native gardens for your house, but not much for the 'in between' size like what you did, which is what I am wanting to do, so thank you for doing this!
A prairie area could be called a prairea
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How long do you leave the fabric on top of the seed?
Great video! I was specifically looking for a how-to on growing native grass plugs. Where do you buy those plug trays?
my backyard is naturally wild grasses. id like to amend it with some more decorative ones. thanks!
especially shorter ones. ours gets crazy tall. would also be nice to keep the sticker weeds down for the kids
Please for the love of god don’t use pampas or Chinese grass
Thanks so much for your video! Just want to mention that your Sure Roots plug trays are 50s, not 72s.
You’re right, I’m so used to using 72s for standard everything but these are 50s, thanks!!
Great video!! I'm looking to start soome plugs as you did. Can you tell me where you purchased the deep cell trays? Thank you!!!
I noticed your gravel paths are extremely clear of weeds. I know you don’t like fabric for garden beds, but did you do anything to prevent plant growth in your walkways?
Early weeding and often weeding! I also keep my paths blown off so organic matter and seeds don’t accumulate there.
Where did you get the extra deep seeding trays?
What do you do if you have an area completely filled with weeds??
Do you use any cold stratification?
I store seeds in the freezer so in that way, yes!
What is that little tiller? I need that!
I want to do this but I have a lot of crab grass, ideas?
Where do you buy the seeds?