If I Plant My Seeds in Fall, Can I Burn in Spring?

Many customers wish to add seed to an existing planting in the fall.  They also want to keep the growth from the previous season to overwinter for habitat, continuing beauty and visual interest during the cold snowy months. This often leads to concerns about burning their prairie in the spring, as it would seem that [...]

FAQ: Won’t the Birds Eat the Native Seeds I just Broadcast?

It’s a question asked quite often and during every season whether one is considering a spring, fall or winter (frost) seeding. The most common method for putting down seed to initiate a prairie planting is a fall or frost broadcasting.  This is usually done between October 15 and March 15, after a year of site [...]

Hard Virtue

Most sales jobs seem to involve, at least to some degree, the overstatement of a product’s attributes in order to stimulate prospective buyers’ desires. TV commercials and advertising of all stripes routinely rely on hyperbole to promote the belief that the touted goods or services can deliver satisfaction of a nearly spiritual nature. By contrast, [...]

Higher Seeding Rates for Frost Seeding?

A customer recently asked: “I want to get your opinion on planting techniques:  The intent is to drill this seed in the spring.  But there is always the possibility that we won’t be ready to plant by then, which might lead us to doing a frost seeding next fall/winter.  Personally, frost seeding appeals to me [...]

Video: How to grow native Pasque Flower (Anemone patens wolfgangiana) from seed

[Steve] – These are the Pasque Flower. Arnel (our Garden Manager) was telling me that he planted the seed here in the fall of 2007. He planted in the fall so the seed naturally went through the overwintering – the stratification process out here in the gardens. He was telling me he put about 1/8 [...]

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