Hi all,
Am I struggling with the unknown! It's very creative, but I realize I
don't have enough farming experience. It's like getting a complicated
ambitious recipe for a party off the Internet that you've never made
before..It seemed like a good idea, but what if it doesn't turn
out?...all those articles about allelopathic experiments at
universities...I called Bitterroot Reclamation Inc <revegetation.com>,
but they don't want to give away their considerable expertise . All the
consultants are busy making money on THREATENED, ENDANGERED AND RARE
SPECIES
RESTORATION
Beartooth North Highway Project
TRANSPORTATION AND UTILITY CORRIDORS
Salmon/Lost Trail State Line Highway
Project
RHIZOSPHERE MICROORGANISM
RESTORATION Seneca II
Mine Mycorrhizae Benefits Study,
Tree and Shrub
Reestablishment/Monitoring Project
Is this new idea of the allelopathic plants too drastic? Is there
anyone who knows about rye, oats, barley and vetch ? I have this
beautiful western wooded country road, but it has "noxious" weeds on it
so now we are going to hydroseed cereal rye, oats, barley, vetch mix to
possibly dominate the situation and crowd out the weeds, but I don't
know anything about these plants. Is this the right thing to do? Will
I also get rid of the native grass that's there now?
What happens when the cereal plants all get big and go to seed? I can't
plow them under because I don't want to disturb the ground and bring up
seeds lurking there. Do we cut them and make mulch or do we cut them
and compost them with BC or compost tea? The oats and barley will go
away, but the rye is supposed to reseed. Will there be enough minerals
and microscopic babies in the soil to grow them at all if I use just the
energy from the field spray, 500, 501, BC, 508 with a radionic device?
Is the energy enough? Should I just sprinkle the rye in the worst
places? We have been offered a straw shredding, blowing, mulching
machine. How thick do we spread the straw? I can't even find straw
that doesn't have chemicals on it because of the certified hay law.
We have a custom reclamation mix waiting in the wings for fall--How will
we plant this--in the stubble? Should I put more BC or compost tea on
to compost the stubble? What is the best timeline for all this? Will
we be moving too fast? Should we take a couple of years getting rid of
the weeds and then seed the grass and native wildflowers? If I do that,
will I get another cost-share grant next year or the year after?
Adlepated Merla
