----- Original Message ----- From: Merla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: BD Now <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Deidre Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 5:03 PM Subject: Merla's Road Project Plan--Questions
Hi Merla Have you had a look at the dollar cost of your project yet? - you mention hydroseeding -does the cost of this come out of your grant money - this is an expensive operation and will use up your grant money very fast !! In Australia hydroseeding is only used to stabilise steep embankments and areas that have been bare cut in major roadbuilding projects, our local council (county) roadworks would not be able to afford this. > 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" Tell us how bad the weed problem is - what grows where - are they all over or just growing in certain areas - and what is the soil like - is there a problem with low calcium / acid soil. How much ground cover is there in normal growing seasons?? > 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? Try to keep your approach simple so that you can go forward rather than round in circles Cheers Lloyd Charles > >
