They're so much work even when you have native beds. I think most people think "native" means "maintenance free". I've given up trying to convince them there's no such thing.
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I can’t wait until the baby plants are big enough to hold their own, then I’ll happily let it be a hot mess, but right now they need breathing room to compete. The most difficult bit is if you want spread of things like prairie spring ephemerals you really can’t mulch.
Right. I'm working towards not needing to mulch the borders along our 300ft of dry creekbed. I've seeded it all and it's all coming up, but it's hard to tell weed sprouts sometimes. I do recognize the cheat grass and crabgrass though.
Also, the people that fire the managed prairie didn’t do the sections that touch my yard this year. We never really had a day when the wind was low enough. Which means I have to cut and pull the dead stuff.
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