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- From: fran gustman <fgustman@juno.com>
- To: gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [gwl-g] wildflowers and meadows
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:03:28 -0400
Doesn't the highway department mow? I would think that would have the
same effect as burning. I understood that the reason that a meadow must
be shorn is to keep the woodies from growing up and shading it out. So
that can be done by mowing or by grazing or by burning. Burning provides
nutrients in the ashes and grazing provides it in the manure. Mowing
would provide nutrients if the cuttings were left, I suppose. I just
looked at pictures of glorious meadows in the Swiss Alps that are rabbit,
cow, or sheep trimmed.
Fran
Up here the cottonwood and alders roll in, then the birch...just
> little
> guys, but no flowering plant other than fireweed has a chance of
> making
> it for long! And I know that every it is natural for a meadow to
> progress into a woods and then a forest and this is what happens
> unless
> they are burned...
> Jeff L
>
Fran Gustman, fgustman@juno.com
Boston, MA, Zone 6
Urban Gardener Columnist, Allston-Brighton TAB
Editor, HortResources Newsletter, www.hortresources.org
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[gwl-g] wildflowers and meadows,
Hamptongar, 08/10/2004
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
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Re: [gwl-g] wildflowers and meadows,
stedman, 08/10/2004
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Re: [gwl-g] wildflowers and meadows,
Jeff Lowenfels, 08/11/2004
- Re: [gwl-g] experience with a wildflower meadow, Yvonne Cunnington, 08/11/2004
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Re: [gwl-g] wildflowers and meadows,
Jeff Lowenfels, 08/11/2004
- Re: [gwl-g] wildflowers and meadows, fran gustman, 08/11/2004
- [gwl-g] Wildflowers and meadows, David Ellis, 08/11/2004
- Re: [gwl-g] wildflowers and meadows, Jacqueline Heriteau, 08/11/2004
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