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Surprisingly wild flowers do best on impoverished soil. Serious WF gardeners will strip the topsoil off to achieve instant impoverishment. This is probably a bit drastic in a domestic situation but you can steadily impoverish it over the years by removing all top growth and not allowing it to decay back into the soil. WF gardens tend to look a bit scruffy after the flowers have died off but you need to leave them alone until the seeds have set and fallen to the ground to provide next year's show.Yellow Rattle is good because it lives parasitically off grass roots thus minimising grass growth and allowing flower seedlings space to grow.We've had 2 attempts at WF gardening but have given up because it can be hard work for the short season of beautiful flowers.My advice would be to get some Yellow Rattle down now and in the autumn throw mixed flower seed down after you've tidied up the summer growth but don't get rid of the. mower. You might change your mind in 3 years time.Brian
Surprisingly wild flowers do best on impoverished soil. Serious WF gardeners will strip the topsoil off to achieve instant impoverishment. This is probably a bit drastic in a domestic situation but you can steadily impoverish it over the years by removing all top growth and not allowing it to decay back into the soil. WF gardens tend to look a bit scruffy after the flowers have died off but you need to leave them alone until the seeds have set and fallen to the ground to provide next year's show.
Yellow Rattle is good because it lives parasitically off grass roots thus minimising grass growth and allowing flower seedlings space to grow.
We've had 2 attempts at WF gardening but have given up because it can be hard work for the short season of beautiful flowers.
My advice would be to get some Yellow Rattle down now and in the autumn throw mixed flower seed down after you've tidied up the summer growth but don't get rid of the. mower. You might change your mind in 3 years time.
Brian
