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- Sun Aug 01, 2021 4:24 pm
- Forum: Field Scale Meadow Restoration and Creation
- Topic: Lowland Meadow Creation - 2 years in
- Replies: 1
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Re: Lowland Meadow Creation - 2 years in
We have done something similar in our little farm in the Blackdown Hills, cutting a circumferential path and sowing in that, no harrowing. From the autumn 2019 sowing with a very soft winter we had nothing last year, whereas this year we re-sowed a little having kept seed frozen and had a much colde...
- Sun Jun 27, 2021 10:20 am
- Forum: Seeding
- Topic: Bee Orchids
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6585
Re: Bee Orchids
The Hardy Orchid Society organise seed growing workshops every year, and have a stock of legally collected seed available to members https://www.hardyorchidsociety.org.uk/. They also have a fabulous journal, anyone interested in wild flowers should consider supporting them. Germinating orchid seeds ...
- Tue May 25, 2021 2:07 pm
- Forum: Managing Meadows with Livestock
- Topic: Using ponies to get the grass down at the start of spring
- Replies: 3
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Re: Using ponies to get the grass down at the start of spring
Hello folks, we had a pair of Clydesdales over winter last year from Adventure Clydesdale in Dartmoor http://www.adventureclydesdale.com/. They were magnificent lovely creatures although on the wet clay land here in the Blackdown Hills they did cut up the areas of pasture around entrances. For anyon...