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3/16/2017 First Planting

3/9/2018

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On Thursday 3/16/17 I planted my Cajun Pocket Prairie. I used a variety of seed from a local source and from Native American seed. The area I have planted is an old cattle and sheep pasture. It is near a gully(drainage stream). I know I have planted late but hopefully i can get some seeds to take and and lay some roots in the ground. I have been watering every day or so since it has been dry to get seeds to germinate. Hopefully in a few days some seed will start to germinate.

Either tonight or tommorow I will make a list of current seed planted. Along with progress of a wildflower garden my Fiancé and I are also working on.

​GG
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Watering,Broomsedge Bluestem, wildflower garden, and seed variety in prairie

9/3/2018

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This past week has been super dry here in southwest Louisiana. Ever since I planted last Thursday I've been having to water quiet often. This past weekend I was in Goodbee Louisiana at my Inlaws and there is a savana remnant in a cow pasture that gets cut once a year. This year I rescued a few Broomsedge blue stems to transplant into my prairie and the wildflower patch. The wildflower patch was planted about 5 days prior to my prairie. It was some seed that was gifted to me from my brother out of Fredricksburg Texas for the coast area. There is a ton of plants popping up. We are very excited on what flowers they could be. I had also thrown some yellow and purple coneflower seed in there.

My prairie has had about 50 species of plants.

Little Bluestem
American Aloe
Aster
Balsamscale
Big bluestem
Broomsedge Bluestem
Brownseed Paspalum
Bushy Bluestem
croton
Epazote
Flordia Paspalum
Gayfeather
Giant Coneflower
Gumweed
Hairawn Mulhy Grass
Horned Beaksedge
indiangrass
lanceleaf Coreopsis
longspike tridens
Marah elder
native sedge
partrige pea
prairie agalinis
purpletop pasalum
red lovegrass
rattlesnake master
sunflower
smartweed
sage
seacoast little bluestem
slim tridens
splitbeard bluestem
sumpweed
switchgrass
tall dropseed
tall goldenrod
three awn
vervain
mamou plant
compass plant
easterngamma grass
mountain mint
swamp sunflower
black eye susan

I'm sure I missed some but that's the just of them!

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local seed source
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native American seed source
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broomsedge bluestem transplant in prairie
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prairie with Broomsedge bluestem transplants
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wildflower garden with Broomsedge bluestem transplants
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wildflower plants coming
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Within the weeds

6/4/2017

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Its 4//6/17 and I'm finally starting to get my first plants emerging within the bed of nutsedge! I have no idea what they are, but nonetheless I'm happy. Progress is showing.
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    Little Cajun Pocket Prairie

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    Southwest Louisiana

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