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Erosion Controls
We have several types of seed and mixes to choose from that can help you maintain you soils and water control. If you looks through the lists of products and cannot find something that will work for you contact us and we can try to put together a short term control mix if you need something fast for temporary control or something that is more long term. The mixes we have in most cases will work for your type of application, but if you need something a little different give drop us an e-mail and let us know what we can do to help you.
Planting Guide for Erosion Controls
If your project is small and you are not using large machinery, we recommend using our flower-planting guide, if you have areas you are trying to prepare for a flowerbed or garden later. This will help you condition the soil and clean up the ground when you are planning on planting flowers, lawn or any other type of garden projects.
If you are using in you garden, just broadcast across the top and till one time in. If you want it to be prepared nicer then till with a tiller. After you have tilled, broadcast your seed across the top, use a leaf rake if you are planting shallow seeds and to leave scattered shallow across the soil or a garden rake will work excellent for the seed’s that need closer to that 1" depth.
Ground Cover and Cover Crops
There is nothing better for your soils and controlling weeds than a temporary ground cover or cover crop. Sometimes, it is hard to decide what to plant or your soil in your flowerbeds and garden just need some protection while they are not producing a crop for you. This is one of the best ways of protecting and building your soils. Planting these types of crops is one of the best ways to help control weeds. There are many weed seeds in the soils and if they have aggressive competition they have a very difficult time of growing and reseeding themselves and causing more weeds.
These types of crops can be planted and mowed or chopped and incorporated in the soil before they set seed and will actually improve your soils naturally. The green manure that is turned into the soils and worked in adding valuable nutrients to the soil and will help reduce erosion. They can be planted in the fall after you have harvested your garden or sometimes early in the spring to give you a little added benefit.
If
you have an orchard or vineyard they work great for ground cover in between the
rows and help control erosion. Just get them established and mow them down
before they seed off and they will give you great protection while adding
nutrients back into the soil and help your crops. When broadcast seeding these
plants you need to plant at 30-40 % above the recommended rate when planting
late or on steeper terrain for optimum benefit. You need to work these covers in
3-5 weeks before you plan on planting something else into where you had them. It
is important to do this to so the residue to break down in the soils.