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scrubjayspeaks) wrote2021-01-21 05:22 pm
scrubjayspeaks) wrote2021-01-21 05:22 pm
Today's Keyboard Smash
My first order of seeds arrived! Which was unexpected, because I never even received an order confirmation email or anything, so I wasn't really sure the order was happening at all. These are from S&S Seeds. I think they normally do, uh, rather more industrial levels of seed supply than I need. They do consultation and supply for reseeding, idk, commercial lots and landscaping and whatnot.
But I needed seeds for a large enough area that bulk supply like this was pretty practical for me and just barely enough to qualify with them. So now I have three pounds of seeds! Three pounds!
I got the California Native Wildflower Mix, the Insecti-Flora Mix, and the Chaparral Sage Mix. I want mostly flowers--the goal is still to give myself Howl's flower fields--but that sage mix sounded really lovely. I liked the idea of shrubs and grasses mixed in there to give the area a full, natural look.
Basically, I have wandered backwards into rewilding a few thousand square feet of my land. Which, hmmm, seems like the sort of thing that won't stop with just one patch. I do, after all, have nearly ten acres, much of it unused. Its history of agricultural use has left it with very good soil being totally unused by anything more thrilling than a bit of weedy grass. We've already been putting in more and more trees, shade and fruit both.
The idea of taking all this and turning it into wild land--full of flowers and scented bushes and the towering flower spikes of yucca, full of fruit trees all tumbled in with ash and elderberry, full of stones and shady spots and logs--with my house just tucked away within all that, is an idea that fills me with such existential joy.
But I needed seeds for a large enough area that bulk supply like this was pretty practical for me and just barely enough to qualify with them. So now I have three pounds of seeds! Three pounds!
I got the California Native Wildflower Mix, the Insecti-Flora Mix, and the Chaparral Sage Mix. I want mostly flowers--the goal is still to give myself Howl's flower fields--but that sage mix sounded really lovely. I liked the idea of shrubs and grasses mixed in there to give the area a full, natural look.
Basically, I have wandered backwards into rewilding a few thousand square feet of my land. Which, hmmm, seems like the sort of thing that won't stop with just one patch. I do, after all, have nearly ten acres, much of it unused. Its history of agricultural use has left it with very good soil being totally unused by anything more thrilling than a bit of weedy grass. We've already been putting in more and more trees, shade and fruit both.
The idea of taking all this and turning it into wild land--full of flowers and scented bushes and the towering flower spikes of yucca, full of fruit trees all tumbled in with ash and elderberry, full of stones and shady spots and logs--with my house just tucked away within all that, is an idea that fills me with such existential joy.