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Scattering Grass Seeds

Categories: Grains and Forage Crops

We live on the west side of Sonoma valley, and want to seed some of our

fields with a good wild grass. We want to carry bags of it in our

pockets to scatter when we ride. Timothy we should like, but this is not

its habitat, is it? Can you suggest a grass or grasses that would do

well here?



There are really wild grasses worthy of multiplication, but no one makes

a business of collecting the seed for sale,
o that such seeds are not

available for such purpose as you describe. Of the introduced grasses,

those which are most likely to catch from early scattered seed are

Australian and Italian rye grasses, orchard grass, wild oat grass and

red top. You can get seed of all these from dealers in any quantity

which you desire at from 15 to 30 cents a pound, according to the

variety, and make a mixture of equal parts of each grass, which you can

carry and scatter as you propose. Some of them will catch somewhere,

particularly in spots where the shade modifies the summer heat and where

seepage moisture reduces soil drought. You are right about timothy; it

is good farther up the coast and in the mountain valleys, but not in

your district.



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