Quixotic

In my continuing quest to turn the front septic mound into a lush field of Carex pensylvanica, I ordered fifty more plugs from Pinelands Direct, during the Pinelands Preservation Alliance's annual spring deer food sale.*

And they delivered a hundred plugs. I guess it was buy one get one free? Perhaps I double clicked the "add to cart button"? No matter, I'll need them all. And then some.

The first thirty have been planted. The roofing shingles have proven to be very effective at killing the covered vegetation.

A couple days later the number of planted plugs is now sixty-five. I've also planted a dozen Blue-eyed Grass plants, moved from the edge of the road, before the township comes and mows them down (the mowing ended just up the road from us, I assume it will resume sometime next week after Memorial Day?). 

And now all one hundred plugs have been planted, and just before the rains came (again). If you look closely you'll also see a  Milkweed that I transplanted from elsewhere on the the mound.

But you can see that there is quite a bit of area for the sedges to expand into. And while the mound is mostly dry, it may be too sunny for the sedges to really thrive. Although they do seem to be doing ok. And have done quite well around out front door (which is behind me) which gets similar sun.

Even so, I might need to add a more aggressive spreading ground cover to the mix.

We'll see.

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* For marketing reasons they call it a "Native Plant Sale", but they're fooling no one.