east ditch ~ 2011 ~ planting
east ditch ~ 11JL27
no show
fringed brome
black-eyed susan
Culver's root
Flodman's thistle
seed
container
fowl bluegrass
flat top aster
blue flag iris
Culver's root
closed gentian
tall meadowrue
swamp milkweed
purple boneset
ironplant
swamp milkweed
obedient plant
meadowsweet
transplant
spontaneous
spread
foxtail barley
Nuttall's alkali grass
sloughgrass
many-flowered aster
white panicle aster
Canada goldenrod
water horehound
obedient plant
swamp milkweed
red samphire
water horehound
wild mint
three-square bulrush
woolgrass
It appeared that the sloughgrass seed, which we frost seeded on the east side of the pond, moved to the east ditch.
east ditch ~ 2010 ~ planting
east ditch ~ 10SE13
no show
fringed brome
black-eyed susan
swamp milkweed
Flodman's thistle
seed (frost 2009/2010)
Nuttall's alkali grass
black-eyed susan
Culver's root
green bulrush
woolgrass
container
Culver's root
three-square bulrush
woolgrass
meadowsweet (eaten)
transplant
spontaneous
many-flowered aster
white panicle aster
Canada goldenrod
water horehound
wild mint
spread
foxtail barley
sloughgrass
red samphire
Because of too much rain, we were not able to do much weeding in the east ditch. The clover, that appeared the year
before, multiplied tenfold. We sprayed, mowed, and burned it, to no avail. The stretch along the east side, that had been
oversprayed with herbicide in 2009,* filled in with weeds.
east ditch ~ 2009 ~ planting
* When the adjacent field of alfalfa was hastily sprayed with herbicide — perhaps because of the delay caused
by significant flooding that spring — some of the chemical drifted onto the young plants in the east ditch. This killed
everything in a 1.5 to 2 m wide strip along the full length of the region. This *strip* subsequently filled in with weeds
and was harrowed several times during the summer.
east ditch ~ 09AU04-02
no show
fringed brome
swamp milkweed
green bulrush
woolgrass
seed
fringed brome
Nuttall᾿s alkali grass
sloughgrass
black-eyed susan
marsh hedgenettle
swamp milkweed
container
Flodman's thistle
transplant
indigo bush
spontaneous
spread
foxtail barley
Nuttall᾿s alkali grass
sloughgrass
red samphire
We were not able to get to weeding around the desirable grasses that were growing in the east ditch. In mid-August, we mowed
the region to prevent the much fewer in number weeds — mostly clover — from setting and dropping seed. This didn’t
work: The clover spread a lot and the Nuttall’s didn’t quite return; apparently it does not like to be mowed.
east ditch ~ 2008 ~ planting
east ditch ~ 08SE23
seed
Nuttall᾿s alkali grass
sloughgrass
container
swamp milkweed
transplant
red samphire
spontaneous
foxtail barley
Much of the Nuttall᾿s alkali grass was germinating by mid-September.
