April 16 2005

• New plantings:
  • 100 square feet seedball mix, sage rage seed balls around house and septic field
  • Big blue sage
  • Engleman's sage
  • Mealy blue sage
  • Scarlet sage
  • Texas sage

Posted in 2005 Journal, Habitat

April 07 2005

• Planted:
  • Cenizo sage near house
  • Rosemary near faucet at edge of bed to begin perimeter protection
  • Black cherry (did not survive summer)
  • Lavender
  • Lemon thyme

Posted in 2005 Journal, Habitat

March 24 2005

• Planted around house:
  • Pink salvia
  • Rosemary
  • Butterfly bush
  • Creeping rosemary
• Continued rock walk on trail to river
• New septic feild plantings topped with potting soil and bat guano

Posted in 2005 Journal, Habitat

March 13 2005

Planted wetland fringe mix and other seed packets in septic field and approximately 182 square feet on countour in stripe pattern.

Collected dirt from watering hole in draw, forked in with hard pan soil, watered in with Medina soil additive, topped off with a sprinkle of sand and caged 62 feet long and 3 feet high.

Wetland fringe mix includes these species:

• Clasping coneflower
• Cutleaf daisy
• Scarlet sage
• Plains coreopsis
• Illinois bundleflower
• Black-eyed susan
• Pink evening primrose
• Maximillian sunflower
• Obedient plant
• Pitcher sage

Other packets added:

• 2 grams gayfeather
• 5 grams purple coneflower
• 500 mg yellow columbine
• gloriosa sunflower
• 1 gram butterfly weed
• 1 gram western ironweed
• 500 mg texas bluebells
• 1 gram passion flower

Planted lantana seeds along rock edge of road at the edge of septic field

Good weather conditions for newly planted seeds - forecast high 50's for 2 days - rain, high 60's for 3 days - sun

• Increased size of berms in Tipi field
• Began rock trail from barn to river trail

Posted in 2005 Journal, Habitat

November 23 2004

• Cut and mulched junipers below house, made swales
• Planted buffalo grass seed in clearing below house
• Added sand to buffalo grass seed in old trash pile near pole barn
• Made brush piles below house in clearing
• Made water diversion in field at pole barn
• Collected 3 bags of KR

Posted in 2004 Journal, Habitat