Thank you, but that looks like a lot of work :-( and I have a brown thumb (everything I plant turns brown).
It seems reasonable to me that native plants should grow without intensive assistance (else they would go extinct). Why does this not happen?
It seems reasonable to me that native plants should grow without intensive assistance (else they would go extinct). Why does this not happen?
Reducing soil fertility probably needs intervention to remove rotting vegetation etc.
I am guessing that at one point in time native plants would have had animals and insects that were eating them and maybe reducing soil fertility.
- get rid of the grass
- mow it very short
and then plant wild flowers. Just throwing seeds onto the lawn will do nothing.
To get rid of grass either:
- dig it out (easy in the right soil; very hard in clay which is a lot of the UK)
- cover it with cardboard, cover the cardboard with soil, and plant on top.
I'm currently converting our front lawn to wild flowers. Luckily we don't have clay so I'm able to dig out the grass.
Definitely could help with that. Send me a mail with some close photos of the weeds in the area, and basic info about the continent and climate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardiness_zone)
You can cut the house or recognisable parts in the photos. I don't care about that and I don't need your exact location. Soil, exposition (sun?, deep shadow?) and climate is much more important.
Of course if your neighbours or administration throw weed killers to the soil or water systematically, nothing will grow, no matter what you try. Nothing except the more badass plants, but then you would have bigger problems than brown thumbs.