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Author Topic: Removing rye grass to plant wildflower meadow  (Read 5955 times)

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Re: Removing rye grass to plant wildflower meadow
« Reply #16 on: July 13, 2017, 06:23:24 pm »
If you're not veggie / vegan, you could get also some fat lambs off the good grass. Yes they will poop some of the fertility back, but they will use a lot of the land's "energy" for their own growth.

 

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