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Plant Vegetation Through Straw Blankets

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POND week FINALE day6 !

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What happens here

With the straw blankets in place and stapled, Stan and his team proceed to plant various shrubs and plants directly through the blankets on the slope. They dig small holes through the blanket for each plant and then backfill with soil. Stan explains that placing soil on top of the blankets, especially in this situation, helps to further integrate the blankets into the slope and promotes deeper root growth. He highlights that even with anticipated heavy rains, the dirt washing through the netting will only improve the blanket's effectiveness.

Goal: Integrate new plants into the slope through the installed straw blankets.

Tools and materials

  • Potted Plants — Adding greenery and further stabilizing the slope
  • Shovel — Digging holes for plants
  • Soil — Backfilling plant holes and covering parts of the straw blanket

What they say

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straw matting it's going to incorporate that straw blanket deeper into the slope we've got animals here we've got cats we've got dogs we've got Birds we've got Zach we've got every kind of creature that you can possibly imagine even the Frankfurter is up there and he walks on this so the more that this matting this netting is incorporated down into the slope the better that that's going to stitch that slope together so I've got zero issue just by putting it in especially on the edges around the edges it's great to put that in the on the edges in this situation just use your common sense for whatever you're doing I was sitting in the office of a big contractor I mean this guy did 10 20 30 50 hundred million doll projects massive projects and simple white sign said how do you eat an elephant and big black letters I'm going what the heck does that even mean so it just made me Ponder how do you eat an elephant and then was one bite at a time so when this guy was tackling massive projects he would just calm down and say you eat an elephant one bite at a time and that's what we did today we basically got through we got this side done we've got a finished planting we're not completely wrapped up I got a jack Pine here I got to figure out where that goes I got to get some snow on the mountain transplanted from the front to the back cover up that slope I've got to do some probably more snow on the mountain or something in here then we've got to do all the landscaping around the outside of the pond get that in and we're trying to work our way inside out so that's what

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