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Attract Wildlife Improve Our Environment |
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Kester's Wild Game Food Nurseries INC |
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Perennials do not produce very much top growth or seed the first year. They put all their strength into producing a good sturdy root system. They put all their strength into producing a good study root structure for survival. So do not get discouraged if in the first year your areas look dismal. Also sum of the verities listed be low can be quit aggressive when there are established so be cautious when |
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Perennials Seeds |
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planting. Some seeds have been known to lay dormant until subjected to suitable conditions (moisture and sunlight) for germination and growth. Be sure to give your perennial planting enough time to become established. You may have to mow or cut perennials the first year to control annual weeds. If the annual weeds become a problem in your planting, they should be mowed to a height of 4 to 6 inches. Make sure you do not have too much mulch (from cutting or mowing) on your planting, this can smother the new growth. When preparing a seed bed for your perennial planting, you may need to spray the weeds prior to planting to eliminate weed competition. |
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Birdsfoot Trefoil is a long-lived herbaceous perennial legume. It has been known to survive up to 30 years of pasturing. It produces a beautiful cluster of bright, canary-yellow, orchid like flowers. It is beautiful for parks, steep cuts, dams, dikes, around ponds, highway roadsides, driveways, even backyard lawns. It can be mowed and will continue to bloom after each mowing until frost. It controls erosion and withstands semi shade. Upland game birds, ducks, rabbits, deer and other animals eat its foliage and seeds. Seed 6 to 8 pounds per acre Price List |
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Hardy ground cover, forms a dense carpet of fern-like foliage and is covered with delicate pink flowers from June until frost. Controls erosion, chokes out persistent weeds and beautifies steep slopes and problem areas where nothing else will grow. Deer and other mammals feed on its lush green foliage. Use 20 to 25 pounds of seed per acre Price List |
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Birdsfoot Trefoil |
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Crownvetch |
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You may have tried Crownvetch, now try the hardiest vetch ground cover. Discovered in the mountains of Montana where it produces a crop in only as little as 30 days of frost free weather. Lutana is a contraction of the Latin words Luten (yellow) and Montana (mountains) yellow mountains. It produces an amazingly beautiful, low growing, solid cover of lacy, rich green fern-like foliage. It has beautiful yellow to white flowers, borne on 4 to 8 inch stalks. Its mature leathery dark brown seed pods make attractive decorations and retain its seed throughout the winter for wildlife food. Far superior to crownvetch for controlling erosion, choking out persistent weeds and covering infertile disturbed, critical or problem areas. Exceptionally beautiful for parks, steep cuts, dams, dikes. spillways, highway roadsides, driveways, around ponds or in your backyard. Plant 10-12 pounds per acre |
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Cicer Milkvetch |
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A long-lived perennial legume. Forms a dense growth 2 to 3 feet high. Excellent for erosion control. Has rose colored flowers with 1/8 inch diameter seeds. Good for Doves, Quail, Pheasant, Turkey. Plant 25 to 40 pounds per acre. |
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Lathco Flat Pea |
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Excellent for erosion control, wildlife food and cover. Grows about 3 feet tall. Produces pea shaped seeds 1/8 inch in diameter. Develops a low green growth in the Fall of the year that Deer and Turkey will scratch up. Has beautiful rosy-pink flowers. Also good for honey production. Plant 25 to 35 pounds per acre. |
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Sainfoin |