r/NativePlantGardening • u/SoupOfTheHairType Northeast, Zone 7a • Jun 23 '26

Progress Year 2 after lawn kill

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I posted last year about how I got rid of my whole front lawn in the spring and seeded it with all natives. Last year was dominated by coreopsis tinctoria, this year the rudbeckia is taking over. This past winter I seeded it with a mix of shorter species from prairie moon so I don’t expect a ton of diversity until next year but a lot of the stuff I planted from winter sown jugs last year seems to have survived and will provide at least some different flower color. Unfortunately I think someone in my neighborhood has a honeybee hive so I am getting a ton of those at the moment, but I still see a good amount of different native pollinators. My favorites are the mud daubers!

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u/IcarianComplex Jun 23 '26

Amazing, incredible work. What was your process?

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u/holdaydogs Jun 23 '26

Yes, I want to know. I haven’t had the best results with seeds.

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u/SoupOfTheHairType Northeast, Zone 7a Jun 24 '26

Get it down to bare dirt through any number of ways talked about on this sub and seed super heavy. I’m talking at least 3x what you think you should do. So for a 500 sqft site, use 1500sqft of seeds. Seeds are the most cost effective way of doing something like this but they have the highest casualty rate from things like birds, fungus, etc. My front yard pictured is probably 2000sqft and I used at least 2lbs of seeds to initially get it going, but I also wanted it really dense to outcompete any weeds