Establishing Native Warm Season Grasses (full course)

How to properly establishing native grass forages, produced by the Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture.

[@jimhuskins8506]

I am keenly interested in establishing native grasses on our small homestead in Western North Carolina. I lost all interest in your video, however, when it became obvious that you are convinced of the necessity of herbicides. If I cannot get natives to grow without poisoning my land, I will plant timothy, bluegrass, and clover.

[@edwardgrobe2848]

Thats why i planted Bermuda in my pastures, because its hard to control. It is a heavy traffic fast recovery grass that puts a lot of weight on my cattle, sheep and goats. If properly using pasture rotation, i only need enough hay to get me through two to three months of winter.

[@SaintFlibble]

Great and detailed content. Was this property in Tennessee? There is a lot that is applicable to native grass restoration in the more arid parts of the country, even if not used for grazing.

[@djspock5150]

This was very helpful thanks for sharing. We planted early May of 2022 about 2.5 acres on our property, I mowed a lot last year and we had about 15" of rain in May. Then from June to now May of 2023 we have had so little rain in Kansas its been a terrible drought, so i am not sure how its doing or not. On another 2.5 acres i have buffalo grass planted as well but having a hard time establishing it too, mainly from lack of rain sigh

[@chucktaylor4958]

Excellent presentation.

[@GarrettXHolder]

I really hate that the proposed solution for Bermuda is just a shit ton of roundup.

[@chucktaylor4958]

Bermuda is a tough customer. For small plots it can be dug rhizomes and all, filtered by one’s fingers, which gets old fast. Pastures? Bring out the big guns.

[@GarrettXHolder]

@@chucktaylor4958 it may be the only way on large scale. It is just unfortunate how much Bermuda has invaded the US southeast

[@chucktaylor4958]

@@GarrettXHolder it is.

[@b_uppy]

This is stupidity on the part of presenters. Weeds come in for a reason. They are pioneers that reclaim degraded soil. The enemy is monocropping, even if they are native grasses.
Soil health is the best deterence against weeds, as poor condition soil is also where disease, pests, etc reside. Soil health comes with polycropping. Managing with livestock is better. If the one of the toxic plants are present, as some types of pigweed are, there are soil scientists like Elaine Ingham that can assist with correcting soil to deter the offenders.
Livestock do better on diverse fields, needing less intervention. Additionally the soil uses less water when there is more soil diversity, rather than m9nocropped grass or crops.

[@gcranch9913]

So how do you make it rain ?

[@jeffprice8739]

I like worms