Cjb56houtx, what was the water/molasses ratio you used? I bought a couple dozen bluebonnet seedlings this Spring and they have bloomed and set seed now. Most are about to drop the seeds and I would love to have them just come up from seed next year. None of these seeds will be scarified, of course, but if there's anything I can do to enhance the environment they fall into maybe it would help them along. I have also been trying to restore a wildflower meadow on our back acre. It got mowed before it went to seed about 8 years ago and it is finally starting to come back now. We have Indian blankets, milkweed, Indian paintbrush, coreopsis, larkspur and a couple of very lowgrowing wildflowers I don't know the name of, one of which is a beautiful cornflower blue. What is a legume innoculant and what does it do for the wildflowers? Is it possible to eliminate chiggers in the wildflower meadow without killing the flowers? I have been using sulphur to kill them, but I'm not sure how it affects the soil where I put it down. Cheryl

Hi This is maxi,"ThereÂs over 200 species of forbs (a type of wild flowering plant) and grasses in this pasture," he said, wading through grasses, mints and clovers on his Navarro County ranch. "ItÂs like going to a cafeteria. A cow can pick out what it wants. This is Indian grass here. For a cow, itÂs like steak." Price and his wife, Sue, have devoted the last three decades of their lives to growing better grass, the way nature intended it. That means restoring native grass species to the parts of their 2,160-acre ranch that have been abused by cotton farming and overgrazing. It also means managing a rare scrap of Blackland Prairie that has never been plowed. ========================================================= maxi Delaware Drug Treatment

Thanks, Janet! I thought I had read (somewhere???) that the Bluebonnet can also be sowed in perhaps August to get the first bloom pre-frost. Otherwise, the suggestion is to plant before the last frost in the spring and maximize the germination cycle. About the most I've personally grown is an African Violet and even Charles Manson couldn't kill one of those puppies! I saw a USA kit that was a bunch of lupines with instructions to plant them in the form of the letters USA. I also saw a yellow ribbon that was a seasonal bulb, but I don't know which ones.

They start blooming usually around spring break, which started last week. We drove home last Saturday, and they were just starting to bloom. I bet this weeks drive will be beautiful. I did notice something strange. In some areas the fields had bluebonnets growing low, then tall white flowers also covered the fields. It looked like fields of white from a distance. Barbra