Annual grasses, or shelter plants, are vital additions to any seed mixture. Their role is twofold: they quickly protect the soil from erosion and ensure the safety of other plants by emerging quickly. Their uniform presence is a good sign that seeding has been carried out correctly, while their absence can indicate areas where seeding has failed or been disturbed, facilitating rapid intervention to rectify the situation.
Example of a varied, multi-strate species selection according to the particularities of the terrain:
Oats, Echinochloa pied-de-coq, Elyme du Canada, Ivraie multiflore
*A form is provided following the checkout to customize your Seedbox, so you can adapt your project to your preferences in terms of number of species, desired appeal, your terrain and your tastes.
Find out more about Seedboxes: What is a Seedpod?
You're also making a much greater contribution to the collective effort!
Each purchase allows us to plant 5 new trees as part of a collective project.
Booster Shelter plants annual grasses
- Minimum hardiness zone: 4a
- Soil types: Well drained, Moist, Dry or cool, All types
- Site types: Roadside, Fields and glades, Coulee, Ditches, Flatbeds, Replat and downslope, Disturbed site, Mixed undergrowth, Bog
- Exposure types: Sun, Semi-shade
- Number of layers: 1
- Composition of layers: 2 Shrub layer
- Species types: 3 Herbaceous grass (<1m)
- When to sow: Spring, Autumn
- Mini 6m² or 65ft²
- Medium 30m² or 323ft²
- Large 120m² or 1,292ft²
- XLarge 1,000m² or 10,764ft² or 0.1 hectare
- Mega 5,000m² or 53,820ft² or 0.5 hectare
- Customized*
- *You can customize your Seedbox for your project according to your preferences in number of species or desired appeal, to suit your land and your tastes.
