Locally March could be known as ‘The Month of Tall Grass’. This is the month that the winter’s rain brings the season’s growth of grasses to fruition. The stalks are now some six and seven feet tall…. loaded with small seeds soon to ripen… then I’ll mow them down letting the stalks serve as mulch, covering and protecting the soil, eventually to rot into the topsoil. I like to wait until the grass seeds are fully matured before I mow them down… I want a good crop of grasses to grow next year naturally. This gives me good protection for the soil… increasing its tilth year by year naturally without any outside amendments.
Here’s a photo of the grasses right now.
