If you've got a meadow established or you're looking to get one established, and let's

say you know seeds have started to germinate, you've actually done the bed prep, and things

are at least off to a good start, what do you need to do to keep that going throughout

not only the season that you're in now, but perhaps season after season.

So Michael's out in the show, author of mini meadows, you know, Mike, even before like basic

maintenance through the season, I'm curious after you've planned prepped and maybe seeded

the bed, what are some things you need to maintain in that germ phase or right post germ?

Sure. So most of the time, Kev, I'm actually just preaching patience, but a couple of things

you can look for. So assuming you've planted your mini meadow and you follow the instructions

and you've sewn and things have begun germinating, you've got little seedlings, what you're

normally going to notice is you're going to see similar seedlings and similar germination,

or at least you should throughout the entire area, which means hey, you broadcasted it nice

and evenly and things have begun to germinate and the seedlings look similar throughout.

Now if you're seeing a random tassel here or there or random seedling here or there,

sometimes that could potentially mean that it could be an unwanted weed or grass that's popped up.

But in most cases, Kevin, I'm going to tell people just to be patient and continue to let the

meadow evolve because a lot of times what will happen is we'll get impatient and let's say it's

been four or five weeks after we've sewn our seed and the seedlings are up three or four inches

and we haven't seen any flowers yet and we want to get out there and we want to start pulling

because we're not sure if it's a weed or a flower, etc. and we end up pulling most of the flowers

and that's not a good thing. I can't tell you, I've had some people email me images of these big

piles of weeds that they've pulled, which are actually their wild flowers. So a lot of times,

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