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Pretty Darn Quick (PDQ)© Seed Mix by Prairie Moon® Nursery 10.63 lbs per acre | 168 Seeds per sq/ft |
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WILDFLOWERS |
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Botanical Name (Common Name) |
% by wt. |
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Agastache foeniculum (Anise Hyssop) |
0.59 |
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Allium stellatum (Prairie Onion) |
1.18 |
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Asclepias incarnata (Rose Milkweed) |
1.18 |
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Astragalus canadensis (Canada Milk Vetch) |
0.29 |
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Bidens polylepis (Bearded Beggarticks) |
0.59 |
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Chamaecrista fasciculata (Partridge Pea) |
18.81 |
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Coreopsis lanceolata (Lance-leaf Coreopsis) |
2.94 |
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Dalea candida (White Prairie Clover) |
1.76 |
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Dalea purpurea (Purple Prairie Clover) |
2.35 |
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Drymocallis arguta (Prairie Cinquefoil) |
0.59 |
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Echinacea pallida (Pale Purple Coneflower) |
2.35 |
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Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower) |
1.65 |
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Eryngium yuccifolium (Rattlesnake Master) |
1.18 |
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Helenium autumnale (Sneezeweed) |
0.59 |
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Heliopsis helianthoides (Early Sunflower) |
1.41 |
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Liatris aspera (Button Blazing Star) |
1.18 |
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Liatris ligulistylis (Meadow Blazing Star) |
1.65 |
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Lobelia siphilitica (Great Blue Lobelia) |
1.18 |
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Monarda fistulosa (Wild Bergamot) |
0.59 |
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Oligoneuron rigidum (Stiff Goldenrod) |
0.59 |
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Penstemon digitalis (Foxglove Beardtongue) |
1.18 |
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Pycnanthemum virginianum (Mountain Mint) |
0.59 |
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Ratibida pinnata (Yellow Coneflower) |
0.71 |
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Rudbeckia hirta (Black-eyed Susan) |
7.05 |
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Rudbeckia triloba (Brown-eyed Susan) |
0.47 |
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Symphyotrichum laeve (Smooth Blue Aster) |
1.18 |
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Verbena hastata (Blue Vervain) |
1.18 |
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Verbena stricta (Hoary Vervain) |
0.94 |
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Zizia aurea (Golden Alexanders) |
2.35 |
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Total of WILDFLOWERS: |
58.26 % |
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GRASSES, SEDGES & RUSHES |
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Botanical Name (Common Name) |
% by wt. |
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Bouteloua curtipendula (Side-oats Grama) |
14.11 |
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Carex brevior (Plains Oval Sedge) |
2.35 |
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Carex vulpinoidea (Brown Fox Sedge) |
1.18 |
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Elymus canadensis (Canada Wild Rye) |
9.41 |
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Juncus dudleyi (Dudley's Rush) |
0.59 |
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Schizachyrium scoparium (Little Bluestem) |
14.11 |
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Totals of GRASSES, SEDGES & RUSHES: |
41.74 % |
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Last updated 10/24/24 |
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14 Questions asked on Pretty Darn Quick (PDQ) Seed Mix
Most importantly is site prep! Right now you should be working on removing the existing weeds and weed seed bank. Plant after a frost - would that be Nov-Dec for you? Mow all of next year to suppress weeds and encourage root development of the new natives.
First year, the prairie sleeps. The second year, the prairie creeps. And the third year, the prairie leaps!
Perennial plants take time to germinate. Things won’t start to pop until your soil temperatures are consistently in the 60s for a few weeks, and then you’ll see staggered germination throughout the summer. And, when they do emerge, they will be slow-growing. Keep in mind these are wild plants – they will not behave like turf lawn, annual vegetable seeds or non-native horticultural plants like tulips and daffodils that you may see popping up right away in the early spring landscape. You can expect it to take a few months before things fill in to the bare soil.
The first year is often a hard year because you’ve spent so much time already on site prep, sowing the seed, and then it really doesn’t look like much that first growing season! We totally understand, butbencourage you to have patience! It’s all a very normal part of the process of establishing a perennial, native prairie planting like this.
It will take 3+ years for your site to look like the photos online, and the first year it’ll just look like weedy, patchy lawn because you should be mowing it consistently the first year. The second year you’ll see a few wildflowers bloom, and then the third year it’ll really take off.
As mentioned above, it’s really important to keep up on your first year maintenance mowing. You’ll need to keep things short so sunlight can keep hitting the soil surface and feeding those slow-growing, little seedlings. It will also help prevent any fast-growing weeds still on site from stealing all the sunlight, flowering, and setting more weed seed. Mow the site to 4-5 inches whenever the vegetation reaches 6-8 inches tall.
Your seed mix should have included a fast-growing cover crop if your mix was 1/8th acre or less. I would NOT recommend seeding fast or aggressive grasses or clovers; those will compete with your native seedlings too much.
Good luck and keep in touch!
*PLEASE NOTE: we are a mail order nursery and have no retail facilities, but you may pick up your order if prior arrangements are made. Pick up orders are subject to **MN Sales Tax.
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SEED $100.00 and under: $5.00
Retail SEED orders over $100.00 ship free!
Custom seed mixes or discounted seed sales over $100, add 5% of the total seed cost
(for orders over $1,000 a package signature may be required)
BARE ROOT and POTTED PLANTS $50.00 and under: $9.00
over $50.00: 18% of the total plant cost. (For orders over $1,000 a package signature may be required.)
TOOLS and BOOKS have the shipping fee included in the cost of the product (within the contiguous US).
**We are required to collect state sales tax in certain states. Your state's eligibility and % will be calculated at checkout. MN State Sales Tax of 7.375% is applied for orders picked up at our MN location. Shipping & handling charges are also subject to the sales tax.
Shipping Season
SEED, TOOLS and BOOKS are sent year-round. Most orders ship within 1-3 business days.
BARE ROOT PLANTS are shipped during optimal transplanting time: Spring (April-May) and Fall (Oct). Some ephemeral species are also available for summer shipping. Since our plants are field-grown, Nature sets the schedule each year as to when our season will begin and end. We fill all orders, on a first-come, first-serve basis, to the best of our ability depending on weather conditions beyond our control.
POTTED PLANTS (Trays of 32/38/50 plugs and 3-packs) typically begin shipping early May and go into June; shipping time is heavily dependent on all the species in your order being well-rooted. If winter-spring greenhouse growing conditions are favorable and all species are well-rooted at once, then we ship by order date (first come, first serve). We are a Midwest greenhouse, and due to the challenges of getting all the species in the Mix & Match and Pre-Designed Garden Kits transit-ready at the same time, we typically can't ship before early May. Earlier shipment requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
*We are unable to ship PLANTS (bare root or potted) outside the contiguous US or to CALIFORNIA due to regulations.
Delivery
We ship using USPS, UPS and Spee Dee. UPS and Spee Dee are often used for expediting plant orders; they will not deliver to Post Office Box numbers, so please also include your street address if ordering plants. We send tracking numbers to your email address so please include it when you order.
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