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THUNDER BAY -- Maggie Landry is in the process of converting the lawn on her property into naturalized areas that provide habitat for native pollinators.
Although Landry still grows a few vegetables for herself, her focus is now on gardening for wildlife. “I feel that I can garden for enjoyment rather than for just producing vegetables,” she says. Keystone species such as milkweed, willow, oak, serviceberry, mountain ash, and staghorn sumac are important elements in her garden. She also has liatris, prairie dock, bergamot, allium, coneflower, lobelia, vervain, aster and other plants.
To suppress weeds around trees, she puts down straw. “I hate wood chips - plants aren’t meant to grow in wood,” she explains. Oftentimes, horsetail, a perennial weed, starts growing where wood chips are laid down, because the soil become poor underneath the wood chips.
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