On 9/19/2011 4:05 PM, willshak wrote:
Herb Eneva wrote the following:
I need help about what to do on my steep bank.
It is 50 ft long, 25 ft high and about a 22 degree slope.. Right now it
is covered with weeds and grass and is a real pain to mow. I
was thinking of laying down landscape cloth and covering that with
rip-rap (big rocks) Any and all advice appreciated
Herb



I just let mine go commando. If it's green it stays.
I gave up mowing and planting ground covers on it a few years ago.
It grows to about 3 feet tall and some of it provides some colorful
flowers. You can buy some annual wildflower seed and throw that on the
hill for a surprise next spring. I think I would like to have the colors
rather than the hill looking like the side of a levee.
Since I started to let it go naturally, my neighbor across the street
started to do the same.


Done the same with one of mine. Difficult to establish even ivy, which
some claim is invasive, but not when there are deer around. Fortunately
it is in the back of the house where no one can see and in my
neighborhood, which is very hilly, lot of folks let the whole back yard
grow wild.

I have one bank taken over nicely with a mixture of vinca minor and day
lillies. Deer don't eat the periwinkle and can't keep up with the day
lillies.