Grass and Forb Mixtures
for Low Maintenance Settings

* Contact:
       * Leslie Weston
       * Department of
         Horticulture

Acknowledgements

           We would like to acknowledge the hard work and expertise of Hyun Joo Noh, a student in the Computer Science major at Cornell University. She worked on design, information collection and implementation of this site. Drs. Leslie A. Weston and Andrew F. Senesac, Cornell University and LIHREC (Long Island Horticulture Research and Extension Center), were responsible for experimentation and data collection for sites in Ithaca and Riverhead, NY. We also appreciate the assistance of technicians Roselee Harmon and Irene Tsontakis Bradley in seed purchase, preparation and data collection. Finally, John A. Condzella assisted in plot preparation, seeding and data collection and analysis.

           We also acknowledge the NY State Department of Transportation for their continued financial support related to this project. After continued field experimentation, we plan to evaluate our best performing mixtures in roadside settings across NY State in 2007.

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