Collecting seeds of the Pannonian sand grasslands continued in 2017
In 2017 within the Hungarian Little Plain Life+ project area, the collecting of seeds of the following grassland species was carried out manually and was prepared for sowing:
Species affected by manual seed collection |
Amount collected |
Stipa pennata |
2 kg |
Dactylis glomerata |
200 kg |
Phleum phleoides |
110 kg |
Festuca rupicola |
155 kg |
The expert staff of Budapest Forestry Stock Co. carried out the mowing of the 16 hectare grass colony and the baling of the mowed plant material as well as the transporting and deposition into the winter storage site. Threshing of the seeds was done manually from the machine collected plant material and then by a total of 660 kg of seeds were put into the bags.
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