Grass mixtures for afforested opencast spoils in South Wales

✍ Scribed by A. J. Moffat; C. J. Roberts

• Book ID: 102927308
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 504 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1085-3278
• DOI: 10.1002/ldr.3400020207

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

An experiment that investigated the establishment of seven grass and legume seed mixes on opencast coal mining spoil in South Wales is described. After three years, mixtures containing Poa pratensis and Festuca rubra var. rubra were the most successful in covering the spoil; the ‘Johnson JR33’ seed mix proved the best of those commercially available that was tested. Tree growth was not detrimentally affected by the establishment of a grass ground cover. Erosion was not an important process at the experimental site, though slumping occurred locally from plough ridge to plough furrow.