A commercial
herbicide successfully killed off the turf grass. According to Arnie
Linder, accepting the concept was a little more difficult. During the upland planting process, erosion control
fabric was used to protect against soil erosion. Plywood wavebreaks
protected vegetation from wave action.
Straight wave breaks
served as a buffer to shield wet meadow shoreline plantings from
wave action.
"V"-shaped wave breaks protected
emergent vegetation in the water. Between the wave breaks, erosion
control fabric and wood stakes stabilized clumps of bulrush. Cattail
mats were tied to the front of the straight wave breaks and held
in place by 5-foot wood stakes.
Plants of the same species were grouped together
with a spacing of eighteen inches between plants.
