This time last year our dam was finished. We wanted to plant native warm season grasses and wildflowers which are impossible to get to germinate this time of year. So I fertilized and planted winter wheat and strawed the heck out of it. It came up and before the spring rains came I put annual ryegrass and straw down in places where it washed a little. In May we lightly harrowed, seeded the NWSG and flowers, then rolled, and strawed it again. After they came up I fertilized it and set up a sprinkling system using a sump pump in a bucket with 1.5" hose to a 1.5" PVC fork 3way and Y's to run 6 hoses that 2-3 of these cheap little sprinklers with spikes that you stick in the ground on each hose. It all work great and the dam looks nice with flowers I don't have to CUT and it will only get better. I'm having my pond enlarged right now and will be doing the same thing except I�m using KY 31 instead of NWSG with the 100lb of wheat on this side of the bank and hillside that goes 150' all the way to my house, but because of the distance and slope I�ve got silt fences and straw rolls I�m also going to us with straw. This work starts tomorrow!