University of Virginia Library

Maintenance:

You will be asked for recommendations for the maintenance of
road slopes. Please remember that slopes steeper than 2:1 are
hazardous to equipment operators, and that wet ditches cause tractor
wheels to sink. Designate areas to be mowed to grass heights of
four inches to reduce browning-off during the summer droughts and
set aside areas as seedbeds for wildflowers...these to be mowed
after the seeds drop in late summer.