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title: "Photo of the Week: Maintain Vegetation"
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# [Photo of the Week: Maintain Vegetation](https://www.purepower.com/blog/photo-of-the-week-mainatain-vegetation)

 Written by [Rick Ivins](https://www.purepower.com/blog/author/rick-ivins) | Sep 9, 2013 6:34:36 PM

Two things went wrong here. First, the vegetation was not maintained, allowing it to grow tall enough to shade the modules and cover the modules in lots of pollen. The second mistake is improper seeding. If the site has proper low-growing ground cover, the weeds would not grow tall like this!

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