Lloyd Charles wrote: Gooday Gil > Yes I was referring to hand planted tube stock which I > assumed was what Liz's friend lost. You are surely on the right track with > direct seeding which is after all how nature did it in the first place > (still does) - trouble is for many years in NSW at least the forestry > department ( / Ag / lands now) was the major supplier of tube stock trees - > and generated a lot of money from it - they still run at least three major > nurseries supplying trees to farmers and landcare - along with that they are > the major source of wisdom and advice - there has been almost ZERO effective > work done by these official people in the area of direct seeding - some > farmers are figuring it out themselves - but no thanks to the people that > ought to be the most help! > Cheers > Lloyd Charles > > > >
Yes that was the case here. We found we gould grow better tube stock than the Government, by including local inoculates in the soil mix. But then over more than twenty years we have much improved the directing system, to where we think we are ahead of anyone else we can find. Gil
