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Container Seedling Planting With Manual Microsite Preparation for Species Restoration

Difficulties in achieving good soil-root contact when planting container seedlings in undisturbed forest soils containing living roots resulted in the adaption of a manual microsite preparation technique using heavy tree-planting spades. Microsites that were an admixture of mineral and organic soils, were produced on bootscreefed spots by repeated vertical insertion of the spade at various angles. Shortrooted container seedlings planted in these microsites on hardwood strip cuts resulted in good survival and growth. Tree Planters' Notes 47(2):58-61; 1996.


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Author(s): P. Salonius, K. Beaton, B. Roze

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Volume 47, Number 2 (1996)

Volume: 47

Number: 2