A day with John Hunter

Our aim is to get the northern most sites sown earliest in the season .
This often depends on how prepared the landholders are. Site preparation is important.
In cropping areas at least one application of herbicide before seeding is vital .
12/7/2010

• Peter Ryan's site along a drainage line at Canniambo was well prepared ( flooding in September may have washed the seed away)
• Hamish Carrmichael at St James had sprayed his 2 sites just before we arrived , we followed faint wheel tracks . These were reseeded after failure in the dry season of 2006. A few hop bushes and mallee wattles had made it . Murray Pine sand dune and previously cropped roadside reserve.
• Ruth Horton at Cosgrove - rehabilitated quarry site with some tree regeneration , no herbiciding , rocky, we added understorey only .