17/8/2009 & 28/8/2009
Deb & Julians property at Earlstone . Large Trust for Nature Covenant job .
Jim Begley DPI Grant
Total size 35ha. (80kms of direct seeding at 5 kms per hour )
Site well prepared -sprayed twice . Rows close together .
Soil damp, sticky and greasy .
Mud plugging the pipe and thick dead onion grass wrapping around the press wheel were a time consuming problem in the previously uncropped section . Much smoother in the old cropped paddock .
No stock have been on the property for several years.
Previously successful direct seeded vegetation in patches across the site.
Hand planting of taller trees.
Wider range of species than usual sown.
Germination reported by October .
Property SOLD in 2010
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