"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
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"0tterbot" wrote in message

having said all that, i read recently (and i can't remember where!) that
longstem planting is surprisingly effective for more trees than you would
think,

It was certainly featured on one of the Gardening Australia programs.
amazing really as it goes against the grain after all those years of being
told to plant at the level the plant was in the pot.

yes, that's it. it was in a copy of g.a. magazine (which i don't buy, but my
mum sends me her used ones). i found it right after i posted (isn't that
always the way).

for the information of anyone else, someone called bill hicks was
experimenting with longstem planting of aust. natives, to repair & prevent
erosion (i.e. if the trees are deep, and making adventitious roots from the
buried part, they tend to grow well without any extra water or care, and
much less likely to be washed away by flooding, etc).

he found not all species will live like this, but many of them do. and also,
those which thrive on teh technique get really big, really fast, which is
what you want to repair erosion.
kylie