Tomatoes grow better if you do the same thing.
Plant them deep.....


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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