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Quick, Inexpensive Broadcast Seeding

Planting stock must be of high quality with a particularly vigorous root system for adequate survival rates in North Dakota. Seedlings, even though root pruned, have proven inadequate. Since transplanting must be resorted to, seedbed densities of about 50 per square foot for pines and 90 per square foot for spruces have given the best results. Lower densities create a weed problem, and the resulting seedlings are difficult to transplant. Since broadcast seedbeds had in the past been considerably superior to drilled seedbeds at the North Dakota Forest Service Nursery at Towner, an inexpensive, quick method of putting in broadcast beds had to be devised. This spring a system was tried with very good results.


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Author(s): John M. Mohlberg

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Volume 23, Number 4 (1972)

Volume: 23

Number: 4