On Friday we went to Moturoa (Rabbit Island) to do some re-vegetation planting. Two people from the council met us there, they are responsible for overseeing a huge planting project on Rabbit Island.
The island is used for pine forestry, these pine trees were previously planted right up to the water's edge. Now we are realising that this is not a good practice so a 30 metre buffer of native bush is being put in place. This project is part of the One Billion Trees Programme. More information about this government programme can be found here- www.teururakau.govt.nz/funding-and-programmes/forestry/one-billion-trees-programme/
We used cardboard guards produced locally.
Planting a manuka tree, it was very sandy which made it easy to dig!
It was a lovely day out in the sun. We planted totara, manuka and ngaio. There were 6 of us planting and we managed to plant 184 trees in about 3 hours, an average of about 10 trees each per hour.
I was originally quite skeptical about planting in such rough rocky and sandy soils I would have thought the plants would be at least somewhat nutrient deprived but hey the proof is in the pudding that our plants are still surviving out there! :)
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