This area is in north western NSW and as you can see from the photos below, it's pretty flat. The area is known for growing cotton. A lot of trees have been removed in the past so a lot of stations have started planting thousands. In this week we planted 22,000 but the work continued for months. These photos aren't particularly picturesque like the rest of the site but they tell a story.
Distributing the plants ahead of the planters. |
Make the hole - fertilize it - plant it - stamp it - stake it - box it. It was a bit repetative. The longest row was 6 km long. |
Lunch, there's not a lot out here, so there's no more scenic place to stop and eat. |
Not a whole lot of water out here either, so it had to be trucked to the site. |
Watering, this was the only head start in life these tiny plants got, one dose of water. I have no photo yet, but the report is that these tiny seedlings were over six feet tall a year later.
