Summary of the 2024 planting season at Manawa Karioi 🍃
11 September 2024
Thank you for your continued support! We started the planting season in June by planting along Moemoea, It's become an increasingly popular track. It gets very dry in the summertime. For this reason, most of what we plant is lower-growing species that can tolerate the dry conditions and lower soil fertility like mingimingi.
Where there are folds in the hillside with small gullies we can put in things like totara, rewarewa and titoki in the open spots, and under established trees we added nikau, poporokaiwhiri, rata and kohekohe.
Our planting is focusing a lot more on expanding biodiversity, with forest giants such as kahikatea, totara, matai and miro featuring more. We put in close to 30 of these podocarps (ancient conifer trees) this year.
While much of the current forest canopy at MK is currently ngaio, mahoe matipo and pittosporums, these will eventually become sub-canopy as the tawa, kohekohe and titoki that we have been planting in increasing numbers take over.
