03 February 2008 - 13:07, Tinman said
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With the well-documented problems of trampling and digging and their impact on our new plantings, we tried a new technique: temporarily protecting these areas with short fences. This has been a remarkable success, as it turns out.

Here we’re putting up such a fence in the South Bowl region just below the summit:

And here we’re planting the area:

Over half of this area, we’re trying an application of mulch to help keep down weeds. The other half is the control. As it turned out, the mulch really didn’t seem to provide much benefit.

However, the fencing has proved to be hugely successful. In contrast to prior years’ failures, we have had great results in this area. Here is the final result:

And here is Lena showing us how all this is done:

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