Scrub Growers

Ever wondered what 50,000 baby Mahoe looked like? Well here the are...
Needless to say potting season is off to a good start. 👍

Next up in our 21st before and after series - the evolution of the potting shed.
Our first few years were spent potting up under a basic roof structure in the back yard. Potting mix was stored in a nearby pile and shovelled onto the table. From there we hand filled and pricked out seedlings into PB3/4 bags.
In 2008/9 we upgraded to a potting shed (under construction in the background of the first image) with a basic potting machine and trayfiller.
Then in 2020 we moved into our new plant production facility and introduced our fully automated transplant line.
In the meantime the original site of the potting shed has been planted up with natives grown from seed in the nursery (classic before and after photo).

Then and now part two - propagation facilities.
The original prop house was an ingenious design, with roll up covers allowing it to double as a shade house, or a hardening off area for seedlings. Rodney constructed this in the back yard, and we produced thousands of seedlings in this basic structure.
Today's prop house and shade house serve the same purpose, they're just a bit bigger.