Cedar will grow in a swamp. It' ll also do well in anything but droughty soil. Spruce like wet conditions but not true swamp, except Black Spruce, which grows in swamps. White Spruce will do very well on the lower part of a slope. Pines will do the best in good farm soil but handle sand if they have to. Poor sandy farm soil is usually stabilized with pine plantings.

Last weekend I planted White Spruce at the slope bottom about 50' from the water line. Next was White Pine up the slope followed by rows of Red Pine. Lastly; White Oaks went in at the upper third of the hill.


Dan O.