QT; I cost me $.35 for conifers and $1.00 a tree for hardwoods plus $.25 a tree to plant and $.10 a tree for Simazine. At 600 trees to the acre you're looking at $420 for conifers and about $900 for hardwoods. With the hardwoods you'll have to keep up the herbicide or mulch the trees. You can keep the costs lower if you grow the trees yourself, plant them and spray for weeds with a hand sprayer. You can grow poplars from cuttings dipped in rooting hormone. Just grow them in water bottles with the ends cut off and transplant in the fall or stick the cuttings directly into the soil when it's moist.


Dan O.