For those of you who don't know, when I left New Zealand last March, I'd just set up a greenhouse full of 264 soil-stuffed pieces of piping.
The effort represented several weeks of dragging J and K out into the field, breaking our hands hammering the white PVC segments into the ground, and breaking our backs hauling the intact soil cores back to the lab. (In actual fact? We had a ton of fun!)
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| The end result: Neatly nested little soil cores, waiting to be planted up with Douglas-fir seedlings before I left last March. |
The kind scientists back at Landcare planted Douglas-fir seedlings in each of these pots, so that we could see which fungi would associate with the trees in soils from all across the South Island of New Zealand.
And now, it's time to open up those tubes and take a look! I'm so excited to see what those baby Doug-fir have grown up to become, and to check out who's hanging out on their roots. And, with any luck, I'll even have time to update you all back home!
See you on the flip side (of the world),
Holly
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