From Maryland through the Carolinas to Georgia, our family was here yesterday, we are here today, and we will be here tomorrow. Fifteen years ago, we started growing container seedlings. That first year we started small and grew 100,000 longleaf seedlings. We started small to learn how to grow top quality seedlings and we have certainly learned a lot since that first crop. Since that spring in 199
6, our production has risen to near 13 million seedlings this year. We attribute our success to producing top quality seedlings and selling them at fair prices and always putting the customers' needs first. We will be happy to provide a list of customers and references at your request. Go ahead and check us out. Take the guess work out of buying container seedlings. Ask for Deep Plugs from Meeks' Farms. Don't accept substitutes or excuses. Go ahead and buy the six inch Deep Plug. You'll be glad you did. At Meeks' Farms & Nursery, we're always looking for ways to improve our customers' sucess in restoring longleaf pine. Introducing for 2010 the first of our Super Deep Plug Pine Seedlings. Our Super Deep Plugs contain 15% more root volume than our regular DeeP Plug Seedlings. In 2008 we started looking for new containers that would allow us to grow a high quality seedling with a little bit more volume than was commerically available. To make a long story short, there were no growing containers available to meet our needs, so we developed our own container growing system. We call it the Super Deep Plug. Meeks' Farms & Nursery is now pleased to offer turn key reforestation services including:
Subsoiling
Scalping
Site Prep Spraying
Herbaceous W**d Spaying
Tree Planting
Site Prep for Native Grasses
Native Grass Sowing
Native Grass Seed
Native Grass Spraying
We want to offer our customers the same quality services for reforestation that we have offered in the seedling business for the past 15 years. Call for current prices and schedule a no cost no obligation visit to see how we can help you achieve your longleaf restoration goals. At Meeks' Farms & Nursery, we are only sucessful if your new reforestation project is sucessful. Following are some guidelines for buying container seedlings:
Seedling Quality
Seedling quality is perhaps the most important factor in buying any trees species. In container seedlings, a good tight root plug with white root tips present should be the first criteria examined. Plugs should remain intact during handling with little if any soil becoming dislodged during shipping and handling. A healthy green top with needles 8-12 inches in length for longleaf and 8-12 inch stem for loblolly and slash. Seedlings should exhibit a healthy green color with no signs of disease. Plug Length
What length plug should I buy is a common question. At Meeks' Farms, we are firm believers in the 6 Inch Deep Plug Seedlings. Often nurseries will try to sell you what they have in stock. We have been in the seedling business for 15 years and from experience, the deeper the plug, the harder the seedling is too grow in the nursery. It is easier in the nursery to grow a 4"or 5"plug than a 6" plug. The 6" plug requires more stress in the nursery to completely capture the entire plug with roots. In the past 15 years we have sold over 100 million 6" Deep Plug Seedlings. We have 1 customer out of thousands that requests a shorter plug and we specifically grow that contract at a substantial discount to meet this customer's request. You will always have folks saying that plug length is not important. Our response is, "Why doesn't everyone grow 6" seedlings if there is no advantage to the short plugs and how much cheaper are the shorter plugs? " We have recently invested a great deal of money into a new tray mold to grow our new "Super Deep Plug Seedlings" that are 6" deep and have 115 ml of volume, which is a 15% greater root volume than our standard Deep Plugs. There are limited quantities of these seedlings available for sale at the present time. Deep Plug Container Seedlings & New Super Deep Plug Container Seedlings:
Longleaf
Improved Longleaf
Advanced Generation Loblolly
Advanced Generation Slash
Pales Weevil Treatments (call for quote)
Hardwoods
Seedlings Grown On Contract
Wiregrass
Longleaf Seed
Wiregrass Seed
Native Warm Season Grass Mixtures
Seedlings Shipped October Thru March
