Green ash (Fraxinur pennrylvanica) and white pine (Pinus strobus) trees were planted on three minesoil types (graded topsoil, graded and ripped topsoil and levelled gay cast overburden) with various mixtures of masses and legumes seeded either before tree planting or at time of bee planting. Trees received weed control for either 0, 1 or 2 years. Some trees were also planted on unseeded subplots. Survival,-vigor and annual height giowth of trees were measured as well as biomass and ground cover of herbaceous species. After two growing seasons with above average precipitation, green ash had excellent survival at 98% but white pine averaged 36% survival overall and only 6% on cast overburden. However, cast overburden was a suitable soil for green ash, and biomass of seeded gasses and legumes was equal to that found on topsoiled plots in the second growing season. Treatments such as weed control, ripping compacted topsoil and delay of seeding until tree planting normally result in increased tree seedling survival (as was the case in an earlier study established during a drought year) but these treatments provided little benefit to trees in this experiment probably because soil moisture was abundant during both growing seasons.