We are in the process of setting up our little farm to produce organic fruit, chestnuts and vegetables.
31
Aug
Today we installed a product called WaterTube around each of the chestnut trees we planted a week ago. WaterTubes are manufactured out of recycled plastic, hold about 20 litres of water that is slowly released over the period of a week or two, and are bio-degradable.
We have used WaterTubes around some other fruit trees where [...]
24
Aug
We have planted our first 12 chestnut trees today.
The following pictures show the preparations we made before planting the trees.
The next picture shows the bare rooted trees as partially unwrapped. Believe it or not that is actually 13 1 year old chestnut trees.
And here is one of the trees planted and watered. As you can [...]
24
Aug
Below you can find pictures of all products we have used in the planting of our first batch of chestnut trees. All inputs are organic as we are in the process of getting ourselves certified as organic growers.