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 we saw a marked improvement of the young trees a few weeks after we installed the WaterTubes.
Following are some pictures of the WaterTubes and the installation process.
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- Instructions on a WaterTube
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- Three wooden stakes are placed around the tree first
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- A WaterTube placed around a chestnut tree and filled with water
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- Drippler installed on the inside, at the bottom of the WaterTube