31

Aug

Installation of watering tree guards.

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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 [...]

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24

Aug

Planting of the first lot of chestnut trees

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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 [...]

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