http://www.budafoods.com.au/blog Growing journal Sun, 03 May 2009 07:22:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a quick progress update on our chestnut trees about 9 months after we planted them. Five trees are dead but the other seven are going great. From what we have seen we believe that we have killed the five dead trees by burning them with too much fertilizer. Out of the ... http://www.budafoods.com.au/blog/progress/2009/04/26/chestnut-trees-growing-progress-2/ I went to check for progress on our chestnut trees about 1 ½ weeks after we planted them. All trees have started to bud and some trees have already opened their firt leaves. See the pictures below for details: [gallery] http://www.budafoods.com.au/blog/progress/2008/09/10/chestnut-trees-growing-progress-1/ 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 ... http://www.budafoods.com.au/blog/activities/2008/08/31/installation-of-watering-tree-guards/ 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 ... http://www.budafoods.com.au/blog/activities/2008/08/24/planting-of-the-first-lot-of-chestnut-trees/ 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. [gallery] http://www.budafoods.com.au/blog/organic-inputs/2008/08/24/organic-inputs-24-august-2008/