Rainwater line irrigation for young trees improving survival rates

When we started to plant trees, we did it random. So we randomly in the landscape planted trees. And then in the next years, to give them a chance to come through the first hot summers, we had to give them water by buckets. And this was practically impossible to keep doing, let's say, with the two of us. And with some little help, but it was technically, physically impossible. So we stopped with that way, because also the succession was, maybe five or maximum 10 out of 100 was possible to get through. So we stopped with this way of working. So since the last three years, we only plant on a waterline. So what we do is, we first roll out a tube, where we can connect it to a pump or to a natural height level water tank, which is higher up in the field. So here you see the water tube. So we first roll out the tube. And when we have the tube in the line, we just start planting all kind of species to keep them mixed. It is not as nice, because it's not this random planting. But we see this as the only way. So we make lines, we plant on the lines, and we give them about three years water. And this succession rate is at least 80 to 90 percent. You still lose them to animals, to wasps. All kind of things will still destroy a couple of trees. But we have a very, very high succession rate, when you give them about three years on the water. It's just a dripping system, very simple. It's a very simple dripping system. You have a tube. You take a small tube. You put a drip on it. You can even clean it. And it gets its water. And that's the way how we plant them at this moment.