Ever since I blew an emitter off the end of a line and came home to a flooded garden, I use a 30 psi regulator. I can't use the drip tape in my primary set up, but I've thought about trying it out in one of my herb gardens. Seeing your garlic makes me miss my old garlic garden.
Just saw your drip tape video (better late than never, I guess). Very informative, and good tips. I think though, that the psi loss is approximately .44 psi per foot of elevation. Keep the videos coming!
I ordered my drip tape. Thank you for all your knowledge. My garden is doing so much better since I subscribed. Not a coincidence, especially my peppers I hacked about three weeks ago. 😄😎🤙🏾
I am bran new to gardening, last year was my first. I did the drip watering because I am so forgettable. That lead me into catching the rain water off my pole barn and that led to more and more storage. I can not hold 1700 gallons of water. Its all ran off my solar power stuff. I am making my garden larger this year and now will be running water over 125 feet and up 14 feet (to get over the path my grand daughter uses to drive the Gator and her go cart. I trenched last year but then learned I had to way to drain them so now all the supply lines will be over head and I will put in connectors to drain them (I am in Michigan so negative 20 below for a month is about the norm in winter. I just found your channel, I know this video is a year old but I sure hope you are still doing them. As a beginner I am learning so much from you, how you explain it I can understand. THANK YOU!
This will be me next year. Currently my first year gardening (taking over the reins from daddio), and all of my plants seem to be doing very well, but on watering days I'm spending an hour (or so) watering everything. Thanks for this and the tips on pepper pruning!
I've seen drip tape used under black plastic to keep heat and moisture, at the end of the summer i pulled it up and was amazed by all the snakes, frogs and spiders. You've got me anxious for summer Happy Gardening
😁 I was a roofer in my past. When there's an interior leak; just use a thumb tack with a braided string! Trickle's down the string; the water trickle's down like an hour glass. So I'm thinking maybe you can make a video with a hanging watering system for a specific plant with the same concept? Perhaps even a reservoir with a pin hole through the epicentre of the containers base and with a string attached... Then shine a black light on it to show the water magically trickling down the string...🤔 Just a thought. Ty for the time you've shared with others; I've learned so much from your videos already & hope to keep learning. Another idea! Worm farm & lady bugs.
Thanks for telling me about drip tape! I was gonna do all the kit nonsense! I'll still do the kit for my hanging baskets, But I'll use the tape for my cucumbers!
Good call! These are currently exposed bc I wanted to make sure I didn't have any leaks, but I think that's the way I'm going to go about it once everything looks good. (Though I'm less worried about the sun breaking it down and more worried about gophers chewing through it... ughhh.)
Very cool videos Veronica. I garden with my mom, she has bought irrigation equipment, this winter i will plot the implementation of such said equipment. I will also start pruning the peppers thanks to you! Awesome job with the videos!
Ben using drip tape for 10+years. Really recommend it. I use it in perennial beds. For the orchard and grapes, I use individual emitters. Seems more efficient. I also filter all my water. Minimizes clogging. For the ends, they make a flat sleeve that does what you solutions does, but I really like your solution. Thanks.
If it hasn’t already been mentioned, for future reference the 8 mil tube / tape is actually 0.008” of wall thickness, not 8mm. Mils and Millimeters are different units. BTW, I love your videos! You strike me as one of the most authentic people I’ve seen. Thanks for sharing your experience and know-how.
You done good, Veronica. I picked your video from among dozens of others because it seemed basic and simple, down to earth, etc. Now I am going to order some drip tape for my garden but I don't know which brand do buy. It would be helpful if you included the links in your video :-)
Nice! I'm putting an irrigation system in my 20+ raised beds this year, kind of winging it.Never done one.I keep having to order more parts so I'm like halfway through and it's working good so far.I have my garden all dug up with pipes running to 4 zones on a remote control timer and waiting to burry until I know there are no leaks. Kind of wish I got the drip tape but I just ended up getting black 1/2 poly pipe and emitters I can put where I want. and have the 1/8 inch stuff too I don't plan on using a whole lot of. I think the 1/2 inch is good because it doesn't take just one little spec of dirt to clog the whole pipe. I have my water coming in from a 3/4 garden hose to an external garden bib at the front side of the garden, then a two way splitter each with a 3-foot hose(just for some wiggle room) and a chlorine/sediment filter, one goes to a 50 foot hose for hand watering, and the other to my timer that has the 4 zones.I have a 25 psi regulator on each output, and the coupler that connects to the 1/2 mainline has an extra screen in it which is nice. I just tried to split my garden up equally into 4 parts and dug shallow trenches going under and through to the inside of my raised beds then up to the surface basically trying to make it blend in and keep the outside of the vertical pipes on the beds from being vulnerable on the outside of the bed.There are a lot of elbows and hose clamps involved which is not the best thing as there are more chances for leaks. i had problems with extra claps i had sitting around i used and were too big and did hold snugly on the barbed connectors on them and i have to redo those connections. Hope it works when it's done! lololol in my down time waiting for parts, I got my greenhouse recovered today, so stoked about that. got a few hundred seedlings i would like to get into cups in the next week or so out in the greenhouse, and start more plants, possibly to sell. also, have 500 strawberry plants in cups in my kitchen I'm waiting to plant and then steel the cups for the new seedlings. my compost needs to sit for a few weeks that I need to plant the strawberries..the struggle..=]
LOL you sound like me now!!! You're super busy in the garden!!! Fingers crossed for your irrigation system- the buried lines isn't something I'm brave enough to attempt yet. (Plus those freaking gophers chew through everything.)
i am kind of a risky gardener lol, but there will be great rewards. I at least don't think I have any goofers so thats good wish I couldst have a pet lynx guard my garden
I'm thinking the specification you have on the hose is "mil", which is one thousandth of an inch. That is a common specification for thickness of elastomers, like gloves, rolls, or in this case the wall thickness on the tube. Good explanation on the setup!
Great video, I would suggest a 3/4 inch disk filter because you don't have to clean it out as often as you would that little screen. And always use a pressure regulator, they will blow out if the pressure gets to high (I believe no more than 12 PSI).
Maybe someday- my focus is currently on soil, though I am thinking about going to visit a local shrimp farm and seeing if I can't incorporate some into my riperian plans for the pond.
@@VeronicaFlores looking forward to that. by way i learned a lot about gardening specially in growing tomato, keep it up God blessed you and your family always.
Thank you so much,You are so sweet and a great teacher...Can you do a video on gathering Escarole seed?I watched your lettuce seed harvest but cant get my Escarole to seed out.TY73s
I can't anytime soon, as I'm not growing it here right now. How long have you been growing it? I feel like maybe it's similar to chard, in that it takes longer to go to seed than other "greens".
Thank you Veronica,It's more like Chicory ,It grows in about 60 days, Do you have email? I got the seed from Johnny's seed supply in Maine.When I sent them the picture that fall,They where all blown away and never seen Escarole that big,I asked them to help me collect seed to no avail.Really good in Chicken soup or fried with garlic.I can email you a picture? Well Thank you again Veronica,You are sweet and I will be watching for more of your videos.
Got the pic! Solid FYI: most lettuce like greens need heat (or other stressors) to bolt/go to seed, so if you haven't had any temps above 75-80F+ that have held for a few days to a week, that's more than likely why you haven't gotten any seeds yet.
Thank you,Hope you try growing them some day.I am in Maine,and temps do go high but maybe not long enough....Cook up them Pine Nuts!.Thank you So much Veronica.Check out my channel,You are a chosen channel..TY88s
Great video, thanks! I've a suggestion to ending your line. Why not fold the end over a couple of times ad then use an office/desk binder clip? They're pretty strong and easy to handle.
You will love drip irrigation. I’ve used it for years. Saves water and prevents diseases from water on foliage. I use a very simple product called a leaky hose. It is 5/8” diameter and water oozes from it over its entire length. It is hooked up to a garden hose and you can connect 50’ lengths easily because they have standard male/female hose connectors. My garden is 50’ by 80’ and has 14 beds. I have 100 feet looped thru each bed and there is no pressure drop off. These hoses which are easily found in garden centers are virtually indestructible. I’ve had some last decades until they get brittle. You might want to investigate this product. Great to place them under mulch.
Thanks! I think I'm familiar with what you're talking about? We used soaker hoses a lot growing up. I've been using (and repairing) other drip systems for nearly a decade now, but had never actually set one up myself until this week!!! I agree though- so much less disease than you'd otherwise get with top watering.
You might want to check out a product called a weep hose available at Amazon. A bit better than a traditional soaker hose. I’ve found tha drip irrigation works amazingly well on tomatoes. Even watering prevents blossom end rot and leaf blights. Keep up the great work with the videos. I’m sure you are recruiting a new generation of gardeners
Works great for cucumbers and squash too! So much less powdery mildew than sprayers or overhead watering. Less splash = better all around in the garden.
Thanks! Seems obvious but I never thought of drip tape. Will probably set that up this year (already sourced it out locally and it's cheap!). Honestly, most times after a long day at work the last thing I want to do is walk around the property watering everything with a hose. This is definitely a time saver! Thanks again and looking forward to more.
I prefer the tape as well. Better and cheaper than emitter line or individual emitters. They do make closures (about 10 cents each) for the tape although I appreciate your little trick to closing the line without the extra cost! On a garden of your scale, I don’t know if it makes sense but we use a filter in addition to the mesh screen. Gets rid of water scale and other impurities. Good luck!
even if you did want to strip all calcium out of the water with say a r.o. filter(which I wouldn't recommend with well water because its already clean good water free of chloramines and second you would need to re-supplement calcium) a water softener will save on the life of the r.o membranes or any filters saving money in the long run I would recommend just a standard sediment / charcoal filter system connected after a water softener
Do you find you have the proper gallons per minute with your well? I have a well to and my flow rate will not support enough drip tape for my garden according to the math in the drip tape directions. I'd REALLY like to be able to use this for my sweet corn.
It did where I was at, but we also had 10k gallons worth of holding tanks at the top of a hill. Do you get *any* hose pressure? If you have holding a holding tank and are not pumping direct to outlet or something crazy like that, a pressure regulator for the connector end of your drip (along with a backflow) may be your best friend. If the issue is too much tape for the circuit to properly pressurize, you may want to consider multiple tape runs on a multi-outlet timer and/or hose splitter. The garden that I did this video in had three separate runs hooked up to a main panel, because trying to do it all on one circuit = no pressure.
@@VeronicaFlores My problem is I was thinking of doing it all one one circuit.....never thought of splitters and timers...brilliant! I'm very envious of your holding tanks, I'm fabricating a 1000 gallon holding tank as we speak, filling the tank from a creek and using elevation for pressure. Hopefully this should give me enough water for the garden without putting a strain on the well. 10,000 gallons is massive. Awesome. I'd like to see that set up in a future video maybe? Thank you for the solution. Drip tape is defiantly in my near future!
I have 7 raised beds in the shape of an E they are attached by long screws So what I was thinking was to drill a hole through the wood of the beds ends and run the drip lines through them then add elbows at each turn. My concern is will the presser be the same at the end of the drip line as it is in the beginning.
This will work- I would just map out the length of the beds, but it's fairly easy to fully pressurize any run under ~500ft, provided that you're not working with a major slope and a ton of emitters.
I haven't checked theirs out yet! I really had issues with the Rainbird all in one setups, mostly because their measurements for connectors and tubing weren't standardized, so you couldn't get generic off the shelf pieces and expect them to fit. Idk if they're still like that, but it was annoying the last time I messed with that stuff.
Perfect timing on this video . I need to replace my soaker hose this year and was looking for another option. Do you know how they will hold up in the winter ? I am in upstate New York and afraid they will freeze and crack in the winter. Thanks for another great video.
They could definitely freeze, but it's easy enough to lift and roll up at the end of the season if that's your biggest concern. I'd just take the tapes off the main line and box it all rolled until spring.
ok everything looks like its coming together very nicely two green thumbs up again Veronica my one question is you had mentioned that you are using well water that also supplies your house, Here in Ohio Mid August when its most important for water our wells can dry up here when we put extra stress on them. What is your estimated gpm gallon per month consumption that you plan on taking from your well and what can your well produce its worth question i just don't want to see you run into issues when you need your system to work the most for you ;)
Good points, and valid concerns. Our well is pretty deep, and we've never had it go dry even during the last round of droughts (knock on wood), but we are dealing with a lot of vineyards going in around us so we're crossing our fingers that they won't suck the tables dry this summer. No idea what the GPM is for the entire place combined (gardens + stock tanks + orchard + small lawn to keep the dust down), but it would be worth figuring out!
I'm trying to find the type of drip tape you showed in your video but so far I have been unable to find anything like it. I was wondering if you have the brand name or can tell me where I would be able to purchase it online? We are new gardeners and my wife and I enjoy your videos and find them very helpful!
Idk what the brand name is- if you search "drip tape" on amazon, you should get a ton of results for all different spacings. You're mainly looking for something that's 5/8" in diameter (standard so the fittings from the hardware supply will work) and has a flow rate around .5gph (most you'll encounter are .46 I think.)
So you store the drip line and reuse it every year ? then layout your garden with the exact same layout each season? I'm trying to understand if people reuse the material or start over every year.
Hey Veronica, is drip tape best for rows or can it curve around landscapes as well. Im using 1/2 and 1/4" tubing and can move it easily in circles or curves, but the tape seems easier for sure.
Curvature is limited with tape, but you can get some curves, provided that you're not looking to create anything with a very tight radius. I have mine pinned on curves in a few spots across the hugel mounds- the curve is maybe 60-70 degrees at the tightest part, and happens over a distance of 8-10 feet or so. Anything much tighter and the flexible tubing might be a better call. (I actually use a mix of both.)
I'm a old farmer, and learned something about drip tape, folded ends. Thanks. Water filter, and or settling tank, I use a chlorine filter get on eBay. City Folks. Smiles.
Not to a Drip Tape) I want to write one to beautiful Veronica)) pepers brought me 2 your channel and now I can't wait to see next vid with you)))) have a nice day Ps there is so many things you can poke a hole with and wiggle it on there))))) loool I am sorry I think itis spring ) I would marry you and help with anything on the farm ... love your smile and how you laugh
You gain pressure running downhill. The lower parts have more gph (gallons per hour) than the top. I had to make rows run at an angle across because it sloped 2 ways. Otherwise, you need pressure compensating emitters. Just be aware that more water pressure and water as it slopes and less at the top.
Every 2.33 feet in height of a column of water is 1 pound psi. So a column of water 2.33 feet high would generate 1 psi on a pressure gauge coming off the columns bottom. Every additional 2.33 feet in height of water in that column of water would add an additional 1 psi in pressure on the columns bottom. If you are feeding your lines from the lower elevation point and the water is thus flowing upwards 4 feet in elevation, quick math in my head says you will lose approximately 1.4 psi at the 4 foot higher end compared to the bottom end pressure. Again, feeding upwards from the bottom. You will always have more pressure at the lower elevation end. Visualizea 4 foot column of water sitting in a pvc pipe. The further you go down in that water, the greater the pressure. The same effect when you swim downwards in a pool. The pressure on your ears increases with depth. I hope this helps.
So if I'm feeding the water downhill from an uphill connection, and the slope is maybe 20-25ft decline (at least) from spigot to 5/8" main line, am I increasing pressure to the point that it stresses my system, or is it negligible because of friction from distance traveled?
Veronica Flores I understood it to be @ a 4 foot elevation change going downhill. It is "elevation" in feet from the bottom lowest point of the drip tubes to the highest. Not length, if I understood your question correctly. Friction loss from flow affecting volume of water is virtually non-existent as your flow velocity and volume is so low. I have never installed nor handled drip irrigation. Just observed it on TV, UA-cam etc. The manufacturer of your tubing must explain pressure bursting limits for your tubing. I seriously doubt that would happen in your case. The more drip holes you have dripping, you would need more pressure, which you would, or should, control with a pressure regulator and a pressure gauge on the output side of the regulator. I am thinking 30 to 50 bucks for both. Maybe less. Or, you can simply throttle your water supply valve to what you think is the appropriate opening and leave it there. That saves $$. I am thinking you only would need maybe 10 to 15 psi discharge water pressure into your system. You would start adjusting your pressure till you thought all of your drips were dripping as you see fit. I would say don't worry about pressure differences from elevation, etc. Hook your drips up, throttle your water supply till all seems right and call it a day. Afterthought.......a regulator will adjust it's opening if the SUPPLY pressure varies and will pretty much maintain the desired output psi/flow with varying supply pressures. A throttled supply valve will not. With a throttled valve a6n increase in supply pressure will cause an increased output to the point individual drips drip faster or even pee . A drop in supply pressure will slow the drips drop to next drop time. I hope all this helps. Like I say, I have never used drip irrigation, but I do know flow, regulators etc from my work. Think Spring.
Great info- so that sounds pretty negligible, all things considered, but I will look into getting a regulator, as I feel like maybe that's what's blowing out the main connectors at the spigot ends and causing leaks there.
You can! And I did for a long time in this space until we installed a controller. Get a pressure regulator though, and backflow valve between the hose and your faucet.
A 3 foot drop seems fairly steep, and I'd worry that the ends of the lines of drip tape might not have as much pressure as at the manifold heads. Have you considered making a manifold at both ends of the drip tape - that is, instead of making an open ended "comb" shape with really long "teeth", closing the ends of the "teeth" with another length of the 5/8" poly? Doing that keeps everything at the same pressure. You might connect them in batches of 2 or 3 to make them easier to move, and still keep them all at the same pressure. If it is a _static_ layout, year after year, connecting the ends might ensure that each section has the same pressure throughout, regardless of the slope. However, if you change the configuration of your beds or rows often, you would _not_ want to connect the ends. Does that make sense? If not, I can explain it a bit more. BTW - I just now found your channel. I love this video, and projects like this, so I subbed.
Yes that totally makes sense! I think I left enough length on both ends of the drip tape too to try this out as well. Now to see if I have enough 5/8" lying around or if I need to get more.
So years ago we tried using soaker hose in one of larger beds. We quickly found that it caused our shallow well pump to short cycle. I assume we'd have the same issue w/ drip tape?
I'm honestly not sure. We run our pump overnight to refill the tanks at the top of the hill (10k gallons total when full), and water from that the rest of the day without issue most of the time, except in the hottest parts of the summer when irrigation is run a little longer, but even then we just lose pressure. Is your pump on a timer, or does it go on automatically when it hits a certain level? No idea what the GPH is on soaker hose, or how it compares.
Yeah, your setup is commercial, vs. residential, so really can't compare them. I installed a dedicated line just to run the watering system on the north side of our property, and it was on a timer, but since we hit the short cycling issue, we abandoned the idea. All beds (except the one we need covered the most - the vegetable garden), are now on an irrigation system. I'm going to run another dedicated line for the veggy garden and try something different. Will need to do some more research and put something in place before it starts getting too hot. Plus, manual watering is inefficient and problematic when we travel. Thanks for keeping up w/ your content, great stuff!
userbosco I’m assuming you have a pressure tank? How many gallons is your pressure tank? Short cycling can be caused by not having a large enough tank.
I am interested in knowing what you hook all your main lines too. Is there a huge manifold of some kind that they all go to that is then hooked into the source?
i came to that conclusion today yes. every time i think i got it all i discover something starting to hang in a corner. But im also a newbie in that area so i cant help you there. Only i was thinking you put your the plants that need water the most at the lowest level were your water runs to. Also maybe you can build Terrases.....(hope that translate to english) like they do in the Mountains of indonesia - Thailand
Yeah this garden is semi-terraced, and I run all my irrigation across the slope (with it) rather than down it wherever possible, and plant accordingly. I think the shorter runs should help with evening out pressure though.
It really is! I used to spend 2-3 hours at my old place watering every day by hand, and it drove my friends nuts bc I could never go out until it was done. Drip is such a time saver.
Where are you located? We get 8-10" of rain a year here in the high desert, usually between December through Feb, so we do a lot of mulching and drip irrigation to supplement during actual growing season.
Really? I live in Baltimore county it gets quite dry here don't you think, in the summer especially after working 10 hour days in July it gets over 100 degrees here my plants don't like it when I'm not home to make sure they are watered and is why I'm going to great lengths to put irrigation in this year.but other than that a lot of plants will do well here with minimal water in spring and fall as we get substantial rain
Jonathan Kosyjana you live in Maryland that's something I use rain barrel systems in some of my videos you might see it. I once had a hook up to a battery to a Shurflo pump and I had it also solar powered it's fun is gardening and you can eat really high-quality food. My whole focus is on growing quality food not how fast but quality
The only 2 things I can suggest is, #1 always use a backflow preventer, you're probably already using one but basically it's just to keep the water in your line from coming back into the house and contaminating the rest of your water. And #2 if the well water becomes a problem beyond treating the actual well water in the well with solution to break up the sediment you can also set up a RO system at the beginning of where your water comes out of, my recommendation is a cheap system that usually costs under $100 but also lets calcium and magnesium through, just so that at least those 2 nutrients will still be in the water, and it'll clean out everything else.
I've been looking at filters but can't seem to decide which one- do you see that it's extra helpful? I'm not too worried about sediment clogging the driplines before the gophers chew through them.
I use www.theperfectwater.com/ filters, their pretty good so far. Plus there's an added benefit of them letting you order the filter that specific to your filtration needs for your home. They are still on the pricey side, but honestly filters in general seem to be rather pricey these days.
Once again great ideas... genius kink idea! Totally doing this for my garden this summer. If you get a chance, check out my garden, just uploaded it tonight.
Add this filter to your water source. It will solve most of your clogging issues www.ewingirrigation.com/products/filtration-450/screen-455/3-4-l-s-prod-y-fltr-mpt-155msh
There are a few retailers online that will give you the best bang for your buck. If you're really in a bind, you can also look at getting fda grade soaker hoses from a garden supply online (just Google it)
her vids just keep getting better n better 😘
Drip tape is the best invention of this century! I love it !
Ever since I blew an emitter off the end of a line and came home to a flooded garden, I use a 30 psi regulator. I can't use the drip tape in my primary set up, but I've thought about trying it out in one of my herb gardens.
Seeing your garlic makes me miss my old garlic garden.
Just saw your drip tape video (better late than never, I guess). Very informative, and good tips. I think though, that the psi loss is approximately .44 psi per foot of elevation. Keep the videos coming!
I love how she laughs for no apparent reason. It's cute.
I'm easily amused. 🤷🏻♀️
Agreed. It's very charming
Hip Hip Hooray another video from you today. I reeeeeeally like watching your videos, they are very personal and in depth.
I've never heard of using drip tape. I'm glad you made a video on it.
I ordered my drip tape. Thank you for all your knowledge. My garden is doing so much better since I subscribed. Not a coincidence, especially my peppers I hacked about three weeks ago. 😄😎🤙🏾
I am bran new to gardening, last year was my first. I did the drip watering because I am so forgettable. That lead me into catching the rain water off my pole barn and that led to more and more storage. I can not hold 1700 gallons of water. Its all ran off my solar power stuff. I am making my garden larger this year and now will be running water over 125 feet and up 14 feet (to get over the path my grand daughter uses to drive the Gator and her go cart. I trenched last year but then learned I had to way to drain them so now all the supply lines will be over head and I will put in connectors to drain them (I am in Michigan so negative 20 below for a month is about the norm in winter.
I just found your channel, I know this video is a year old but I sure hope you are still doing them. As a beginner I am learning so much from you, how you explain it I can understand. THANK YOU!
That's amazing!!! I need to get something like that setup here soon in Texas... we get too much rain not to!
This will be me next year. Currently my first year gardening (taking over the reins from daddio), and all of my plants seem to be doing very well, but on watering days I'm spending an hour (or so) watering everything. Thanks for this and the tips on pepper pruning!
It's a great feeling to go on vacation, knowing your plants will be watered. I use a battery powered timer.
VF, you are delightful!
It really is! Thanks
I've seen drip tape used under black plastic to keep heat and moisture, at the end of the summer i pulled it up and was amazed by all the snakes, frogs and spiders. You've got me anxious for summer Happy Gardening
Yep! Mine is under mulch as well- I use spent straw from the sheep paddock.
😁 I was a roofer in my past. When there's an interior leak; just use a thumb tack with a braided string! Trickle's down the string; the water trickle's down like an hour glass. So I'm thinking maybe you can make a video with a hanging watering system for a specific plant with the same concept?
Perhaps even a reservoir with a pin hole through the epicentre of the containers base and with a string attached...
Then shine a black light on it to show the water magically trickling down the string...🤔 Just a thought.
Ty for the time you've shared with others; I've learned so much from your videos already & hope to keep learning.
Another idea!
Worm farm & lady bugs.
Great work, you should do a tour of your growing spaces. Everything looks beautiful from what you show in your videos and Instagram feed.
Thank you! I have an early spring tour from when I got back from NYC- you can find it here: ua-cam.com/video/m24yuqNG1H0/v-deo.html
Thanks for pointing it out, I am starting to get onto the 2018 gardening swing. Great tour, I look forward to more!
Thanks for telling me about drip tape! I was gonna do all the kit nonsense! I'll still do the kit for my hanging baskets, But I'll use the tape for my cucumbers!
If you put straw over the drip line and tubing it will keep the sun from degrading the plastic and it will last way longer. 😁😁😁
Good call! These are currently exposed bc I wanted to make sure I didn't have any leaks, but I think that's the way I'm going to go about it once everything looks good. (Though I'm less worried about the sun breaking it down and more worried about gophers chewing through it... ughhh.)
Thank you
Very cool videos Veronica. I garden with my mom, she has bought irrigation equipment, this winter i will plot the implementation of such said equipment. I will also start pruning the peppers thanks to you! Awesome job with the videos!
I though I was the only one who draws out there garden plans lol glade I am not alone hope your 2019 garden goes very well
Lol yeah- I've found it helps me to make just a few less mistakes. :P
@@VeronicaFlores most deff what part of the country you from I am in west Nebraska
Currently in CA but heading to TX shortly!
@@VeronicaFlores well for hat part if Texas you going to and are you going to keep gardening and stuff
@@geringgardener9760 DFW area
I loved your video. Great information. You are so pretty!
It is great that you are learning at the same time this is the beauty of gardening thanks for sharing and ATB,, Coaster.
Ben using drip tape for 10+years. Really recommend it. I use it in perennial beds. For the orchard and grapes, I use individual emitters. Seems more efficient. I also filter all my water. Minimizes clogging.
For the ends, they make a flat sleeve that does what you solutions does, but I really like your solution. Thanks.
If it hasn’t already been mentioned, for future reference the 8 mil tube / tape is actually 0.008” of wall thickness, not 8mm. Mils and Millimeters are different units. BTW, I love your videos! You strike me as one of the most authentic people I’ve seen. Thanks for sharing your experience and know-how.
That's good info to know! Now if only I can manage to commit that many decimal points to memory. 😂
I love her response.
Thanks for the tip on how to terminate the end of the drip tape you just saved me 60 bucks!
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Awesome details.
Thank you. I've been using tape for two years now and I learnt a couple new things.
Very nicely done sister! I don't know what I would do anymore without drip tape!
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Although I'm living in the Netherlands (rain is the number 1 we complain about) this is still fun to watch.
Thank you!
You done good, Veronica. I picked your video from among dozens of others because it seemed basic and simple, down to earth, etc. Now I am going to order some drip tape for my garden but I don't know which brand do buy. It would be helpful if you included the links in your video :-)
I really like Drip Works (www.dripworks.com/) - they have great customer service and are super helpful with any questions you might have!
Nice! I'm putting an irrigation system in my 20+ raised beds this year, kind of winging it.Never done one.I keep having to order more parts so I'm like halfway through and it's working good so far.I have my garden all dug up with pipes running to 4 zones on a remote control timer and waiting to burry until I know there are no leaks. Kind of wish I got the drip tape but I just ended up getting black 1/2 poly pipe and emitters I can put where I want. and have the 1/8 inch stuff too I don't plan on using a whole lot of. I think the 1/2 inch is good because it doesn't take just one little spec of dirt to clog the whole pipe. I have my water coming in from a 3/4 garden hose to an external garden bib at the front side of the garden, then a two way splitter each with a 3-foot hose(just for some wiggle room) and a chlorine/sediment filter, one goes to a 50 foot hose for hand watering, and the other to my timer that has the 4 zones.I have a 25 psi regulator on each output, and the coupler that connects to the 1/2 mainline has an extra screen in it which is nice. I just tried to split my garden up equally into 4 parts and dug shallow trenches going under and through to the inside of my raised beds then up to the surface basically trying to make it blend in and keep the outside of the vertical pipes on the beds from being vulnerable on the outside of the bed.There are a lot of elbows and hose clamps involved which is not the best thing as there are more chances for leaks. i had problems with extra claps i had sitting around i used and were too big and did hold snugly on the barbed connectors on them and i have to redo those connections. Hope it works when it's done! lololol in my down time waiting for parts, I got my greenhouse recovered today, so stoked about that. got a few hundred seedlings i would like to get into cups in the next week or so out in the greenhouse, and start more plants, possibly to sell. also, have 500 strawberry plants in cups in my kitchen I'm waiting to plant and then steel the cups for the new seedlings. my compost needs to sit for a few weeks that I need to plant the strawberries..the struggle..=]
LOL you sound like me now!!! You're super busy in the garden!!! Fingers crossed for your irrigation system- the buried lines isn't something I'm brave enough to attempt yet. (Plus those freaking gophers chew through everything.)
i am kind of a risky gardener lol, but there will be great rewards. I at least don't think I have any goofers so thats good wish I couldst have a pet lynx guard my garden
Love your videos Stay Green and grow on, and you're garlic looks amazing
Oh my gosh I’m so excited I found ur channel!!! Very stoked to watch all the viddies 🌿🖤🙌🏼🌱
great video
am glad I found your channel! very informative and you are so cool!
Thanks for joining! :)
love your vids. Alot of good info here. Nice voice too
Nice video seen your videos last week like the contents like your channel
Thank you!
Thanks veronica..i liked your style
I really enjoy your videos!:)
there are ones that use no salt to soften as well but a very great point
I'm thinking the specification you have on the hose is "mil", which is one thousandth of an inch. That is a common specification for thickness of elastomers, like gloves, rolls, or in this case the wall thickness on the tube. Good explanation on the setup!
Thanks for clarifying this! Always wondered what "mil" referred to in the non-metric world.
Great video, I would suggest a 3/4 inch disk filter because you don't have to clean it out as often as you would that little screen. And always use a pressure regulator, they will blow out if the pressure gets to high (I believe no more than 12 PSI).
Do you know what will happen if I don't use a pressure regulator?
love to see your set up about aquaonics thanks in advance
Maybe someday- my focus is currently on soil, though I am thinking about going to visit a local shrimp farm and seeing if I can't incorporate some into my riperian plans for the pond.
@@VeronicaFlores looking forward to that. by way i learned a lot about gardening specially in growing tomato, keep it up God blessed you and your family always.
Thank you so much,You are so sweet and a great teacher...Can you do a video on gathering Escarole seed?I watched your lettuce seed harvest but cant get my Escarole to seed out.TY73s
I can't anytime soon, as I'm not growing it here right now. How long have you been growing it? I feel like maybe it's similar to chard, in that it takes longer to go to seed than other "greens".
Thank you Veronica,It's more like Chicory ,It grows in about 60 days, Do you have email? I got the seed from Johnny's seed supply in Maine.When I sent them the picture that fall,They where all blown away and never seen Escarole that big,I asked them to help me collect seed to no avail.Really good in Chicken soup or fried with garlic.I can email you a picture?
Well Thank you again Veronica,You are sweet and I will be watching for more of your videos.
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Got the pic! Solid FYI: most lettuce like greens need heat (or other stressors) to bolt/go to seed, so if you haven't had any temps above 75-80F+ that have held for a few days to a week, that's more than likely why you haven't gotten any seeds yet.
Thank you,Hope you try growing them some day.I am in Maine,and temps do go high but maybe not long enough....Cook up them Pine Nuts!.Thank you So much Veronica.Check out my channel,You are a chosen channel..TY88s
Looks amazing!
Great video, thanks! I've a suggestion to ending your line. Why not fold the end over a couple of times ad then use an office/desk binder clip? They're pretty strong and easy to handle.
Not a bad idea - just didn't have any around!
You will love drip irrigation. I’ve used it for years. Saves water and prevents diseases from water on foliage. I use a very simple product called a leaky hose. It is 5/8” diameter and water oozes from it over its entire length. It is hooked up to a garden hose and you can connect 50’ lengths easily because they have standard male/female hose connectors. My garden is 50’ by 80’ and has 14 beds. I have 100 feet looped thru each bed and there is no pressure drop off. These hoses which are easily found in garden centers are virtually indestructible. I’ve had some last decades until they get brittle. You might want to investigate this product. Great to place them under mulch.
Thanks! I think I'm familiar with what you're talking about? We used soaker hoses a lot growing up. I've been using (and repairing) other drip systems for nearly a decade now, but had never actually set one up myself until this week!!! I agree though- so much less disease than you'd otherwise get with top watering.
You might want to check out a product called a weep hose available at Amazon. A bit better than a traditional soaker hose. I’ve found tha drip irrigation works amazingly well on tomatoes. Even watering prevents blossom end rot and leaf blights. Keep up the great work with the videos. I’m sure you are recruiting a new generation of gardeners
Works great for cucumbers and squash too! So much less powdery mildew than sprayers or overhead watering. Less splash = better all around in the garden.
Wish I was as good as you I have some chilli plants that a fruiting well after I watched your pruning video
We're all learning together!
HI VERONICA IT IS VERY NICE YOUR VIDEO I WANT LEARNING MOST I AM FROM AFRICA EAST THANK YOU
Great info.
Thanks
Thanks! Seems obvious but I never thought of drip tape. Will probably set that up this year (already sourced it out locally and it's cheap!). Honestly, most times after a long day at work the last thing I want to do is walk around the property watering everything with a hose. This is definitely a time saver! Thanks again and looking forward to more.
I prefer the tape as well. Better and cheaper than emitter line or individual emitters.
They do make closures (about 10 cents each) for the tape although I appreciate your little trick to closing the line without the extra cost!
On a garden of your scale, I don’t know if it makes sense but we use a filter in addition to the mesh screen. Gets rid of water scale and other impurities. Good luck!
Yeah I'm definitely looking into a filter this season- see if it won't take care of my calcium buildup, at least a little.
in addition look into water softeners for calcium buildup
even if you did want to strip all calcium out of the water with say a r.o. filter(which I wouldn't recommend with well water because its already clean good water free of chloramines and second you would need to re-supplement calcium) a water softener will save on the life of the r.o membranes or any filters saving money in the long run I would recommend just a standard sediment / charcoal filter system connected after a water softener
Don't the softeners effect the soil microbes though? I worry about excess salts in the soil more than the calcium and magnesium in my water.
Do you find you have the proper gallons per minute with your well? I have a well to and my flow rate will not support enough drip tape for my garden according to the math in the drip tape directions. I'd REALLY like to be able to use this for my sweet corn.
It did where I was at, but we also had 10k gallons worth of holding tanks at the top of a hill. Do you get *any* hose pressure? If you have holding a holding tank and are not pumping direct to outlet or something crazy like that, a pressure regulator for the connector end of your drip (along with a backflow) may be your best friend. If the issue is too much tape for the circuit to properly pressurize, you may want to consider multiple tape runs on a multi-outlet timer and/or hose splitter. The garden that I did this video in had three separate runs hooked up to a main panel, because trying to do it all on one circuit = no pressure.
@@VeronicaFlores My problem is I was thinking of doing it all one one circuit.....never thought of splitters and timers...brilliant! I'm very envious of your holding tanks, I'm fabricating a 1000 gallon holding tank as we speak, filling the tank from a creek and using elevation for pressure. Hopefully this should give me enough water for the garden without putting a strain on the well. 10,000 gallons is massive. Awesome. I'd like to see that set up in a future video maybe? Thank you for the solution. Drip tape is defiantly in my near future!
I have 7 raised beds in the shape of an E they are attached by long screws So what I was thinking was to drill a hole through the wood of the beds ends and run the drip lines through them then add elbows at each turn. My concern is will the presser be the same at the end of the drip line as it is in the beginning.
This will work- I would just map out the length of the beds, but it's fairly easy to fully pressurize any run under ~500ft, provided that you're not working with a major slope and a ton of emitters.
Dripworks has a good system. The inline 1/2" polytube is awsome, real easy to install larger area
I haven't checked theirs out yet! I really had issues with the Rainbird all in one setups, mostly because their measurements for connectors and tubing weren't standardized, so you couldn't get generic off the shelf pieces and expect them to fit. Idk if they're still like that, but it was annoying the last time I messed with that stuff.
Perfect timing on this video . I need to replace my soaker hose this year and was looking for another option. Do you know how they will hold up in the winter ? I am in upstate New York and afraid they will freeze and crack in the winter. Thanks for another great video.
They could definitely freeze, but it's easy enough to lift and roll up at the end of the season if that's your biggest concern. I'd just take the tapes off the main line and box it all rolled until spring.
You can also blow it all out with compressed air and not have to roll it up.
Very clearly explained :-) Stupid question, any idea what the 15/8/6 mil stand for? (I don't see anything that's 8 mm) :-)
A ‘mil’ is one thousandth of an inch, or .001.
8 millimeters would be about 1/3 of an inch, or a big hole!
@@brucea550 ah ok thanks. So 0.0254 mm or 25.4 micrometer. Never heard of Mils before (being from Europe..)
ok everything looks like its coming together very nicely two green thumbs up again Veronica my one question is you had mentioned that you are using well water that also supplies your house, Here in Ohio Mid August when its most important for water our wells can dry up here when we put extra stress on them. What is your estimated gpm gallon per month consumption that you plan on taking from your well and what can your well produce its worth question i just don't want to see you run into issues when you need your system to work the most for you ;)
Good points, and valid concerns. Our well is pretty deep, and we've never had it go dry even during the last round of droughts (knock on wood), but we are dealing with a lot of vineyards going in around us so we're crossing our fingers that they won't suck the tables dry this summer. No idea what the GPM is for the entire place combined (gardens + stock tanks + orchard + small lawn to keep the dust down), but it would be worth figuring out!
You should make a sand filter that you can move from area to a different spot and will make healthy water then save the minerals use on the garden
I'm trying to find the type of drip tape you showed in your video but so far I have been unable to find anything like it. I was wondering if you have the brand name or can tell me where I would be able to purchase it online? We are new gardeners and my wife and I enjoy your videos and find them very helpful!
Idk what the brand name is- if you search "drip tape" on amazon, you should get a ton of results for all different spacings. You're mainly looking for something that's 5/8" in diameter (standard so the fittings from the hardware supply will work) and has a flow rate around .5gph (most you'll encounter are .46 I think.)
So you store the drip line and reuse it every year ? then layout your garden with the exact same layout each season?
I'm trying to understand if people reuse the material or start over every year.
Hey Veronica, is drip tape best for rows or can it curve around landscapes as well. Im using 1/2 and 1/4" tubing and can move it easily in circles or curves, but the tape seems easier for sure.
Curvature is limited with tape, but you can get some curves, provided that you're not looking to create anything with a very tight radius. I have mine pinned on curves in a few spots across the hugel mounds- the curve is maybe 60-70 degrees at the tightest part, and happens over a distance of 8-10 feet or so. Anything much tighter and the flexible tubing might be a better call. (I actually use a mix of both.)
I'm a old farmer, and learned something about drip tape, folded ends. Thanks. Water filter, and or settling tank, I use a chlorine filter get on eBay. City Folks. Smiles.
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Thanks for your info .
You gain pressure running downhill. The lower parts have more gph (gallons per hour) than the top. I had to make rows run at an angle across because it sloped 2 ways. Otherwise, you need pressure compensating emitters. Just be aware that more water pressure and water as it slopes and less at the top.
Brilliant!
Every 2.33 feet in height of a column of water is 1 pound psi. So a column of water 2.33 feet high would generate 1 psi on a pressure gauge coming off the columns bottom. Every additional 2.33 feet in height of water in that column of water would add an additional 1 psi in pressure on the columns bottom.
If you are feeding your lines from the lower elevation point and the water is thus flowing upwards 4 feet in elevation, quick math in my head says you will lose approximately 1.4 psi at the 4 foot higher end compared to the bottom end pressure. Again, feeding upwards from the bottom. You will always have more pressure at the lower elevation end. Visualizea 4 foot column of water sitting in a pvc pipe. The further you go down in that water, the greater the pressure. The same effect when you swim downwards in a pool. The pressure on your ears increases with depth. I hope this helps.
So if I'm feeding the water downhill from an uphill connection, and the slope is maybe 20-25ft decline (at least) from spigot to 5/8" main line, am I increasing pressure to the point that it stresses my system, or is it negligible because of friction from distance traveled?
Veronica Flores I understood it to be @ a 4 foot elevation change going downhill. It is "elevation" in feet from the bottom lowest point of the drip tubes to the highest. Not length, if I understood your question correctly. Friction loss from flow affecting volume of water is virtually non-existent as your flow velocity and volume is so low.
I have never installed nor handled drip irrigation. Just observed it on TV, UA-cam etc. The manufacturer of your tubing must explain pressure bursting limits for your tubing. I seriously doubt that would happen in your case. The more drip holes you have dripping, you would need more pressure, which you would, or should, control with a pressure regulator and a pressure gauge on the output side of the regulator. I am thinking 30 to 50 bucks for both. Maybe less. Or, you can simply throttle your water supply valve to what you think is the appropriate opening and leave it there. That saves $$. I am thinking you only would need maybe 10 to 15 psi discharge water pressure into your system. You would start adjusting your pressure till you thought all of your drips were dripping as you see fit. I would say don't worry about pressure differences from elevation, etc. Hook your drips up, throttle your water supply till all seems right and call it a day.
Afterthought.......a regulator will adjust it's opening if the SUPPLY pressure varies and will pretty much maintain the desired output psi/flow with varying supply pressures. A throttled supply valve will not. With a throttled valve a6n increase in supply pressure will cause an increased output to the point individual drips drip faster or even pee . A drop in supply pressure will slow the drips drop to next drop time.
I hope all this helps. Like I say, I have never used drip irrigation, but I do know flow, regulators etc from my work. Think Spring.
Sam P -- Good to know though I calculated 2.244. I took 1 atmosphere of pressure change (33 feet) /14.7 PSI giving 2.44. Just nitpicking. Best
Great info- so that sounds pretty negligible, all things considered, but I will look into getting a regulator, as I feel like maybe that's what's blowing out the main connectors at the spigot ends and causing leaks there.
Thanks V !! would you direct water to this system from a hose. Then turn on and off as required. ??
You can! And I did for a long time in this space until we installed a controller. Get a pressure regulator though, and backflow valve between the hose and your faucet.
Do you think you could run a hot clothes iron over the ends of that drip tape? I seem to remember my mom doing that to seal freezer bags before.
I think it might be worth a shot, but idk if it'll stay since drip tape is a little thicker than freezer bags. Doesn't hurt to try though!
A 3 foot drop seems fairly steep, and I'd worry that the ends of the lines of drip tape might not have as much pressure as at the manifold heads.
Have you considered making a manifold at both ends of the drip tape - that is, instead of making an open ended "comb" shape with really long "teeth", closing the ends of the "teeth" with another length of the 5/8" poly? Doing that keeps everything at the same pressure. You might connect them in batches of 2 or 3 to make them easier to move, and still keep them all at the same pressure. If it is a _static_ layout, year after year, connecting the ends might ensure that each section has the same pressure throughout, regardless of the slope.
However, if you change the configuration of your beds or rows often, you would _not_ want to connect the ends.
Does that make sense? If not, I can explain it a bit more.
BTW - I just now found your channel. I love this video, and projects like this, so I subbed.
Yes that totally makes sense! I think I left enough length on both ends of the drip tape too to try this out as well. Now to see if I have enough 5/8" lying around or if I need to get more.
So years ago we tried using soaker hose in one of larger beds. We quickly found that it caused our shallow well pump to short cycle. I assume we'd have the same issue w/ drip tape?
I'm honestly not sure. We run our pump overnight to refill the tanks at the top of the hill (10k gallons total when full), and water from that the rest of the day without issue most of the time, except in the hottest parts of the summer when irrigation is run a little longer, but even then we just lose pressure. Is your pump on a timer, or does it go on automatically when it hits a certain level? No idea what the GPH is on soaker hose, or how it compares.
Yeah, your setup is commercial, vs. residential, so really can't compare them. I installed a dedicated line just to run the watering system on the north side of our property, and it was on a timer, but since we hit the short cycling issue, we abandoned the idea. All beds (except the one we need covered the most - the vegetable garden), are now on an irrigation system. I'm going to run another dedicated line for the veggy garden and try something different. Will need to do some more research and put something in place before it starts getting too hot. Plus, manual watering is inefficient and problematic when we travel. Thanks for keeping up w/ your content, great stuff!
userbosco I’m assuming you have a pressure tank? How many gallons is your pressure tank? Short cycling can be caused by not having a large enough tank.
I am interested in knowing what you hook all your main lines too. Is there a huge manifold of some kind that they all go to that is then hooked into the source?
Yes - big Orbit controller on the wall that's plumbed in. I'm not at this location anymore or I'd take some pictures!
Try spending the money on a filter and get rid of the hard stuff and it will also catch chlorine, and keep from clogging the outputs....
Hi veronica nice vid! Do u have any tips on growing red/violet basil?
It seems to like a little more shade than the green varieties- also I don't let it dry out too much!
Veronica Flores thank you for the tip! 🙂
i came to that conclusion today yes. every time i think i got it all i discover something starting to hang in a corner. But im also a newbie in that area so i cant help you there.
Only i was thinking you put your the plants that need water the most at the lowest level were your water runs to.
Also maybe you can build Terrases.....(hope that translate to english) like they do in the Mountains of indonesia - Thailand
Yeah this garden is semi-terraced, and I run all my irrigation across the slope (with it) rather than down it wherever possible, and plant accordingly. I think the shorter runs should help with evening out pressure though.
After a couple of months with drip tape my wife said "that was a great idea!"
It really is! I used to spend 2-3 hours at my old place watering every day by hand, and it drove my friends nuts bc I could never go out until it was done. Drip is such a time saver.
Awesome
Bury a plastic bottle with each plant, and put water in it sometimes. A lot of work though, if you have a lot of plants.
I'm such a fan of clay ollas as well- if our ground here didn't get so cold in winter, I'd start burying those in a heartbeat!
I'd never heard of those before, but I did hear about unglazed clay being porous. That's awesome!
FYI, Mil is short for mills or thousandths of an inch. Std note book paper is 4 mills or 0.004".
Good tape termination
.443 psi every foot minus friction loss
Can you bury the drip tape, would that prolong the life of it....setting aside your gopher problem?
I usually bury it under mulch. It helps some for sure.
Valuable video
Thank you!
Drip tape thickness is in mils( 1/1,000 inch), not millimeters. Forty mils would be about a millimeter.
I believe it's 8 mil rather than 8mm. This is the size I use too.
about 0.45 psig fer foot of water vertical
Thank you!
wow...
I use rain water
Where are you located? We get 8-10" of rain a year here in the high desert, usually between December through Feb, so we do a lot of mulching and drip irrigation to supplement during actual growing season.
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Really? I live in Baltimore county it gets quite dry here don't you think, in the summer especially after working 10 hour days in July it gets over 100 degrees here my plants don't like it when I'm not home to make sure they are watered and is why I'm going to great lengths to put irrigation in this year.but other than that a lot of plants will do well here with minimal water in spring and fall as we get substantial rain
Jonathan Kosyjana you live in Maryland that's something I use rain barrel systems in some of my videos you might see it. I once had a hook up to a battery to a Shurflo pump and I had it also solar powered it's fun is gardening and you can eat really high-quality food. My whole focus is on growing quality food not how fast but quality
me too
The only 2 things I can suggest is, #1 always use a backflow preventer, you're probably already using one but basically it's just to keep the water in your line from coming back into the house and contaminating the rest of your water. And #2 if the well water becomes a problem beyond treating the actual well water in the well with solution to break up the sediment you can also set up a RO system at the beginning of where your water comes out of, my recommendation is a cheap system that usually costs under $100 but also lets calcium and magnesium through, just so that at least those 2 nutrients will still be in the water, and it'll clean out everything else.
I've been looking at filters but can't seem to decide which one- do you see that it's extra helpful? I'm not too worried about sediment clogging the driplines before the gophers chew through them.
I use www.theperfectwater.com/ filters, their pretty good so far. Plus there's an added benefit of them letting you order the filter that specific to your filtration needs for your home. They are still on the pricey side, but honestly filters in general seem to be rather pricey these days.
I almost never water my garden. Just seedlings.
Wow! Where at and how much rainfall do you get? We're around 10" annually here, so not watering isn't really an option (but lots of mulch helps!)
Once again great ideas... genius kink idea! Totally doing this for my garden this summer. If you get a chance, check out my garden, just uploaded it tonight.
Have you watch chilliechumps you tube channel he us super cool guy you should look him up he is a pepper genius
Add this filter to your water source. It will solve most of your clogging issues
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There is no way I could garden my 2 acres without irrigation timers and drip lines. I would spend all day gardening.
I still spend at least an hour a day watering! Gotta automate the herb garden and greenhouse next...
Yes you do! Then, you get to just enjoy the fun part, and the toil part is handled. :)
:-)
Where can drip tape that's economy?
There are a few retailers online that will give you the best bang for your buck. If you're really in a bind, you can also look at getting fda grade soaker hoses from a garden supply online (just Google it)
Timer?
Yes
Makes a big difference in saving time for other things. @@VeronicaFlores
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