I grew up in central California surrounded by olives and oranges. I understand drip irrigation and you are using probably the most effective watering system there is. its easy, quick and efficient. as always, another great video from the best channel on you tube. blessings
Your watering system is awesome and that auger on the drill is priceless!! You save so much time! You channel is the BEST! I’m 70 and I can’t do what you guys do but I share your channel and let people I know that have gardens... I share your information!!! Love you guys!! ❤️ God Bless!!!
Of course, show us all your planting. I will never have what all you have planted. But we enjoy what we do plant. Thank you and nay God Bless you and yours..
You two are amazing and such an inspiration. I NEVER thought I would/could do some of the projects and things I am doing. It is all because of your incredible teaching skills and sweet disposition. I am up at 5am, make my coffee, excited for the day and it is all because I and get to watch the latest VLOG. Then start the day. A HUGE Thank you from my kids and I and Gods blessings!
Yes, I want to see what all you’re growing! Seems like you have got everything dialed in and your system with all the parts and setup in place now. It’s going to make the rest so much easier.
I wish I could use this. Tried last year but our water pressure is so low that we didn't get parts watered. It took 5 times as long as using a sprinkler did. You guys are lucky.
Three actually.......if you’re not using mains water and there is fine silt or organic matter in your water it’s a good idea to flush the system out periodically before it bungs up completely.......fine silts can pass through the normal filter meshes ..... very fine filters will reduce the flow and pressure.......maybe too much!!!!!
I realize I am a total LT addict this morning, even though I’m not a farmer: I watched you putting in your first tomatoes and “told” you to put in some of your secret ingredient - rabbit manure!!! Congratulations and best wishes for this new season. JDBurns
I planted our 30 tomato plants along with some herbs yesterday. We’re doing hugel gardening with logs, leaves we saved in the fall , old hay and straw then soil and compost on top. I got 64 pumpkins out of 9 seeds last year doing this method. Our aged compost has chicken manure - like gold I say. Happy planting everyone. Putting seeds in today. Happy Memorial Day too.
I was just thinking the other day that maybe we wouldn’t have as many weed in our garden if we weren’t using sprinklers. Was thinking we needed to get drip hoses. Never knew they made drip tape like this! Our garden will be completely transformed next year! Oh and that auger is genious!!!! Thanks for sharing what you have learned with our family!
It was developed as one time use on large scale operations and they buried it. But of corse it gained popularity with home gardens and homesteaders and if you take care of it you can use it a few years.
WOW!!! You guys are amazing. Not only are you intellectual but extremely talented and very neat. You constantly amaze me. This is a work of art garden. I can’t wait to watch the harvest growing. God bless all of you and give you strength. Such fine examples of lovely people.
Last year, or the year before, Kevin and Sarah did a video about how they plan their garden and time throughout the year. Building in things like processing meats, garden planting, etc. It's quite elaborate but saves them so much time the following year. It's quite a good video for those who have trouble planning things, or figuring things out.
One important thing to note is these low pressure systems operate at around 20 psi so you will need a pressure reducer for the system if you are running it off of your home or street pressure which can run anywhere from 60 -100 psi. That would blow these fittings off :) . Nice video!
YES! I'd love to see everything you're planting... your happiness and knowledge makes the day a little bit brighter😁 God bless you both and your beautiful daughters.
When I get ready to plant my tomatoes I clip all those lower leaves off all plants at once, so I don't have to fiddle with each individual plant in the garden. I also clip them off with scissors, so as to avoid damaging the main stem in any way. I do all my suckers the same way ... with scissors. I also cut off my peppers, tomatoes etc instead of twisting/breaking them off the plant. Of course I can choose to do it that way because I don't have as many plants as you do. I think it is much easier to clip off beans/cucumbers etc and not fight with the plant to remove them. I see so many people struggling with removing beans/peppers etc, that I can't believe they aren't just snipping them off. YMMV ... you've got it down to a system. Although I enjoy the whole gardening process, I do try to streamline some of the smaller steps along the way. Take care you guys.
I don't want to miss a thing! Please film all your planting. I've learned so many new things from you. At first, it looks like so much work, but I can sure see why a little effort in the beginning saves a ton of time and work in the end! God bless you and your family. 💕
Another great video.. Still love to see that you guys work so good together as a team to accomplish a goal. You get so much more done in one day as a team. Thanks for the great info about using the water tape didn't look that difficult to put in either.
Your homestead is set up in an excellent manner. I would be interested in knowing what your yearly costs is to raise your own meat, dairy, fruit and vegetables. I would also be interested in what your yearly expenses are for the items you can not raise yourself.
Used coffee grounds also make a great soil treatment at planting time, especially for these tropical/jungle plants that come from high-organic acid soils, trying to make it in clay ground. Just mix some spent grounds with your backfill, and it will also draw in more worms & subsurface symbiotes to enrich the soil. If you compost, mix the grounds through that as well. Everybody loves coffee :)
Show us everything you plant. I'm putting in a garden this year (been three years) in zone 5 and watching you plant is a great motivation and encouragement.
I Love watching your chanel. I learn so much. Like I learned I should have pruned the bottom leaves and planted my tomatoes deeper. Oh well, there is always next year :) Thank you for being such a great source of inspiring information. Yes I would Love to see what else you are planting. This is my first year trying to grow a years worth of food. So it is wonderful getting all the great little tricks and tips. Take care and keep smiling :)
I have the yard and am behind but have a grow light in the house to feed my obsession! Lol. But this weekend is our plant out. Crossing fingers no more snow for us lol.
Perfect timing. I just ordered my drip irrigation system like 2 days ago. Seriously how did you guys know!😂. Anyway, glad you mentioned about the end clips for the drip tape because I don't think mine came with any.
I save money on end clips by just cutting a 1 inch piece of the tape then when you fold the ends up I squeeze them together and slide the piece of drip tape over the end. Works perfectly.
“Its me again Margrett” in my Ray Stevens voice! We were getting ready to get an irrigation system put in by digging trenches with valves (back breaking) then y’all put this video up and I sent to my husband and his reply was “ this family is my hero”!!! Xoxoxo
I learn so much from you two. I am not a farmer, I just have 2 raised beds and one huge in ground. I will be using a lot of your tricks to improve my gardens. I am addicted to your channel. I watch it every morning while I am having my coffee. Happy farming. God Bless.
You bet I want to see you plant your entire summer garden. I learn so much from you both. I used a jar of canned chicken to make chicken spaghetti. It was delicious!! God bless you both!
Always awesome, looks great as usual. Every year your garden is lush and full. Are you guys doing the melon patch this year? Mmm... fresh melon 😍. Not really a basic but... can you resist?
Because I got the idea from watching your videos, most of the raised bed garden boxes have weed barrier down this year. Just today, planted okra after burning holes in the barrier. It's a blessing to not have to worry about weeds. Next project is to look at ideas to lower the labor and time to water.
I have never heard of using trellises for tomato plants. I'm interested to see how they grow with that instead of tomato cages. Also, just received your rabbit recipe book today and I am excited to try some of those recipes.
Why do some people give a thumb down, they don't have to watch. Unlike me, I find all videos interesting. I have Parkinson's and unable to do gardening, but still enjoy to watch . Thank you. Mo (South Coast UK)
The most organized and most neat Homestead I have ever seen on UA-cam.....You both have excellent Teamwork as a couple in your Homestead.....Love watching you every single day!
please share everything you put in ur garden. I enjoy learning from gardeners. Do not have one, but growing in containers soon from seeds. Grew up in Sacramento, CA. And grew my first corn at 11 years old. Like 20 plants. Have the gardening bug since then. And love gardens.. I do like your show alot. Thanks, keep this informative program going.
I just installed a drip system in one of my plots. There was a problem with keeping the drip tape in position with all the expansion / contraction. The tape gets long and stretches when it's empty and hot, and then contracts when the water cools it. I constantly had to go adjust it's position to correct for the movement. I wasn't going to put a staple every foot to hold it in place (which probably wouldn't have worked anyway). So, I ordered some 1/8" UV protected shock cord material, zip tied it tightly to the end of the drip tape and connected about 3' of cord to a staple ….this assembly keeping constant gentle tension on the tape. So far it's working (one week in). A staple near the feed connection to your manifold is essential to resist the pull of the shock cord from the other end.
Hal Cobb ..... good point my friend....... I’ve used elastic bungy cord at the ends of drip tube and the main feeder pipe which I loosely cable tied to a straining wire which was a couple of inches off the ground and it could then expand and contract easily with the elastic cord just tensioning it slightly and keeping it nice and tidy.
Ed, I picked the 1/8" shock cord over the other (thicker) diameters to keep the inch/lbs of tension down. My assumption was you want a long gentle pull, rather than a large diameter bungee cord (which would put too much tension on the manifold end). My rows are about 90' long, and around 3' of 1/8 shock cord (Ebay) seems to accomplish both: 1. not too much tension, and 2. enough linear 'give' to accommodate the length change on the drop tape. I'm in TX, so the black drip tape becomes essentially a solar hot water collector in the direct sun.
@@edwardgatter4610 I was having the same issue with our drip tape and in the comments further up made a comment and asked for help. You suggested to tie the end of the tape to some sort of an elastic to keep it in place when expanding and contracting. I didn't have anything but old cloth type bungee cords that are long and the tension was not much but enough to keep them in place. So far it's working. Thank you, Edward Gatter for suggesting it to me. You're a good man.
This is the first drip irrigation video I've watched (and I've watched several over the 3yrs of gardening!) that made me feel like I could do it! I'd accepted the fact that I'd be watering by hand, forever 😅. This was so simple and plain! Doing it!!! 🙌🏿 thank you!
Now I have a plan! I saw video on putting drip tape under fabric and that is not what I wanted to do. I will do it on top like you suggested and I can see the emitter working like you said. Thank you so much. I have the drill auger and agree with you that is great. I want max life for fabric and drip system, so here in Michigan, it is best to remove them in fall and re-install in spring. I am 77yo, so weeding is really hurting to do. You did not mention an irrigation timer, but I plan that so I can leave for a few days at a time. I grow less than you do. I had six gardens which is down to three now. That still helps with our food and the chickens. At my age it is important to keep moving. If you just sit in a chair, your on your way out. I just bought a 37ton log splitter and my wife called me insane. Well that might be worth contemplating ... she might be right😂
I love your videos and have learned much from them. I live on a hillside with clay soil and a lot of shade, and have a weed problem, so have switched to container gardening and weed mat. I now grow enough vegetables for the two of us, cauliflower, curly kale, Swiss chard, beetroot, endive, perpetual spinach, Brussels sprouts, tomatoes, and my broad beans are coming on nicely for an early harvest.. I sowed carrots yesterday. I live in New Zealand so we are heading towards winter. The ‘garden’ doesn’t look pretty because I have to find the sunny spots for the containers, but I was very glad to have fruit and vegetables handy during the recent lockdown, and container gardening is so much easier when one is getting old.
Yes please take us along to show us what all you are planting. I really enjoy watching and am grateful for you both taking the time to explain how things work.
This year I have ditched my tomato cages, and went the field fence like you all, with a little test run last year with 6 plants I found it so much better.
Trying to get my husband to start with the drip. We work so hard setting out our plants and then its hit or miss on the weather. There is just two of us home now but we give a lot of our garden to our boys. They really don't have the room to grow much. I can or freeze a lot of our garden harvest and enjoy doing that. We have a tiller that we run through the garden but he uses no material to cover the rows. I'm really going to have to sit him down and make him watch this. Our garden is only about 30 X70. I think. I'm never good at guessing length. lol I don't think it would be that expensive to set up the first year. He is going to be 70 and I am going to be 65 and we don't need to be hoeing or tilling that much. Thanks for posting this. You two are awesome.
Can't wait to see what else you plant! Peppers, cukes, green beans, zucchini, melons, oh goodness, so much fun! When I used to have my big garden, I used the drip hose system. It served so well and didn't waste water.i recommend your site to lots of people. Keep up sharing your farming ideas....my God Nbless you and your girls. Bev
I 💘 your channel of you doing these 👍 videos. Keep ☝ your great content. 😊 Wow, the garden looks so amazing you have a water sprinkle, that's nice. Great Content God Bless you your lovely 👪 have a 👍 day
I grew up in central California surrounded by olives and oranges. I understand drip irrigation and you are using probably the most effective watering system there is. its easy, quick and efficient. as always, another great video from the best channel on you tube. blessings
Huge answer to my many comments on a your garden videos. Thanks guys!
We as a family love to see you'll work in your garden and with your animals. Yes, plz take us along planting
Your watering system is awesome and that auger on the drill is priceless!! You save so much time! You channel is the BEST! I’m 70 and I can’t do what you guys do but I share your channel and let people I know that have gardens... I share your information!!! Love you guys!! ❤️ God Bless!!!
I got one of those augers for Christmas. Made this spring SO much easier.
I want to try an auger this year. It will make planting so easy. I have never thought of using one. What size did you get?
anita house what size auger did you get?
Yes, yes, yes please show all the planting. Thank you. God bless🌻🌱🍅
Yes, yes, yes, please show more videos of planting the garden and your overall care of the garden as the season progresses. Love your channel too!!
I love your gardening videos. Please take us along!
Of course, show us all your planting. I will never have what all you have planted. But we enjoy what we do plant. Thank you and nay God Bless you and yours..
You two are amazing and such an inspiration. I NEVER thought I would/could do some of the projects and things I am doing. It is all because of your incredible teaching skills and sweet disposition. I am up at 5am, make my coffee, excited for the day and it is all because I and get to watch the latest VLOG. Then start the day. A HUGE Thank you from my kids and I and Gods blessings!
Yes, I want to see what all you’re growing! Seems like you have got everything dialed in and your system with all the parts and setup in place now. It’s going to make the rest so much easier.
Of course we want to see what else you are planting. God bless you all!
love the planting auger, they should make a long one so you stand and drill.
We can get long ones where I live, maybe do a bit of google to see if you can find a long one that will ship to you?
I have a long one and a short one. They are out there.
Yes! I want to see your garden planting. 👍😊 thanks for bringing us along.
Drip irrigation is the best thing I've done in my garden. Cuts down on weeds also.
I wish I could use this. Tried last year but our water pressure is so low that we didn't get parts watered. It took 5 times as long as using a sprinkler did. You guys are lucky.
Can’t wait to see what all you are planting in your garden this year. I have followed your videos for several years now. Love it
You guys are awesome God bless
Drip irrigation on timers has really improved my garden yields and made my life so much easier.
Yes, please would love to see you plant the whole garden!!!
Yes please, keep showing what you’re growing and how you do it, gives others great incentive to garden.
The screw-type cap at the far end of the main pipe is there so you can drain all water out of the pipe to prevent freezing.
No, it's so the system builds up water pressure to move h2o through the drip tape.
Thanks for the info! It serves 2 things?
Three actually.......if you’re not using mains water and there is fine silt or organic matter in your water it’s a good idea to flush the system out periodically before it bungs up completely.......fine silts can pass through the normal filter meshes ..... very fine filters will reduce the flow and pressure.......maybe too much!!!!!
You two make it look so easy
Great tips , love your channel
God Bless ,
I realize I am a total LT addict this morning, even though I’m not a farmer: I watched you putting in your first tomatoes and “told” you to put in some of your secret ingredient - rabbit manure!!! Congratulations and best wishes for this new season. JDBurns
Joanne Burns me too love the all the tips will be having having a change in our gardening ways this year.
Same here.
I had ONE question and you answered it. Drip irrigation on to our bottom. Thank you!!
Of course we want to see what you plant 😊😉
Thank you for showing us all of your planting. Take care and thank you for your energy and smiles.
Yes, I would like to see what else you plant, please!
I planted our 30 tomato plants along with some herbs yesterday. We’re doing hugel gardening with logs, leaves we saved in the fall , old hay and straw then soil and compost on top. I got 64 pumpkins out of 9 seeds last year doing this method.
Our aged compost has chicken manure - like gold I say. Happy planting everyone. Putting seeds in today. Happy Memorial Day too.
I was just thinking the other day that maybe we wouldn’t have as many weed in our garden if we weren’t using sprinklers. Was thinking we needed to get drip hoses. Never knew they made drip tape like this!
Our garden will be completely transformed next year!
Oh and that auger is genious!!!!
Thanks for sharing what you have learned with our family!
It was developed as one time use on large scale operations and they buried it. But of corse it gained popularity with home gardens and homesteaders and if you take care of it you can use it a few years.
@@jimmieburleigh9549 I really hope people start to reuse these products; so much waste,
WOW!!! You guys are amazing. Not only are you intellectual but extremely talented and very neat. You constantly amaze me. This is a work of art garden. I can’t wait to watch the harvest growing. God bless all of you and give you strength. Such fine examples of lovely people.
You guys are amazing! I love watching your thoughtful plan unfold, ensuring a bounty of produce for your family.
Last year, or the year before, Kevin and Sarah did a video about how they plan their garden and time throughout the year. Building in things like processing meats, garden planting, etc. It's quite elaborate but saves them so much time the following year. It's quite a good video for those who have trouble planning things, or figuring things out.
@@motherofone1 Thanks for that. I'll look into the video. But I repeat....they are amazing!!
One important thing to note is these low pressure systems operate at around 20 psi so you will need a pressure reducer for the system if you are running it off of your home or street pressure which can run anywhere from 60 -100 psi. That would blow these fittings off :) . Nice video!
That is correct. We reduce ours down to 15psi
I need that bit for next year. Hand dug 100 tomato plant holes and 50 green pepper plants.
You will not regret it, such a time and back saver
YES! I'd love to see everything you're planting... your happiness and knowledge makes the day a little bit brighter😁 God bless you both and your beautiful daughters.
When I get ready to plant my tomatoes I clip all those lower leaves off all plants at once, so I don't have to fiddle with each individual plant in the garden. I also clip them off with scissors, so as to avoid damaging the main stem in any way. I do all my suckers the same way ... with scissors. I also cut off my peppers, tomatoes etc instead of twisting/breaking them off the plant. Of course I can choose to do it that way because I don't have as many plants as you do. I think it is much easier to clip off beans/cucumbers etc and not fight with the plant to remove them. I see so many people struggling with removing beans/peppers etc, that I can't believe they aren't just snipping them off. YMMV ... you've got it down to a system. Although I enjoy the whole gardening process, I do try to streamline some of the smaller steps along the way. Take care you guys.
I don't want to miss a thing! Please film all your planting. I've learned so many new things from you. At first, it looks like so much work, but I can sure see why a little effort in the beginning saves a ton of time and work in the end! God bless you and your family. 💕
Another great video.. Still love to see that you guys work so good together as a team to accomplish a goal. You get so much more done in one day as a team. Thanks for the great info about using the water tape didn't look that difficult to put in either.
Seeing you plant is as exciting to me as it is for you guys. Please share all your planting with us!
Your homestead is set up in an excellent manner. I would be interested in knowing what your yearly costs is to raise your own meat, dairy, fruit and vegetables. I would also be interested in what your yearly expenses are for the items you can not raise yourself.
We bought a similar irrigation system for our garden (300 sq ft plantable) last year: it is life-changing! Wish we’d done it sooner.
Used coffee grounds also make a great soil treatment at planting time, especially for these tropical/jungle plants that come from high-organic acid soils, trying to make it in clay ground. Just mix some spent grounds with your backfill, and it will also draw in more worms & subsurface symbiotes to enrich the soil. If you compost, mix the grounds through that as well. Everybody loves coffee :)
Show us everything you plant. I'm putting in a garden this year (been three years) in zone 5 and watching you plant is a great motivation and encouragement.
I Love watching your chanel. I learn so much. Like I learned I should have pruned the bottom leaves and planted my tomatoes deeper. Oh well, there is always next year :) Thank you for being such a great source of inspiring information.
Yes I would Love to see what else you are planting.
This is my first year trying to grow a years worth of food. So it is wonderful getting all the great little tricks and tips.
Take care and keep smiling :)
I just love how organized y’all are. Love your videos.
I'm like, "oh no, I need to see everything else planted." My hopes are that will be tomorrows video. Thank you both and bless you!
Got some fabric to try this year. Thanks for sharing. Happy planting
Cool video, keep up the great content, so happy I found your channel! from a smaller gardening channel 😀👍😀👍
Love seeing what you are growing! And the great way you are doing it! Gives me ideas! Thank you!
My garden goals right here once I actually have a yard..😂
I have the yard and am behind but have a grow light in the house to feed my obsession! Lol. But this weekend is our plant out. Crossing fingers no more snow for us lol.
Container garden!
Lol
Really great explanation of how to install the drip irrigation. It makes it look very easy to do.
Once again another good vid, did notice the new gloves lol, I thought it was time for the old gloves to retire lol.
Lol I totally noticed the new gloves as well.
LOL I noticed too!
Drip irrigation is great! I love being able to take vacations and coming to beautiful plants ❤
Perfect timing. I just ordered my drip irrigation system like 2 days ago. Seriously how did you guys know!😂. Anyway, glad you mentioned about the end clips for the drip tape because I don't think mine came with any.
I save money on end clips by just cutting a 1 inch piece of the tape then when you fold the ends up I squeeze them together and slide the piece of drip tape over the end. Works perfectly.
Super Kevin and Sarah, you two are amazing hard workers and very intelligent, thanks for explaining the whole process to all of us.
“Its me again Margrett” in my Ray Stevens voice! We were getting ready to get an irrigation system put in by digging trenches with valves (back breaking) then y’all put this video up and I sent to my husband and his reply was “ this family is my hero”!!! Xoxoxo
I learn so much from you two. I am not a farmer, I just have 2 raised beds and one huge in ground. I will be using a lot of your tricks to improve my gardens. I am addicted to your channel. I watch it every morning while I am having my coffee. Happy farming. God Bless.
Glad you have started planting. I’ll be happy to eat that first tomato and my first bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich. Yummy
Where do you buy woven fiber for weed free gardening
You bet I want to see you plant your entire summer garden. I learn so much from you both. I used a jar of canned chicken to make chicken spaghetti. It was delicious!! God bless you both!
Always awesome, looks great as usual. Every year your garden is lush and full. Are you guys doing the melon patch this year? Mmm... fresh melon 😍. Not really a basic but... can you resist?
Yes we are!
Because I got the idea from watching your videos, most of the raised bed garden boxes have weed barrier down this year. Just today, planted okra after burning holes in the barrier. It's a blessing to not have to worry about weeds. Next project is to look at ideas to lower the labor and time to water.
I have never heard of using trellises for tomato plants. I'm interested to see how they grow with that instead of tomato cages. Also, just received your rabbit recipe book today and I am excited to try some of those recipes.
Yes, I want to see what your planting. You guys opened my eyes on how to self sustain our selves. Thank you again. God Bless you guys.
I'm trying Jetstar this year. Can't wait to taste them. The garden is coming along wonderfully. Where did you purchase the drip irrigation from?
Where do you get the jet star ? Are they started by seed beds you’ve planted yourself or are you ordering seedlings?
@@karenwilliams2315 most local green houses carry the jet star.
Love it all. Show us everything. You two are so nice, fun, down to earth. You take me away from the terrible time that’s going on now. Thank you.
Why do some people give a thumb down, they don't have to watch. Unlike me, I find all videos interesting. I have Parkinson's and unable to do gardening, but still enjoy to watch . Thank you. Mo (South Coast UK)
Very nice. Thanks for sharing this. All the way from Philippines
The most organized and most neat Homestead I have ever seen on UA-cam.....You both have excellent Teamwork as a couple in your Homestead.....Love watching you every single day!
please share everything you put in ur garden. I enjoy learning from gardeners. Do not have one, but growing in containers soon from seeds. Grew up in Sacramento, CA. And grew my first corn at 11 years old. Like 20 plants. Have the gardening bug since then. And love gardens.. I do like your show alot. Thanks, keep this informative program going.
Good 🌄 to you guys. Yes it will be 👍 to take us through it ,i 😃 everytime i see it. I just go to thinking about all those cute vegetables.
Yes, please share more of your garden process! I’ve never used a drip system and that’s something I want to try. Thanks for sharing. God bless !
Fantastic video. Thanks for sharing your work.
I just installed a drip system in one of my plots. There was a problem with keeping the drip tape in position with all the expansion / contraction. The tape gets long and stretches when it's empty and hot, and then contracts when the water cools it. I constantly had to go adjust it's position to correct for the movement. I wasn't going to put a staple every foot to hold it in place (which probably wouldn't have worked anyway). So, I ordered some 1/8" UV protected shock cord material, zip tied it tightly to the end of the drip tape and connected about 3' of cord to a staple ….this assembly keeping constant gentle tension on the tape. So far it's working (one week in). A staple near the feed connection to your manifold is essential to resist the pull of the shock cord from the other end.
Hal Cobb ..... good point my friend....... I’ve used elastic bungy cord at the ends of drip tube and the main feeder pipe which I loosely cable tied to a straining wire which was a couple of inches off the ground and it could then expand and contract easily with the elastic cord just tensioning it slightly and keeping it nice and tidy.
Ed, I picked the 1/8" shock cord over the other (thicker) diameters to keep the inch/lbs of tension down. My assumption was you want a long gentle pull, rather than a large diameter bungee cord (which would put too much tension on the manifold end). My rows are about 90' long, and around 3' of 1/8 shock cord (Ebay) seems to accomplish both: 1. not too much tension, and 2. enough linear 'give' to accommodate the length change on the drop tape. I'm in TX, so the black drip tape becomes essentially a solar hot water collector in the direct sun.
@@edwardgatter4610 I was having the same issue with our drip tape and in the comments further up made a comment and asked for help. You suggested to tie the end of the tape to some sort of an elastic to keep it in place when expanding and contracting. I didn't have anything but old cloth type bungee cords that are long and the tension was not much but enough to keep them in place. So far it's working. Thank you, Edward Gatter for suggesting it to me. You're a good man.
Good Morning and thanks!
Your videos are all super. What you show here is efficient and not at all difficult to install. The tip for the auger is the best.
Can't wait to see the things you are able to preserve!
Yes, please show us more planting!!!
I want to see everything you plant..
This is the first drip irrigation video I've watched (and I've watched several over the 3yrs of gardening!) that made me feel like I could do it! I'd accepted the fact that I'd be watering by hand, forever 😅. This was so simple and plain! Doing it!!! 🙌🏿 thank you!
Your explanations on whatever y'all do is outstanding ! I have picked up so many great things.
Yes, please show us your garden planting. Love watching you guys!!❤
Yes please. Would love to watch you plant everything!❤️❤️❤️
We started using a hole drill this year. They are such a time saver!!
Hi where did you get the hole drill from
Sure I want to see. And thanks for showing the watering system!
Now I have a plan! I saw video on putting drip tape under fabric and that is not what I wanted to do. I will do it on top like you suggested and I can see the emitter working like you said. Thank you so much. I have the drill auger and agree with you that is great. I want max life for fabric and drip system, so here in Michigan, it is best to remove them in fall and re-install in spring. I am 77yo, so weeding is really hurting to do. You did not mention an irrigation timer, but I plan that so I can leave for a few days at a time. I grow less than you do. I had six gardens which is down to three now. That still helps with our food and the chickens. At my age it is important to keep moving. If you just sit in a chair, your on your way out. I just bought a 37ton log splitter and my wife called me insane. Well that might be worth contemplating ... she might be right😂
Love the way you water the garden. I'm going to get it for my garden. It will save me soooooo much time. Thank you.
I enjoy the instructions you give as you do each step of your garden.
Yes, would love to see you plant each variety...giving spacing, also.💚
I love your videos and have learned much from them. I live on a hillside with clay soil and a lot of shade, and have a weed problem, so have switched to container gardening and weed mat. I now grow enough vegetables for the two of us, cauliflower, curly kale, Swiss chard, beetroot, endive, perpetual spinach, Brussels sprouts, tomatoes, and my broad beans are coming on nicely for an early harvest.. I sowed carrots yesterday. I live in New Zealand so we are heading towards winter. The ‘garden’ doesn’t look pretty because I have to find the sunny spots for the containers, but I was very glad to have fruit and vegetables handy during the recent lockdown, and container gardening is so much easier when one is getting old.
Yes I love to see you planting and what you plant. God bless
Yes, I want to see more planting. THANKS for all your hard work!
Yes please take us along to show us what all you are planting. I really enjoy watching and am grateful for you both taking the time to explain how things work.
This year I have ditched my tomato cages, and went the field fence like you all, with a little test run last year with 6 plants I found it so much better.
Yes, please!! Show us what else you are planting! Thank you so much for sharing this with us. 🙋♀️🌞🌞💕🌻
Trying to get my husband to start with the drip. We work so hard setting out our plants and then its hit or miss on the weather. There is just two of us home now but we give a lot of our garden to our boys. They really don't have the room to grow much. I can or freeze a lot of our garden harvest and enjoy doing that. We have a tiller that we run through the garden but he uses no material to cover the rows. I'm really going to have to sit him down and make him watch this. Our garden is only about 30 X70. I think. I'm never good at guessing length. lol I don't think it would be that expensive to set up the first year. He is going to be 70 and I am going to be 65 and we don't need to be hoeing or tilling that much. Thanks for posting this. You two are awesome.
Can't wait to see what else you plant! Peppers, cukes, green beans, zucchini, melons, oh goodness, so much fun! When I used to have my big garden, I used the drip hose system. It served so well and didn't waste water.i recommend your site to lots of people. Keep up sharing your farming ideas....my God Nbless you and your girls. Bev
Good luck getting the rest planted before it rains! God bless!
Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. Your videos are educational & fun. May God continue to bless you.
I 💘 your channel of you doing these 👍 videos. Keep ☝ your great content. 😊 Wow, the garden looks so amazing you have a water sprinkle, that's nice. Great Content God Bless you your lovely 👪 have a 👍 day
Yes,yes,yes!!! Of course we want to see you plant the garden!!! Love it! Thanks for all of your videos.
Yes, please do show us the planting of all of your garden! Love this!
Inquiring minds would love to see how and what you plant in your garden! Bless you and your Family!