Don't Make This Expensive Mistake On Your Raised Beds!
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Don't make this mistake with your raised bed garden! I tried to save money and time but I ended up wasting more time and money. I added a drip irrigation system but it turned out to be trash. Now I have to redo everything but I'm doing it the way I should have to begin with. I'm running a faucet to every raised bed in our garden so we have complete control over the entire drip irrigation system.
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Spoiler Alert: This wasn't about the raised beds (as the title indicates) - it was about the irrigation system he bought.
good shout, thanks!
Yes, but he still had to post this because he was _hyping the fuck out of his irrigation system_ 10 months before the date of the comment I'm making.
Damage Control.
Thanks!
No backflow prevention?
For raised beds
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I aim to please. 😂 I actually had this video edited when I realized I didn’t have any fart sounds. I went back and added them. 🤣
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Thanks for the video. What do you think of running 3/4” pex in the ground instead of the sticks of pvc?
Line the beds with plastic, fill half with clean rock, then the dirt. Drill a hole at top of rock. It will never over fill, and the water wicks up into the dirt as needed
The rocks will be a breeding ground for grossness...
You forgot to check for leaks under ground before you berried the pipe.
For suburbanites like me, the raised bed gardens are for two things. First, because every couple of years I get a decent home-grown tomato or three. The other is, it gives me something to go out and do to keep myself busy.
Also, they still make both the primer AND the glue for PVC in clear, in case you want to eliminate the technicolor effect.
Hey Brother, love the channel. You've done some good work. However, I will point out. SCH-20 PVC like you have installed works fine for a limited amount of years. Eventually it will crush if your not careful about what you put on top of it. If by chance you do need to replace them due to cracking or whatever, I recomend SCH-40 for any in ground "dirt" type work with PVC pipe. SCH20 works great inside the home without any chance of crushing. But the 20 will even get crushed by your riding mower eventually.
Only reason I know this is by being a septic and plumber for many years. SCh-20 doesnt last in the dirt...It will be fine for a while. Just be aware it has limits.
I use drip hoses rather than drip lines. Lines clog fast.
I hadn't even thought of that.
Did you mean drip tube, drip tape or soaker hoses? Never heard of drip hoses. Soaker hoses definitely clog if you have hard water, even the dig manufacturer told me this and recommended drip tube.
Yeah I used a 1/2” drip tube underground to each bed, 90 degrees up and through the center of each bed, back out and down and back underground to the next and repeat. Once I established the 1/2” tube. I poked holes and ran 1/4” tubes to each plant. I then pea graveled around all the beds so I don’t have to weed whack and damage the tubes. Put it all on a timer and it’s worked amazingly for over a year. Love this channel and it’s supporters.
@@geeyoupee soaker hoses like particalized rubber with tiny holes on well water in n.e. Texas. They last a season or two.
I would recommend emitters run off a 1/4” line so you can control the flow of each individual spread - you can move nozzles around if one plant is not getting enough water or it’s not hitting an area of the bed.
A little tip, PVC will experience degradation from UV light exposure, so it's advised to paint it with an outdoor grade paint to help it from breaking down quicker! Looks good!
Almost all Garden Gnomes have red hats. It's a little Gnome fact.
If you hadn't just told me I would have never Gnome. Thanks! 😂
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Don't forget to use a 3ft piece of rebar next to the pipe to strap it to, for a brace! Good job 👍
Thanks!
I’ve had 1/2” supply and 1/4” feeds with both embedded emitters and attached emitters for years, and have not had your experience. To raised beds and containers. The adapters can and break occasionally but I don’t think everyone should assume based on your experience, that they should not use these. Maybe it was the brand? Also, try and have multiple zones connected to a controller, so we can have different amounts of watering and different watering intervals.
Same here. Mine has worked for 2-3 seasons now.
A couple of additional helps. Install a charcoal for the chlorine and a sediment filter to keep the drippers from getting clogged. Also, apply your pvc adhesive while the primer is still wet.
Young man, you so impressed me when you admitted your little boo boo about the drip system....but when I saw how you were putting the Teflon tape on your threaded fitting...well, now I know why you are called HAXMAN!! (Had to have a plumber show me that trick after I wasted a roll of tape when it got away from me!) I'm surprised your mini Haxers weren't out bending shovels with you...kinda. Great information though!! Looking forward to seeing more of your "adventures" soon! Take care, be safe and God bless!
Thanks Jim! The girls wanted no part of the sand gnat swarm. 😁 You as well!
Disposable gloves are a must when using pipe glue.
Now you tell me. 😁
thank you. noted!!
That’s one of my favorite silly jokes! Thanks fun guy! Fungi😂
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I love that you show stuff when it goes wrong, we need to learn from your experience, thank you.
Don't be too hard on yourself. Projects are an everlasting learning experience. What you did then was apt for the time. You you did now is apt for the time. And the odds are if your future-self warned your past-self, the same would have happened. For those DIYers out there who don't have an indispensable budget. It's an unavoidable part of life.
Thanks!
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I did a whole drip system for a retirement facility, a year later other gardeners tore it up and went back to hand watering. I learned my lesson can't tell stupid what to do.if your not supervising it for get it.
fk i'd be gutted : (
but i guess at a retirement facility there might not be much to do and that would be like golf - a reason to be outside. (i don't like golf, just sayin.)
Some PVC expert will probably yell at me for this, but you can cut your gluing time in half by using the all-in-one primer/glue combo stuff. It's not advised for high pressure or residential application, but you're just making a low pressure garden bed. Also, if your pressure is low enough you can even just friction fit some of your pieces so they can be removed later. I have a bunch of friction fit pipes in my garden so the next spring I can remove them, till up the soil, replant new veggies, and then reinstall the pipes again.
That pinkish fungus is "Wolfs Milk Slime" mold.
Sand gnats or "flying teeth" as we call them here on coastal Florida, are the WORST!! Luckily we don't have them on our inland farm. Tractor Hard! 🚜💪!
They almost make it unbearable to be outside sometimes.
Lemon sudsy ammonia with extra dish detergent out to nip your ants a new one- just a contact spray to keep the annoyance level down when they swarm your work area.
I needed that the other day when working on my well. There was a giant bed right where I had to work.
@@HAXMAN You can also add some isopropyl alky to the mix.
also diatomaceous earth. (gets in under the exoskeleton, like v sharp sand. works on other bugs set up that way)
Green Gobbler Orange Oil mixed 1 oz to 1 gal water kills those suckers dead, and won’t put any harsh chemicals around your food. 4 gal-ish per 2 foot mound. Create a moat around the mound to prevent any escapees then drown it.
You're making me feel lazy, I have been needing to do something like this. My 'temporary' solution of hanging a bar sprinkler from a tree is in it's 4th year of use. I only have 4-8'x4' beds too, you have more than 20 by the sound of it.
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I've been using the Digg brand of irrigation components, for about 6 years now. Love it! Super versatile with cool, cheap range of micro sprayers and valves and drip lines, etc. They even have misters for summertime. You can cover a patio with misters for like $5. With Digg - you could have snapped on some little valves that cost about 20-cents each and controlled the flow of those drippers more accurately. After every winter I expect to see a lot of broken pieces that froze and cracked or that I stepped on under snow - usually only have to replace one or 2 sprayers, and they cost like $2 each and take seconds to snap out and snap in.
I had the same idea to run 1inch pipe to all my beds... but then I thought the kids might get wet while they sleep... 😄
This is a great idea and seems real easy to do, but for me in winter time the pipes would freeze, so I'd have to think of a way to completely flush the pipe in winter.
A small air compressor will do the trick if you have one. Just get an air hose adapter to fit where the water hose attaches. IIRC you want to stay below 40 psi. Has worked great for us
1 inch pipe is total overkill and a waste of money unless your beds are about 10 times the size of his.
I love people with a sense of humor. (Helps to keep the screaming levels down.)
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I love your video thank you
Thank you!
Nice! Tie dyed pipes! 🎉
Always appreciate your videos. And humor is key in life.. ya gotta have fun too right.
Thanks David!
Try a dab of vanilla like cologne for the gnats. Imitation works just fine in my experience.
FYI, you don't have to user primer (purple) and blue, for not potable sources. You could have just used the blue or even the gray, cheaper, and less hassle.
'Weather man said it was 50/50'......that explains why I'm only getting wet on my outsides.
The real 50/50 is when it's only raining on half your yard 😂
I've seen it several times in my nearly 28 years, just a absolute curtain of rain and then a single step (maybe 2 feet) away dry as a bone, sun shining over both sides
I installed drip irrigation in raised beds and it works beautifully because I gave it a little bit of thought and planned the system unlike this guy. The reason his irrigation system didn't work is because he ordered a generic kit and blindly started installing things without any thought at all. Then.. he makes this video acting like it's somebody else's fault. And.. you're saying that the plastic fittings just spontaneously broke? really? You sure you weren't trying to jam it on there? I put about 100 of these things on and they're all fine. My drip system works perfectly.. this guy is lost.
If only we were all as gifted and brilliant as you sir. 🤣
I have used this system for years and love it. But I used cutoff switches to cut off each bed when it does not need it. These switches are essential
Dad jokes are like swamp mosquitos. The world will never run out of them.
The only thing I would have done differently is to use CPVC - the gray stuff - at least for the above ground piping. It is much more tolerant of UV rays. Nice job, though!
I've personally had a great experience with Netafim Techline AS drip line (1/2" or 13mm). It's pressure compensating - each drip hole delivers 3L/hr (0.8 gal/hr) in my configuration, and the holes are about a foot apart... if you need more water, you either run additional drip line in a given bed; run a specific zone for a longer period of time; or purchase it in different configurations (drip hole spacings). Pretty straight forward to install - run your main header pipes (PVC or pressure/ag poly), then at one end of the bed you reduce down to a smaller low density poly pipe (eg. 3/4" or 19mm), and use punch fittings to connect the 1/2" Techline to the low density poly pipe.
My system has been running pretty much flawlessly for a few years now; I've only had one small leak where a fencing contractor literally hit the drip line with a shovel (small tear in the 1/2" drip line), and one punch connector started hissing/leaking at a higher rate.
Keep up the great work! :)
I use a soaker hose, or at least I think that's what it's called. I ran it all through my raised garden bed (17 ft x 19 ft) and pinned it to the soil at the base of each plant with landscape pins. When it's time to water, I turn on the water and let it do it's thing.
That may be what we end up using. I forgot all about soaker hoses.
I really like to make my own pvc hoses that run water quickly and directly to plants. I tie them together and then burn holes near the plants so they only get he water. BUT… pvc has gone up incredibly much in my area (Michigan) and it’s now costly to do this
@@HAXMAN They work great for me. I have woven weed cloth on top of the soil and the soaker hose on top of that. I use "U" shaped landscape staples to hold the hose in place.
@@krickette5569 Ive had these before and they ended up getting clogged, also wont work with accuracy if you have to do an incline.
What movie was the pizza boss on I for got. It driving g me crazy er 😆
Spaceballs
Just run a couple garden hoses in your beds, cap them off and poke holes in them as needed. Then adjust your water flow at the spigot for preferred flow. That's broadly the cheapest way. You can of coarse
Use irrigation line or whatever the same way but expect to pay more.
Actually irrigation line is surprisingly very cheap. Probably the most cost effective .
Get a Pulaski next time you need to trench
Practical Engineering did an episode a while back about watering gardens and soil moisture. His setup might be a bit over the top, with all the sensors and graphs, but maybe something similar would let you automatically maintain the soil moisture level depending on what the plant likes. Just a thought.
Thank you Adam! I was getting ready to install drip irrigation. Now i get to modify my plans before learn your lesson
I hope it helps!
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buried poly-pipe saves ALOT of connector-work, friends! :-))) if using PVC, please know there is a lighter-gauge IRRIGATION-grade pipe. and...there's no shame having exterior-box faucet risers? Why have brass faucets there, anyway, when a ball-valve and whatever in-bed distribution you then use...is just-fine? thanks for the vid
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Spray paint any PVC that is exposed to direct sunlight. It will drastically help with UV degradation of the plastic.
You should've used Pex instead of PVC. Its a couple more dollars per foot but it comes in 100 foot rolls and is faster to install than gluing sticks of PVC. Instead of glue you used metal rings to clamp to your brass fittings. Plus PVC will crack and break overtime, especially in freezes, PEX wont.
Great video so much work. I have used a drip tape that worked, but I hate those timers as none I bought held up well. I installed an electric rainbird timer for an underground system that fed the drip. Had to get a plumber to help me. Clean drinking water is imp, so bought a RO 5 cartridge filter for my sink (Apec $200) love it.
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For years I was sawing my PVC and then I found that same tool... Love it! Wish I'd have found it a long time ago.
Nice job, I can tell you don't live were it freezes. In my area that PVC system would be a bunch of broken pipes in the spring even if you tried to blow them out. In any case, where you went wrong is not having a pressurized system with specific drip emitters. That way you gauge exactly what each plant/bed needs without over watering some and under-watering others on the same timer. My emitters are adjustable. I used to use drip hoses, but that never worked right (more stuff in the trash).
thats way to much work and money..I have 20 raised beds 4x16 and some inground space..I just have several hoses attached to a splitter...water early am or late evening with a sprinkler system..so much easier..why make a hard jpb harder
Thanks for your videos, you're a funny guy. Appriciate your research. However, I use soaker hose. And I got rid of my garden boxes. Much easier.
I grew up in Florida for a number a years and Fk them ants bro. Try smelly stuff, like ICY Hot on your stuff. It works sometimes. Alcohol/Methanol not fun for insects lol
Do you use Diatomaceous earth to help control your fire ants? I live in Central Texas and we've had a bad fire ant problem for decades now... I've had a vegetable garden for almost twenty years now and for the first few years, every potato plant came with a free fire ant mound at harvesting time. A friend suggested I try some DE around the plants, so I researched it online and I started putting some in the ground with each seed potato. Well, that solved the problem!!! My taters used to look AWFUL because they were bitten by fire ants all over. Now, I harvest them and I rarely find a bite mark on them. I've started putting DE around my other plants to at least discourage the fire ants and I've had some success with it that way too.
I like to use 1" poly. I heat up the poly with a torch and 3/4 PVC will slide right in. Use hose clamps to hold it together.
Nice. I can relate to doing this. Right now Im uploading a video tearing chunks out of a company that sold me a dodgy not as advertise piece of cr@p and occasionally, I have to post an entirely new video with a withdrawal because I screwed up haha. Being human is ok :-) The hose still leaks.... Funny. Good hoses are the bane of my existence. They always leak, the connectors lever last long, of for some reason they limit the tap pressure... esp. water timers here in Australia. Nothing like a UA-cam channel to teach a company to put a little more R and D into their stuff before selling imperfect faulty or misleading goods haha
All rubber breaks in our Arizona heat. Its like vehicle windshield wipers they last anout 6 months, I don't care what brand if your vehicle sits outside rubber cracks.
You’re hilarious. I liked the brain fungus, Barney dinosaur, the glue part. Very good video!
Ugh too much work, I think I'll stick with my hose. But, I will see your brain fungus and raise you my dog vomit fungus. :)
Thanks, I've been thinking of trying drip irrigation and that was the one I was looking at, I'll do some more research and maybe just stick with the wicking containers that you only need to water every week or so.
Lmao 🤣
I just so happened to be watching Spaceballs at the exact time I watched this video... Crazy
Great idea but not for me. My acre has eleven fruit trees and old trees removed from old age, to many underground surprise roots. I will stick to my soaker hoses and sprinklers and hand watering. Its not that time consuming. I love being outdoors 90% of the time.
Oh my gosh thank you bro! I just spent like 2 or 3 hundred on all the drip system crap. I was planning this task tomorrow now I won't. I will return all my stuff and shift gears. Thanks for the great info it all makes good sense!
I love mine! From drip depot. Works like a charm. I got the fertilizer bypass this year. Hope it works well
Can we get an update on how this is working for you so far? Everyone I see installing drip irrigation has trouble with parts breaking after a year or so. Did you use the Drip Tape? How is it holding up?
"Now to re-figure out, what I've already figured out".... ahh, the story of my life lol
Brass fittings don't go on PVC fittings, you could of put on a ball valve... C'mon mate
You could paint the exposed pvc green to cover that "neat job" at 7:47, which would also make them blend into the surroundings more.
Yeah, I think I’ll do something like that.
Ghillie cloth. Might have trouble finding them after
You could have made life 100% easier, pex pipe, the cost of the crimper is worth thee time and risk of underground joints
Tap the lid of the PVC glue can on something or with something and it'll loosen that sucker up.
I gave up on my garden had sludge underneath the first 6inched on bagged soil, my stuff seemed to never grow.
I'm actually installing raised beds and drip line this weekend. I like the PVC board but it's so spendy these days. I wish I could find a good supplier for the stuff.
Good luck with your project.
Just a curious question. Is it safe to expose toddlers to baby chicks? Or is there a way to raise chicks with toddlers around?
I've got a dumb question, how are you supplying water to this system? just the hose bib off the house??
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I tried a drip hose too, stapled down with garden staples. Problem - weeds were not easy to remove without pulling the hoses out!
so, where do you live that you don't have to worry about pipes freezing? do you blow it out each fall?
Hey Hax - Thumbs up from Iowa. Starting to plant this weekend as the soil temps are at 60 degrees. Best to Kim and the girls.
Thanks Chuck!
I just bought a drip line kit and timer for it ..I haven't installed them yet . Ugh
You might need pressure regulator so you’re not blowing connectors…🤷🏻
If sand gnats are like no see ums then I feel for you guys! Everytime we visit our fav island in Florida we get eaten alive!
I use the same system but use solid skinny tubbing and put skinny soaker hose at the end and just make it go around the plants and plug the ends of the soaker hose with goof plugs
I did a similar hack on my raised beds .......... mmmmmuuuccchhh better... #greathaxxmen
My wife left me because she never understood why I love this kind of mindset. she never deserved me :D
You can drill a screw into the existing hole so it goes through the other side to give it a sprinkler effect
I thought 50% chance of rain meant it was going to rain but on 50% of the area? Not that it would or wouldnt
Pro tip~ use Red Hot Blue Glue by Christy’s! One step only glue up.
I thought I was the only one who did the “Curly song” when he’s working
Why do people think plumbing is complicated?
U should be going for as little 90 degree bends as possible on water lines
And this is why am old fashion gardener who waters and looks at plants daily and have no friends lol
It's pink slime mold. Otherwise known as wolf's milk.