Thanks so much for these videos!! One thing that would be helpful is a list of the Drip Depot parts you're using (by SKU if possible). I find myself pausing and squinting to read the SKUs as you hold up the parts. 🙂 And I'm still trying to fing the drainage valve part on the DD site!
I'm happy to be timely! Glad to hear it. I will probably be 2-3 weeks out for the raised bed video, though. It's going to take me a few weekends to piece them together, film and edit it all. Filming makes the process 5 times longer because of all the camera angles you have to place.
Just spent the last two days installing my drip irrigation for my fruit trees. Glad its over...worth the hard work!! I hope the trees will take off now! Hand watering was a big chore
It definitely is. In the time that it takes for me to water my garden, I could set up drip irrigation to 3 beds. Glad to hear your hardest work is over!
Good video. I live out of of the city and somewhat in the country. Not too far out.. I have a well with plenty of free water that I doubt will ever run dry due to my being close to the great lakes. Even then I still use a rain barrel.
Very helpful video and good engineering work. When I set up my drip and micro sprinkler system I had left over parts I didn’t need and parts I needed that I didn’t have!
I'm sure I'll run into that problem. I'm almost certain I will be 100-200 ft short of distribution tubing, and I will have to order more. However, I'm going to set up my container garden last, because that's the easiest to water manually. I placed my order with the intent that if I wind up short, I'll just piece together the container garden portion. As long as I have the raised beds taken care of, life is good.
Dude, your my hero. Look @ your backyard! I am just installing a bed for the 1st time & was wondering how you incorporate a drip line into it. Have rainbirds that pop up in the backyard but I want to put in drip system. What an amazing backyard, who needs all that grass, yeah some for the dog or kids but I want most of it for fruit trees & food. Just put in tree of life & fig- planting the blueberry next week. My husband thinks I'm crazy- but I'm on my way!
I'm glad you found it helpful! Early this spring, I will be running drip lines to my container garden as well, so I will have a complete guide on that this spring!
This video was fantastic! You answered so many of my questions. Putting where to find all of the connectors will be so helpful. Looking forward to the next two videos.
Thanks. As I stated in the video, they are all from the website DripDepot. You have to customize the parts you need to your specific design. They have dozens of sample designs in their literature, so I recommend going to their website and checking them out. They also sell pre-fab kits for small setups.
I bought all my parts for the drip system in the fall and winter knowing that prices on Chinese plastic would at least double if you could get it at all. I only have my fruit trees connected so glad I found your videos. Actually been enjoying your videos...your clear and precise method of teaching is excellent!
Great video - the only one I've found to handle combining rainwater and tap water. I'm going to try this exact same thing, but where would you add a timer to this? right after they Y where the two water sources come together? I don't mind manually switching from the rainwater tank when it runs out, but i don't want to have to go out and turn things on and off all time.
Great video! I just moved to a 1 acre property, and I wanted a way to supply water by rain barrels and house water. Your video is clear and straightforward.
I did all of my drip irrigation with Drip Depot parts too. I’ve purchased some extra parts from other brands on Amazon and they are extremely inferior to Drip Depot, despite being around the same price! Drip irrigation is such a game changer. Having a timer is crucial too. Everything gets watered evenly early in the morning right before the sun comes up, which is especially important in the scorching hot summers my area sees. Great video as usual!
Excellent to hear. I knew I made the right choice going with Drip Depot. I can't wait to finish my setup. I must've spent 2 hours today fertilizing my garden with 5 gallon buckets and 1.5 gallon watering cans. I hope to never have to do this again and just feed everything through my rain barrels.
I've been using drip depot for a couple years now. I haven't had any issues with them (prices are among the best, too). FYI they make in-line mixers for both drip pressures and hose pressures if you want to do your fertilization in batches without putting stuff in your barrels. Just gotta make sure you have a backflow preventer when you use the hose bibs. Another heads-up, you'll have to clean that in-line filter very frequently. Any algae will clog it instantly. Might be worth setting up your zone shutoffs in a way for you to connect an air compressor to blow out all the lines at the end of the season. I'll add a removable cap to the end of each of the mainlines (faster to get the water out that way) and then once the mainline is cleared, you can go section by section and get all of the emitters cleared out. The more stuff you have in parallel without individual shutoffs, the more of a pain it can be to drain at the end of the season. I've gravity drained part of our mainlines before, but I doubt that does anything for your 1/8" mainline to the emitters or any of your dripline. I totally need to get my shutoffs hidden in valve boxes, right now they're just under mulch and marked with some rocks. I don't think I'm quite ready to connect our rainbarrels to the drip irrigation yet. I'm fairly certain our runs are too long to just run off of gravity feed. For the rainwater, I think I'm going to just get a lift-pump and use them to hand water / fertilize with an inline injector or siphon.
I will probably look into an in-line fertilizing option later down the road. I’m not concerned about the lines freezing because it only freezes at night here, so the drain valve I installed should be sufficient. It rains a lot here, so my rain barrels will be flushed out a lot. It should help keep algae down, but on the other hand, using the barrels to mix fertilizer could cause a bloom. It’ll be a lot of experimenting.
Thank you for this. I made the mistake of deploying a drip tube with a minimum PSI requirement so gravity-fed will not even drip slowly from my barrels. I may have to reinvent in the future once I get significant barrels collected.
Thank you! I have my rain barrels and been planing to add a drip irrigation system. I wanted to use the home irrigation system and house line, but was concerned about using the unclean rain water. I was not aware of the filter. You are the man. Thank you for the detailed video as always.
@@TheMillennialGardener Your educational and informative videos have positively influenced my garden. On a new issue, I have begun to do research but have not found solid answers yet. Something is eating some of my fig tree leaves, leaving little left. I have tried to inspect the leaves like I would with tomatoes and other plants but cannot find the insect. With your experience with fig trees, I would be grateful for any suggestions. I wish I could send you an image. Thank you, Northern VA
Tie one end of the distribution tubing to a tree, slowly back from the tree allowing the tubing to gently and slowly untwist. In coiled form, it is twisted and will kink 100% of the time, guaranteed. It is this twist that creates the condition of kinking, mostly.
Nice addition with the water barrels! Wish we could use them but doesn't rain here enough. Permaloc fitting are the best. (PSI Requirements is 25psi for tube, 15psi for tape.) For my setup I used drip tube for bushes,trees and drip tape for long runs in the vegetable garden. I used an auto flush valve to automatically drain the line after each watering (a little overkill). Also installed a controller so I could separate my zones to control the water each zone gets and so I can water early in the morning in order to prevent evaporation.
I would argue that the areas where it doesn't rain a lot are the areas you want rain barrels the most. Every drop becomes precious. The idea behind the rain barrels isn't just to collect water, though. They're also tanks to mix fertilizer and distribute the fertilized solution evenly.
@@TheMillennialGardener Really great point. I haven't hooked up inline fertilization to my irrigation setup yet (future update) however I'm considering my options. Appreciate the feedback and all your great videos, cheers!
Excellent Investment.This will save you A LOT of time.Will it be difficult to address plants with different water requirements? A Homogeneous dose of water to all and then hand/hose water to those plants needing more water.I suppose you will turn off system on days when there has been ample Rain...Dale you are a Handsome Sausage !
I am installing shut-off valves on each raised bed, so I will be able to control what fertilizer goes where. Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, etc. can all share the same fertilizer, but I certainly wouldn't want to feed my fruiting vegetables with the higher nitrogen mix I make for my greens. That would be a disaster for fruit. The shut-off valves are only around $3-4 a piece, so I made sure to get one for every single bed. It's a lot of work installing, but like you said, it'll save so much time, and I only need to do it once. If we are what we eat, that explains why Dale is a giant sausage 😅
If you found this video helpful, please "Like" and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience: 0:00 Three Tips For Installing Drip Irrigation 2:40 Preparing The Main Line Distribution Tubing 2:57 Installing A Pressure Regulator On A House Spigot 3:58 Installing A House Line Leader Hose 4:25 Installing A Sediment Filter On A Rain Barrel System 5:39 Installing A Leader Hose From Rain Barrels 5:58 Joining A House Line And Rain Barrel To One Distribution Line 8:04 How To Install Drip Irrigation Fittings To Distribution Tubing 8:25 Installing Drip Irrigation To Three Irrigation Zones 11:16 Installing A Diverter Valve To Winterize Drip Irrigation Lines 11:31 Installing A Valve Box To Improve Aesthetics 11:50 Burying The Drip Irrigation Distribution Line 15:13 Adventures With Dale
sometimes I wonder if you could use the house water pressure to siphon the rain barrel water. I wonder if that is easy to setup with as high of a flow as possible for the rain barrel, probably needs to be a sealed system because the house water would pressurize whatever you are syphoning.
Thank you for the very helpful video! I'm about to build my own rain barrel/house connection drip system. I'm wondering if you considered adding any automation to it and whether you had ideas for check valves. I purchased a RainPoint Bluetooth hose water timer that I will connect at the house and then continue with the same house line leader hose setup. This should automate the drip irrigation from the house. However, I can't add a second hose timer to the rain barrel because there is not enough pressure for it to function. I've been looking at some manual timers for the rain barrel connection. My thought process is this...the system should use rainwater first, then there is a soil sensor that connects to the Bluetooth hose timer on the house. If the rain barrel is empty and the soil is still dry, then the house water should kick in. The problem I see is how do I prevent the rain barrel from filling up with house water. I would need some sort of check valve, or I'll have to manually switch the water source at the Y fitting. Any thoughts?
Im surprised youtube hasnt taken down your video because you said you cant put male ends together. Lol, seriously good video, thanks for sharing your experience. We have used Drip Depot and have been happy too.
Love all your videos!!! I noticed on the website the kits come with different diameter hoses. Would you recommend keeping all the sizes the same, or leave it like it comes in the kit. My setup is a lot like yours, will be fed from rain barrels, house line, going into ground plants as well as containers and raised beds. Thank you!!
You definitely can! The work itself is very simple. It's all in the planning. Lay out the equipment you need beforehand, measure twice before you cut and take your time. It can be a fun weekend project.
Great Video! Im curious what kind of dripping outlet are you going to install on your fig trees, how many gallons per hour and so on ? And thank you so much for your informational videos !
Thank you. I'll probably install 0.5 gal/hr drippers to the 5 gallon paint buckets and 1 gal/hr drippers to the large, black containers. That should make things evenly distributed per volume.
I’ve used a RainPoint WiFi water timer in the past. Is there one you recommend? I would have thought that you would have connected the house water to a timer.
would be nice if you had links to your other two in this series. Was wondering how to control drip rate for container gardening. Gravity fed does NOT work with drippers.
I have a playlist with the videos on it here: czcams.com/play/PL1gY7BoYBGIHHHsx0JPcYgD4xXzA96usL.html For gravity feed to work with drippers, you would need a lot of head pressure, so your water source would have to be pretty high. I plan on adding a water transfer pump to my rain barrel to solve this problem.
New to gardening- I have a garden bed perhaps 20m long. Will water drain from one end (tank) to the other if there are holes drilled every now and again in the plastic pipe (how to know if there be enough pressure?). If water just goes into the holes closest to the tank and doesn't reach the other end, doesn't meet my purpose
Love your videos. Thanks for all the information. Question - what is the fabric you use on the ground around all your raised beds? I am looking for something strong enough to walk on and last for several years.
I have just laid visqueen through out my planned garden area on both sides of my shed. Currently the visqueen is under all my raised beds, which I have not added soil to yet. I was wondering, if you cut out the visqueen under your raised beds or maybe just poked a few holds in the visqueen, to let water drain?
Odd question. could you run the house water hose into the rain barrel and attach itto a toilet flapper(?) if that's what it's called.... When the water in the rain barrel gets low, it would automatically fill up a bit. Or would that not work? (just spitballin' here. I loved your video.
I've just bought the errigation kit last night. I wish I watch your vedio sooner. How to call this three way splitter? I couldn't find it in drip depot. Great vedio! Thanks so much!
It is Part 1202, Irritec Perma-Loc Tubing Cross - Size : 1/2". You will have to purchase three Part #1191 Irritec Perma-Loc Tubing Coupling Valve - Size : 1/2" as well, so you can turn it on and off.
My White Madeira was split resistant. Heavy rains would still damage the fruit, but it wouldn't split in half like a Black Madeira or I-258, which explode like a grenade. I did not get enough fruit on my DSJG the first season to really assess its split resistance. I'll need another season to figure that one out, but the fruits I did get were the best tasting figs I've had to date.
I looked in your store for the T filter you showed plus searched for it and couldn’t find one. QUESTION: Would you please provide a link to where you purchased this. Thank you. Hopefully I will hear from you soon as I plan on installing a rain barrel drip irrigation system too. You have inspired me!
The T-filter is sold through Drip Depot, and isn't listed on my Amazon Store. All the specific irrigation parts were purchased through Drip Depot. The only items linked on my Amazon Storefront are the generic parts (hose connectors, hole punch, tubing cutters, etc.). You will have to go to Drip Depot's website and custom build your application. They have tons of parts.
I do not like soaker hoses. Almost all the water comes out of the first few feet, and the remaining hose produces almost no drip effect at all. I think they're a horrible invention, and I never use them as a result. I recommend drip tape instead. It is much more effective and 10% of the cost.
At around 2:22 you recommend a tube cutter/hole punch tool. I'd like to buy one if you could please mention the brand and where it can be purchased? Thanks so much for a terrific video!
A pump is not necessary when fed by the house line, because the water main in the street (or your well if you have one) is already pressurized. When fed by the rain barrels, I don't need a pump, because I use a gravity feed shown here: czcams.com/video/NmAHq447XkY/video.html If you want to use rain barrels, but you don't want to elevate them, you're going to have to install a pump somewhere after the rain barrel. That will be up to you, because every system will be different.
Hi. Could you help me to understand drip irrigation system without rain barrel. I could not figure it out. We only have raised bed and containers. Please help. Thank you.
I have a guide on setting up the rain barrels here: czcams.com/video/szMxYIKDXmU/video.html As long as the rain barrels are at a higher elevation than the drip lines, the water will make it.
It is enough to make it to the beds, but I don’t think it’ll be enough to make a 90 degree turn and irrigate. I think I will have to add a transfer pump.
No. The raised beds are built out of 2x8's, which have a depth of 7-1/4 inches. The 7 inches of soil is enough to suffocate anything on the ground, so there is no need to have landscape fabric under the beds. I use weed barrier in the walkways as permanent weed suppression. You can set your raised beds on bare ground no problem with no fabric or barrier underneath, as long as you don't have a mole or vole problem. If that's the case, it isn't a bad idea to staple hardware cloth to the underside of the bed so nothing can burrow in, but plants can still get their roots through hardware cloth. If you are going to place the raised beds directly on top of a lawn and you want peace of mind, mow the lawn as close as your mower can handle, then just toss some cardboard boxes on the ground before filling the bed. The cardboard boxes will suffocate any lawn underneath and naturally biodegrade.
I want to do this but I'm concerned the water pressure from the barrels won't be high enough to get to the furthest parts of the drip system. How is yours doing?
If you are running drip irrigation to a garden from a rain barrel, it will likely need a water transfer pump integrated. For a gravity fed system to work, the barrels need to either be right next to the garden, the garden needs to be small, or the water tank needs to be very high up. For a barrel and garden setup like mine, it won't be possible to feed the garden via the rain barrels without a transfer pump.
I would like to buy all the material for my drip irrigation System! But I want to know if you have any chart with the name of material and the measure of each one? Thank you!
Thanks so much for these videos!! One thing that would be helpful is a list of the Drip Depot parts you're using (by SKU if possible). I find myself pausing and squinting to read the SKUs as you hold up the parts. 🙂 And I'm still trying to fing the drainage valve part on the DD site!
I desperately NEEDED THIS VIDEO SERIES, toDAY!!!!!!!♥️ ♥️ ♥️
I'm happy to be timely! Glad to hear it. I will probably be 2-3 weeks out for the raised bed video, though. It's going to take me a few weekends to piece them together, film and edit it all. Filming makes the process 5 times longer because of all the camera angles you have to place.
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Just spent the last two days installing my drip irrigation for my fruit trees. Glad its over...worth the hard work!! I hope the trees will take off now! Hand watering was a big chore
It definitely is. In the time that it takes for me to water my garden, I could set up drip irrigation to 3 beds. Glad to hear your hardest work is over!
Good video. I live out of of the city and somewhat in the country. Not too far out.. I have a well with plenty of free water that I doubt will ever run dry due to my being close to the great lakes. Even then I still use a rain barrel.
Very helpful video and good engineering work. When I set up my drip and micro sprinkler system I had left over parts I didn’t need and parts I needed that I didn’t have!
I'm sure I'll run into that problem. I'm almost certain I will be 100-200 ft short of distribution tubing, and I will have to order more. However, I'm going to set up my container garden last, because that's the easiest to water manually. I placed my order with the intent that if I wind up short, I'll just piece together the container garden portion. As long as I have the raised beds taken care of, life is good.
Dude, your my hero. Look @ your backyard! I am just installing a bed for the 1st time & was wondering how you incorporate a drip line into it. Have rainbirds that pop up in the backyard but I want to put in drip system. What an amazing backyard, who needs all that grass, yeah some for the dog or kids but I want most of it for fruit trees & food. Just put in tree of life & fig- planting the blueberry next week. My husband thinks I'm crazy- but I'm on my way!
Your video was very impressive extremely educational can’t thank you enough for sharing.
I'm glad you found it helpful! Early this spring, I will be running drip lines to my container garden as well, so I will have a complete guide on that this spring!
Man I was JUST talking to my friend about doing something like this this week! Perfect timing
Glad I had good timing! Thanks for watching!
greetings vanilla farmers from Indonesia🇮🇩
Thanks for watching from the other side of the planet! I appreciate it.
Great video! Teflon tape can prevent any of your threaded connections from leaking. Sometimes the rubber gaskets just don't do the trick.
I have watched many videos and this is the best I am seen yet. Thank you the simplicity of your explanation and the detailed video.
Glad it was helpful! I really appreciate that. Thanks for watching!
This video was fantastic! You answered so many of my questions. Putting where to find all of the connectors will be so helpful. Looking forward to the next two videos.
Thanks. As I stated in the video, they are all from the website DripDepot. You have to customize the parts you need to your specific design. They have dozens of sample designs in their literature, so I recommend going to their website and checking them out. They also sell pre-fab kits for small setups.
I bought all my parts for the drip system in the fall and winter knowing that prices on Chinese plastic would at least double if you could get it at all. I only have my fruit trees connected so glad I found your videos. Actually been enjoying your videos...your clear and precise method of teaching is excellent!
Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying the videos. I really appreciate you watching.
hands down one of the best CZcams video on this subject
Glad to hear it! That’s what I was going for. There was a lack of good videos on the subject, and I had to figure a lot of it out for myself.
Been wondering how to build irrigation, thank you! Can’t wait to build my system!
Best of luck! It's definitely a worthy investment.
Great video - the only one I've found to handle combining rainwater and tap water. I'm going to try this exact same thing, but where would you add a timer to this? right after they Y where the two water sources come together? I don't mind manually switching from the rainwater tank when it runs out, but i don't want to have to go out and turn things on and off all time.
Very well illustrated -- meticulously explained -- thank you for your efforts !!!
I'm glad you found it helpful. Thank you for watching!
Great video! I just moved to a 1 acre property, and I wanted a way to supply water by rain barrels and house water. Your video is clear and straightforward.
Your garden is a wow
I appreciate it! Thanks for watching!
I did all of my drip irrigation with Drip Depot parts too. I’ve purchased some extra parts from other brands on Amazon and they are extremely inferior to Drip Depot, despite being around the same price!
Drip irrigation is such a game changer. Having a timer is crucial too. Everything gets watered evenly early in the morning right before the sun comes up, which is especially important in the scorching hot summers my area sees.
Great video as usual!
Excellent to hear. I knew I made the right choice going with Drip Depot. I can't wait to finish my setup. I must've spent 2 hours today fertilizing my garden with 5 gallon buckets and 1.5 gallon watering cans. I hope to never have to do this again and just feed everything through my rain barrels.
@@TheMillennialGardener did feeding fert from the rain barrels work out as you expected throughout the season?
At which point in your system did you install the timer?
I've been using drip depot for a couple years now. I haven't had any issues with them (prices are among the best, too). FYI they make in-line mixers for both drip pressures and hose pressures if you want to do your fertilization in batches without putting stuff in your barrels. Just gotta make sure you have a backflow preventer when you use the hose bibs. Another heads-up, you'll have to clean that in-line filter very frequently. Any algae will clog it instantly.
Might be worth setting up your zone shutoffs in a way for you to connect an air compressor to blow out all the lines at the end of the season. I'll add a removable cap to the end of each of the mainlines (faster to get the water out that way) and then once the mainline is cleared, you can go section by section and get all of the emitters cleared out. The more stuff you have in parallel without individual shutoffs, the more of a pain it can be to drain at the end of the season. I've gravity drained part of our mainlines before, but I doubt that does anything for your 1/8" mainline to the emitters or any of your dripline.
I totally need to get my shutoffs hidden in valve boxes, right now they're just under mulch and marked with some rocks. I don't think I'm quite ready to connect our rainbarrels to the drip irrigation yet. I'm fairly certain our runs are too long to just run off of gravity feed. For the rainwater, I think I'm going to just get a lift-pump and use them to hand water / fertilize with an inline injector or siphon.
I will probably look into an in-line fertilizing option later down the road. I’m not concerned about the lines freezing because it only freezes at night here, so the drain valve I installed should be sufficient. It rains a lot here, so my rain barrels will be flushed out a lot. It should help keep algae down, but on the other hand, using the barrels to mix fertilizer could cause a bloom. It’ll be a lot of experimenting.
Right on! Adding drip irrigation to my raised beds last year did amazing things. I used Drip Depot as well and I'm very happy.
That's good to know. So far, the fittings seem nice. I hope to be finishing up this month with the build.
Thank you for this. I made the mistake of deploying a drip tube with a minimum PSI requirement so gravity-fed will not even drip slowly from my barrels. I may have to reinvent in the future once I get significant barrels collected.
You're like the ChrisFix of gardening!! This playlist is perfect. Subbed 👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you! I tried to place everything in one place so it's all spelled out in chronological order.
Thank you! I have my rain barrels and been planing to add a drip irrigation system. I wanted to use the home irrigation system and house line, but was concerned about using the unclean rain water. I was not aware of the filter. You are the man. Thank you for the detailed video as always.
I'm glad it could help you. You will need to clean the filter regularly. Thank you for watching!
@@TheMillennialGardener Your educational and informative videos have positively influenced my garden. On a new issue, I have begun to do research but have not found solid answers yet. Something is eating some of my fig tree leaves, leaving little left. I have tried to inspect the leaves like I would with tomatoes and other plants but cannot find the insect. With your experience with fig trees, I would be grateful for any suggestions. I wish I could send you an image. Thank you, Northern VA
You did a very good job explaining this. Can you do one using the water pump. I like how you did your step-by-step illustration
Tie one end of the distribution tubing to a tree, slowly back from the tree allowing the tubing to gently and slowly untwist. In coiled form, it is twisted and will kink 100% of the time, guaranteed. It is this twist that creates the condition of kinking, mostly.
Nice addition with the water barrels! Wish we could use them but doesn't rain here enough. Permaloc fitting are the best. (PSI Requirements is 25psi for tube, 15psi for tape.) For my setup I used drip tube for bushes,trees and drip tape for long runs in the vegetable garden. I used an auto flush valve to automatically drain the line after each watering (a little overkill). Also installed a controller so I could separate my zones to control the water each zone gets and so I can water early in the morning in order to prevent evaporation.
I would argue that the areas where it doesn't rain a lot are the areas you want rain barrels the most. Every drop becomes precious. The idea behind the rain barrels isn't just to collect water, though. They're also tanks to mix fertilizer and distribute the fertilized solution evenly.
@@TheMillennialGardener Really great point. I haven't hooked up inline fertilization to my irrigation setup yet (future update) however I'm considering my options. Appreciate the feedback and all your great videos, cheers!
Thanks. Good intro to gravity fed irrigation. Going to be using some of your ideas.
EXCELLENT VIDEO….well explained…DALE-rules!
I have a couple fish tanks that I use to water my plants. I am totally going to do this and just dump the weekly waste water into the barrel!
That could possibly be good fertilizer! 😄
Fabulous! Thanks for this series! I'm looking forward to going shopping for a system/parts!
Beautiful garden
Thank you! I appreciate that.
Excellent Investment.This will save you A LOT of time.Will it be difficult to address plants with different water requirements? A Homogeneous dose of water to all and then hand/hose water to those plants needing more water.I suppose you will turn off system on days when there has been ample Rain...Dale you are a Handsome Sausage !
I am installing shut-off valves on each raised bed, so I will be able to control what fertilizer goes where. Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, etc. can all share the same fertilizer, but I certainly wouldn't want to feed my fruiting vegetables with the higher nitrogen mix I make for my greens. That would be a disaster for fruit. The shut-off valves are only around $3-4 a piece, so I made sure to get one for every single bed. It's a lot of work installing, but like you said, it'll save so much time, and I only need to do it once.
If we are what we eat, that explains why Dale is a giant sausage 😅
Another great 👍🏻 video 👍🏻!
Thanks for watching!
Great video. That answers my question about gravity feed!
If you found this video helpful, please "Like" and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 Three Tips For Installing Drip Irrigation
2:40 Preparing The Main Line Distribution Tubing
2:57 Installing A Pressure Regulator On A House Spigot
3:58 Installing A House Line Leader Hose
4:25 Installing A Sediment Filter On A Rain Barrel System
5:39 Installing A Leader Hose From Rain Barrels
5:58 Joining A House Line And Rain Barrel To One Distribution Line
8:04 How To Install Drip Irrigation Fittings To Distribution Tubing
8:25 Installing Drip Irrigation To Three Irrigation Zones
11:16 Installing A Diverter Valve To Winterize Drip Irrigation Lines
11:31 Installing A Valve Box To Improve Aesthetics
11:50 Burying The Drip Irrigation Distribution Line
15:13 Adventures With Dale
Yes, I'm going with drip depot too. Good tips!
sometimes I wonder if you could use the house water pressure to siphon the rain barrel water. I wonder if that is easy to setup with as high of a flow as possible for the rain barrel, probably needs to be a sealed system because the house water would pressurize whatever you are syphoning.
Excellent video, I did exactly the same concept a few years ago, I even used drip depot. They usually have a store wide sale in late winter.
I missed the boat on any sales, unfortunately, but I'm happy with my purchase. So far, it's a MAJOR time saver. Thanks for watching!
Cheers mate, great presentation and clear explanation. I will be using ideas.
Thank you! Glad you found it helpful.
Thank you for the very helpful video! I'm about to build my own rain barrel/house connection drip system. I'm wondering if you considered adding any automation to it and whether you had ideas for check valves. I purchased a RainPoint Bluetooth hose water timer that I will connect at the house and then continue with the same house line leader hose setup. This should automate the drip irrigation from the house. However, I can't add a second hose timer to the rain barrel because there is not enough pressure for it to function. I've been looking at some manual timers for the rain barrel connection. My thought process is this...the system should use rainwater first, then there is a soil sensor that connects to the Bluetooth hose timer on the house. If the rain barrel is empty and the soil is still dry, then the house water should kick in. The problem I see is how do I prevent the rain barrel from filling up with house water. I would need some sort of check valve, or I'll have to manually switch the water source at the Y fitting. Any thoughts?
Did you figure it out?
You sir are awesome 🎉
Im surprised youtube hasnt taken down your video because you said you cant put male ends together. Lol, seriously good video, thanks for sharing your experience. We have used Drip Depot and have been happy too.
Love all your videos!!! I noticed on the website the kits come with different diameter hoses. Would you recommend keeping all the sizes the same, or leave it like it comes in the kit. My setup is a lot like yours, will be fed from rain barrels, house line, going into ground plants as well as containers and raised beds. Thank you!!
I hope I can do this!
You definitely can! The work itself is very simple. It's all in the planning. Lay out the equipment you need beforehand, measure twice before you cut and take your time. It can be a fun weekend project.
Good engineering!
Thanks!
Wowww... Really good information! Thank you!!
Thanks for watching!
Great Video! Im curious what kind of dripping outlet are you going to install on your fig trees, how many gallons per hour and so on ? And thank you so much for your informational videos !
Thank you. I'll probably install 0.5 gal/hr drippers to the 5 gallon paint buckets and 1 gal/hr drippers to the large, black containers. That should make things evenly distributed per volume.
Best video eve!!!!
Glad you think so! Thank you for watching!
I'm inspired, thank you!
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Love it thanks!
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thanks for making this!
You're welcome!
Great! Looking forward to learn!
Thank you. It's a big undertaking on this scale, but it'll be so worth it. On smaller gardens, it's actually fun to cut and poke the lines 😄
I love those shoes. What kind are they? Also I am not the soaker hose used in the video. Can you point me in the right direction?
How do you feel about burying the main line from the spigot/ rain barrel to the garden? That way you don’t have to worry about cutting the main line?
I added this comment before I saw the whole video oops 😂
I’ve used a RainPoint WiFi water timer in the past. Is there one you recommend? I would have thought that you would have connected the house water to a timer.
would be nice if you had links to your other two in this series.
Was wondering how to control drip rate for container gardening.
Gravity fed does NOT work with drippers.
I have a playlist with the videos on it here: czcams.com/play/PL1gY7BoYBGIHHHsx0JPcYgD4xXzA96usL.html
For gravity feed to work with drippers, you would need a lot of head pressure, so your water source would have to be pretty high. I plan on adding a water transfer pump to my rain barrel to solve this problem.
Awesome video, thank you! Given the size of your garden have you found the 1/2” main mine to be adequate?
Yes. It's more than enough to irrigate my entire garden and my entire container garden simultaneously. 1/2 tubing can move quite a bit of water.
New to gardening- I have a garden bed perhaps 20m long. Will water drain from one end (tank) to the other if there are holes drilled every now and again in the plastic pipe (how to know if there be enough pressure?). If water just goes into the holes closest to the tank and doesn't reach the other end, doesn't meet my purpose
Love your videos. Thanks for all the information. Question - what is the fabric you use on the ground around all your raised beds? I am looking for something strong enough to walk on and last for several years.
I have just laid visqueen through out my planned garden area on both sides of my shed. Currently the visqueen is under all my raised beds, which I have not added soil to yet. I was wondering, if you cut out the visqueen under your raised beds or maybe just poked a few holds in the visqueen, to let water drain?
Yeah hello... I'm interested in finding those rain barrels but when I go to your store all I see is clothes where do I find them?
Very good video. It helps us gardener #LoveAndThrive
Thanks for watching!
Odd question. could you run the house water hose into the rain barrel and attach itto a toilet flapper(?) if that's what it's called.... When the water in the rain barrel gets low, it would automatically fill up a bit. Or would that not work? (just spitballin' here. I loved your video.
I've just bought the errigation kit last night. I wish I watch your vedio sooner. How to call this three way splitter? I couldn't find it in drip depot. Great vedio! Thanks so much!
It is Part 1202, Irritec Perma-Loc Tubing Cross - Size : 1/2". You will have to purchase three Part #1191 Irritec Perma-Loc Tubing Coupling Valve - Size : 1/2" as well, so you can turn it on and off.
@@TheMillennialGardener Got it. Thank you so much! Really appreciate it!
Did your white madeira or del San Juame gran split at all last year?
My White Madeira was split resistant. Heavy rains would still damage the fruit, but it wouldn't split in half like a Black Madeira or I-258, which explode like a grenade. I did not get enough fruit on my DSJG the first season to really assess its split resistance. I'll need another season to figure that one out, but the fruits I did get were the best tasting figs I've had to date.
How are you handling your overflow. I also live in NC and many of our rains could fill the barrels in a very short period of time.
how well did the gravity do with the rain barrel? at the end you only tested out of one hose but could it supply water to the entire zone? thank you.
I looked in your store for the T filter you showed plus searched for it and couldn’t find one. QUESTION: Would you please provide a link to where you purchased this. Thank you. Hopefully I will hear from you soon as I plan on installing a rain barrel drip irrigation system too. You have inspired me!
The T-filter is sold through Drip Depot, and isn't listed on my Amazon Store. All the specific irrigation parts were purchased through Drip Depot. The only items linked on my Amazon Storefront are the generic parts (hose connectors, hole punch, tubing cutters, etc.). You will have to go to Drip Depot's website and custom build your application. They have tons of parts.
@@TheMillennialGardener Thanks a lot.
I can’t find the link To your A store to get these parts and pieces. Such a great vid 👍🏻🇨🇦
Thanks! It is linked in the video description. Simply expand the video description and you’ll find the link.
Was the 25 PSI regulator okay in the end or did you have to go lower?
You could use soaker hoses.
I do not like soaker hoses. Almost all the water comes out of the first few feet, and the remaining hose produces almost no drip effect at all. I think they're a horrible invention, and I never use them as a result. I recommend drip tape instead. It is much more effective and 10% of the cost.
At around 2:22 you recommend a tube cutter/hole punch tool. I'd like to buy one if you could please mention the brand and where it can be purchased? Thanks so much for a terrific video!
This tool is linked in my Amazon Storefront. Simply follow the link in the video description, and go to the "Irrigation And Rain Barrels" list.
Do you leave it all outside during the winter or disconnect it all and store it inside?
Looks awesome. But, where are your dogs.🤷♂️
So that’s enough pressure on the rain barrel to drip into the garden?
Any trouble with freezing water in the lines during winter? Do you bother blowing it out? I live in a similar climate
How you have city water or well you need a 300 gallon or less roll f rain water
How would you use a pump on this system and which one would you use.
A pump is not necessary when fed by the house line, because the water main in the street (or your well if you have one) is already pressurized. When fed by the rain barrels, I don't need a pump, because I use a gravity feed shown here: czcams.com/video/NmAHq447XkY/video.html
If you want to use rain barrels, but you don't want to elevate them, you're going to have to install a pump somewhere after the rain barrel. That will be up to you, because every system will be different.
Hi. Could you help me to understand drip irrigation system without rain barrel. I could not figure it out. We only have raised bed and containers. Please help. Thank you.
I have videos on how to set up any type of drip irrigation here: czcams.com/play/PL1gY7BoYBGIHHHsx0JPcYgD4xXzA96usL.html
Any advice on where to install timers?
Hello, Very helpful video. What size of leader irrigation hose did you use?
Thank you. The exact product is linked in my Amazon Storefront in the video description in my Drip Irrigation list.
Hi Iam going to use a timer where I connect the timer?
Wherever you want as long as it's before the drippers. I assume it's just a time-controlled solenoid, so place it where you need it.
I’m curious to see if any of the rain barrel water makes it up to your raised beds.
Me, too. If not, I'll install a transfer pump.
Where did you buy the cutter?
How would you do multiple rain barrels located farther away from the water source.
I have a guide on setting up the rain barrels here: czcams.com/video/szMxYIKDXmU/video.html
As long as the rain barrels are at a higher elevation than the drip lines, the water will make it.
You kind of look like Eddie Alvarez
How do you prevent the water in the barrels from going bad, algae or other stuff?
By emptying them regularly. Algae grows because the water sits. You have to dump them constantly, and the best way to do this is to irrigate.
You get enough water pressure from the rain barrel? How high is your barrel off the ground?
It is enough to make it to the beds, but I don’t think it’ll be enough to make a 90 degree turn and irrigate. I think I will have to add a transfer pump.
Are your raised sitting over landscape fabric? What is your view about that vs. on bare ground?
No. The raised beds are built out of 2x8's, which have a depth of 7-1/4 inches. The 7 inches of soil is enough to suffocate anything on the ground, so there is no need to have landscape fabric under the beds. I use weed barrier in the walkways as permanent weed suppression. You can set your raised beds on bare ground no problem with no fabric or barrier underneath, as long as you don't have a mole or vole problem. If that's the case, it isn't a bad idea to staple hardware cloth to the underside of the bed so nothing can burrow in, but plants can still get their roots through hardware cloth.
If you are going to place the raised beds directly on top of a lawn and you want peace of mind, mow the lawn as close as your mower can handle, then just toss some cardboard boxes on the ground before filling the bed. The cardboard boxes will suffocate any lawn underneath and naturally biodegrade.
@@TheMillennialGardener Thank you very much. I was more concerned about slugs.
I want to do this but I'm concerned the water pressure from the barrels won't be high enough to get to the furthest parts of the drip system. How is yours doing?
If you are running drip irrigation to a garden from a rain barrel, it will likely need a water transfer pump integrated. For a gravity fed system to work, the barrels need to either be right next to the garden, the garden needs to be small, or the water tank needs to be very high up. For a barrel and garden setup like mine, it won't be possible to feed the garden via the rain barrels without a transfer pump.
@@TheMillennialGardener that was kinda what I was thinking.. thanks so much for your help!
I would like to buy all the material for my drip irrigation System! But I want to know if you have any chart with the name of material and the measure of each one? Thank you!
One barrel full lasts about 4 hours, what if it does not rain for 5 days? You need 20 barrels of water to keep watering your plants.
I hooked my system up to both the rain barrel and the outside spigot. If my rain barrels empty, I'll simply use the house line.
What size is your main distribution line? Sorry if I missed it!
1/2 inch.
Could you add your Amazon store link to your title please? I can't find it.
The storefront link is in the video description. It's the first link under the Table of Contents.
Drip Depot is finicky with shipping, Hoss tools has the same things.
They shipped mine very quickly, and it was a pretty big order. They were really fast. I was satisfied.
Great video, new sub so leaving a comment to make sure it sticks. Will swing by with my other channel later too.
Thanks for subscribing! I appreciate it.
Perhaps you can fill plastic box with gravel too keep slithering creatures out
I have a bag of pea gravel I'll probably dump in.
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