How to Install Drip Irrigation in Raised Garden Beds (Using Drip Tape)
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- čas přidán 16. 02. 2022
- Drip irrigation saves time, energy, money and water! Follow along and learn how to set up drip irrigation for multiple raised garden beds. Our new automated raised bed drip irrigation system utilizes drip tape, but the skills you’ll learn today can easily be applied to other types of drip emitters too. This video will walk you through everything you need to know - from supplies to the step-by-step process - to feel confident to set up a similar raised bed drip irrigation system of your own.
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Written article with even more detail, FAQ, and plenty of photos:
homesteadandchill.com/install...
Learn how to connect drip irrigation straight to a hose bib or faucet here:
• How to Connect Drip Ir...
SUPPLIES:
1/2" irrigation tubing, available in 50 to 1000 ft rolls:
aff.dripdepot.com/aff/idevaff...
PermaLoc Adapter (with on/off valve) to connect 3/4" PVC pipe thread to 1/2" drip tubing (option for 1/2" pipe size available under same link) :
aff.dripdepot.com/aff/idevaff...
15 PSI pressure regulator (made for 3/4" pipe thread): aff.dripdepot.com/aff/idevaff...
1/2" Perma-loc elbows: aff.dripdepot.com/aff/idevaff...
Drip tape (we chose 15 mil thickness, with .25 gph emitters every 6 inches. 0.5 gph would be great too!): aff.dripdepot.com/aff/idevaff...
Barbed adapters (3.6 mm barbs, to connect 5/8" drip tape to 1/2" tubing header):
aff.dripdepot.com/aff/idevaff...
Drip Tape end closure clips: aff.dripdepot.com/aff/idevaff...
Figure 8 end clamps for 1/2" tubing: aff.dripdepot.com/aff/idevaff...
Hand hole punch tool: www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y5MV6CP?...
Landscape staples: www.amazon.com/dp/B01EWH0VWS?...
Hose bib timer: www.amazon.com/dp/B008VDULGG?...
Hunter Controllers for hard-piped systems: aff.dripdepot.com/aff/idevaff...
4-in-1 faucet adapter (used to connect drip to a hose bib or end of garden hose): www.amazon.com/dp/B076C7G7NF?...
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I’ve been looking all over CZcams for a video just like this and it’s super hard to find. This was the best video yet! Keep them coming!
Glad to hear you enjoyed it and thanks for watching.
I watch a lot of instructional videos on CZcams. Your approach is in the top 5%. You're so clear and concise. The visuals are very useful. The narrative is tight and well organized. No phony attempts to be "entertaining". Thank you.
Thank you so much for the kind words, it is very much appreciated and we are so glad you found our content and approach so helpful.
As stated by another subscriber, "this is the most helpful drip irrigation introduction video for beginners"! Thank you for you videos on raised bed gardens.
Thank you so much and glad to hear you found it so helpful!
This is the most helpful drip irrigation introduction video for beginners. Especially for those of us using your raised bed design. Thank you so much for putting all the links to the products in the description!
Thank you for the positive feedback!
I have watched a lot of irritation videos, by far this was the most informative and knowledgeable. Know I will be able to do this on my own THANKS!
Thank you for the wonderful compliment, and for tuning in! Happy growing
This is hands down the most easily understood irrigation video I have seen to date. I have my supplies ordered and am ready to get going!😁Thank you!
That's great to hear! Good luck on getting your system set up and have fun growing!
Great video, really well done! I love that you provided the tool set, the materials, the spec for the materials separate from the actual execution. Clear and concise with post installation maintenance. I also appreciate the sources for materials and tools. I think I can take on this DYI project.
That is great to hear and good luck on your project!
Clearly and pedagogically explained, with good visuals. Thanks.
Excellent tutorial on installing drip irrigation. Thank you for sharing!
Finally somebody made an easy explanation of how to use tape drip and the equipment needed for it. Thanks a million. Definite will do in the fall. Now here in central Florida is super hot and humid.
Glad to hear you found it so helpful! Good luck on setting up your system come fall.
This is literally the best timing. We raised funds last year for the community garden I help at and we've been talking about using the money for drip irrigation. I had no clue where to start. Thank you!
That's amazing! This will be an incredible addition to that space. Thanks for helping your community GROW! :)
Very well done! You are building my dream version of raised beds. Mine are a bit less functional. Your CZcams is going to help me make watering way easier! This is the first time I've seen a local person on their channel. I've driven up and down your road a million times but the next time I'll wave as I drive by!
Thank you so much for the kind words and we are glad that hopefully this helps make watering your garden easier. We will keep an eye out for you next time you drive by and we'll be waving right back.
Great vid and appreciate how thorough you were with the steps 😊
Thanks Deanna & Aaron! Always clear and detailed information from you guys. I’m redoing my drip and this came at the perfect time. Thanks so much!!! 🌱♥️
Thanks so much and good luck on your drip irrigation project!
As always, you make it look so easy! The tutorial should take a lot of the guesswork out of my project and it answered all my questions. Thank you so much for sharing!
Thanks Stacy. It isn't nearly as difficult as you might imagine, especially once you get your feet wet. Best of luck!
Beautiful garden! I just found the channel today and am very impressed by the thorough explanation and video quality. Keep up the great work.
Great explanation of why you chose drip tape.
Your closed captioning is excellent! Thanks for the extra help.
One of the best drip irrigations I have seen. Excellent discussion on pressure regulation. First one that mentions what to do at the end of the season. Well thought out video. Thanks.
Thank you! I'm happy to hear you appreciate my attention to detail. Happy growing!
Brilliant Tutorials on raised garden beds and drips irrigation system.
Super helpful video as I am just starting a new raised garden bed that is too large to water by hand. Exactly the info I was looking for, even though this video is a year old its relevant to me now so thank you:)
This was hugely informative. I feel inspired to give drip tape a try.
Best irrigation video ever! 👍👍Thank-you!
Why thank YOU!
Thank you for making this video. I am a new gardener and you have no idea how this video is helping me🥰
Wow! This all looks so classy, which I love! I just put in irrigation this year am already irritated that I can't change it or move things the way I want. I didn't know they made fittings you could unscrew! Now I gotta switch it all to those. :) Thank you!
Hi Jenn, congrats on getting your irrigation set up and sorry to hear you have to change some things around. We have found that having adapters and parts that can be changed out makes it much easier for future repairs and changes. Good luck!
You are incredible! The last 2 videos are outstanding & so helpful! Gave me so many valuable things that I need to have in my raised bed garden. I do need to have a taller bed, but I can put rock or preferably something that will eventually turn into a compost to take up some volume of the bigger bed.
Glad you found the video helpful, if you have logs, branches, leaves, etc. on hand, you can do a semi hugelkultur method to take up extra space in a deep bed.
Wonderful video. You make it look so simple. Many thanks, great job.
Thank you for throughly explaining! So many videos that are not clear. Yours is absolutely the best!!
Thank you so much for the kind words and good luck on your irrigation project!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!! I will be applying a lot of the same techniques for the raised beds I just built. But you sold me specifically on the elevated psi being sent to the beds before further pressure reduction, as well as a valve at each bed to throttle the water up or down for watering adjustments. I was planning on installing a blow-out at each bed to get the water out of the lines, ( with the assist of compressed air), but again agree with you that it might be better to disconnect and hang them up in a more controlled environment for the winter. Again, thanks!!!
Glad to hear it was helpful and good luck on setting up your irrigation system.
Thank you so much for this video, it is exactly what I needed! You are an excellent teacher.
Thank you so much! I appreciate your kind and supportive words!
Excellent demonstration. Thank You.
Awesome video! Clear, thorough, knowledgeable, and very easy to follow for both experienced and novice gardeners. Well done. I’ll be sharing this with everyone I know.
Thank you so much, that's very kind of you!
Thank you for this thorough video. So helpful!
Fantastic video…very thorough with excellent information and explanations. Thank you!!
Impressive and thoroughly explained 👏
Incredibly helpful. We plan to start our garden in the spring and this made it very clear, step by step. Thank you.
That's great to hear and good luck on your project, have fun growing!
I am so happy I found your channel before I attempted to run irrigation on my beds. I would have wasted so much time and money not knowing what I’m doing lol. I’ll be referencing this video when I do. Thank you in advance! Your garden is massive and so beautiful 😍
Glad you found the video and good luck on getting irrigation set up in your raised beds!
Thanks so much for this video it was a big help.
Excellent video! Very informative and presentation was well done.
Great video!
Everything looks well organized and its visually pleasing.
Thank you Pier, hope you found the video helpful.
OMG there's a tool to make the holes in the tubing! My fingers still hurt from last fall redoing all the garden boxes! Thanks for another great video.
Oh noooo, you didn't! You poor thing! Thanks for the chuckle this morning. The more we know! :) Thanks for watching too!
Excellently explained everything
I really appreciate you taking the time to explain it like im 5! I’ve been trying to upgrade my system and I will definitely steal some ideas from this video.
Lol! Well, we teach a lot of newbies who aren't familiar with water systems or related terminology, so I like to break it down to the very basics. I am glad the information was helpful for you!
Super clean install👍 If you live in a colder climate like I do, you could always blow out the lines before the 1st freeze. Very nice.
Thanks for the recommendation for cold climate gardeners.
That is a really nice setup!
very nice system and explained very well!
Very good video, so easily understandable and informative.
Thank you very much for the overview of your irrigation setup, greatly helped us out!
Great to hear it was so helpful, have fun growing!
I’ve just recently discovered you and am so impressed! You’re a fabulous teacher!
Thank you so much for the kind words!
Great video! The information is presented expertly and easy to understand. I learned a ton and can't wait to get started.
Thank you so much for the kind words and good luck on setting up your irrigation system!
Good job, very nice looking.
Fabulous, A+ - topnotch video! Thank you!
Thanks so much for watching!
Thank u so much. Love your videos.
You're very welcome, and thank you right back!
Thank you for informative video and links ! Needed this !
You are very welcome and that is great to hear, good luck!
Well explained thanks from Mozambique 🥰 Africa
Great tutorial. Thanks. I am just about to do one for my sister, so this has been very helpful. And by the way, 😳 can I just say Wow!! You garden is gorgeous!!
Thank you so much and good luck on getting your sisters drip irrigation system set up!
Great tutorial!
Great Job !! Learned a lot Need to get busy and installing drip systems to our raised beds.
Thanks so much and good luck on getting your garden set up with drip irrigation!
Outstanding video - gave me so many ideas, and really explained (demonstrated) some of the things that might otherwise have seemed daunting.
Great to hear you found the video so helpful, hopefully you are now prepared to do some irrigation work yourself.
GREAT VIDEO. Thank you
EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT and informative video!!! THANK YOU!
So glad you found it informational!
Great video👍🇨🇦
Great video…thanks! I love your new set up. Mine will not go as fast since we moved in right before winter & no longer have the 365 sun…
🇺🇸. Another fantastic video!! 🙏🏻. I’m a new Subscriber! Keep ‘em coming!
very helpful video! thank you so much
So glad you found it helpful!
Красота, Wonderfull !
I’m so glad I found your videos. We are setting up irrigation in our newly installed raided beds and this has been the best how to video I’ve found. I’ve already started watching your other videos too and I’m a big fan. Thank you so much!
That's great to hear and we think you will enjoy the ease and efficiency of using drip tape to water your raised beds, good luck with your install!
Great tutorial! I'm literally copying everything you are doing lol. I have not moved into the new house just yet but I'm designing my outdoor space now. I've modified some of my plans because of your designs. I can't thank you enough, now I don't have to reinvent the wheel!
That is so great to hear and good luck with your new home and garden!
You've done us a service. Thank you.
Glad to hear it was helpful for you, good luck!
You are awesome 👌
Just discovered your video, Very good info. As a suggestion you can eliminate the PVC primer when using "Blue Glue." Most PVC glue is clear. The reason your glue is blue is because it contains its own primer. You can save time and money.
Thank you!
Great info. Thanks. I think I'll try the drip tape. The new boxes looked awesome. I did notice, in the latter part of the video, pressure treated wood used with the narrow and older boxes. Probably not a good idea, even if it was just used to tie the corrugated steel panels together. It wears off and mixes with the soils.
Thank you so much and hopefully drip tape irrigation works out well for you. In regards to the other raised beds with pressure treated wood and corrugated steel, the previous owners were the ones who built them or had them built, we just inherited them. We haven't had the time nor the energy to replace them just yet but may do so in the future.
Looks neat and competent. My hesitation is at the end of season if you want to refresh and turn the soil over it gets in the way and you have to disturb it and replace in back in place every year or season you turn the soil. I like how they work but will stick with hose and watering can for now as my beds are not large nor numberous. Your installation is really great looking.
We don't turn over our soil, we cut out our plants at the soil line and leave their roots in place to decompose and turn into organic matter. To amend our soil in between seasons, we sprinkle amendments over the top of the soil, lightly scratch it into the surface, add more compost on top for added mulch and we are good to go.
Excellent, informative vid.
Thanks much for your efforts in making it available.. d^)
I love your cat.🥰
Nice irrigation systen
I did same layout of drip system to tops of my beds.
Mine though are 9” drip spacing with 9” separation per row within bed. Mine are 1g per hour emitter in loamy soil base with compost built above. Testing showed great spread of water horizontally and vertically.
Soil really dictates rate and spacing.
I really enjoyed the video , I want to install a drip system like yours , but my water supply Is rather far from my raised beds . I would need to use a raised platform with 50 gal water barrels on them to supply my water, my garden is about 20’ x 24’ , I am just concern about the height of the platform to make sure that all my plants get water . Would you have any idea on how high the platform need to be for this to work . Thanks for any ideas or improvements to my system to make it work . Thank you JimE.
One more thing. The Senninger Pressure regulator valve you showed in your tutorial was installed backwards. The white end is the outlet and the black end iconnects to the source. Thanks again for a great tutorial.
I'm so glad I found you on youtube! Many vids on creating raised garden beds, but you are the first that I found that discussed setting up drip irrigation..
Question: what if I bury the drip tube into the bed? Say 6" I'm in NJ, this will save me having to take it out for the winter and for root veggies it might be better?
I am not sure if burying the drip tape only 6" is enough for a NJ winter. I believe the best practice for any drip irrigation system in cold climates is to clear all the tubing and valves of water before freezing weather hits, removing the irrigation system from the garden and storing them indoors through the winter will also extend the life of your irrigation system.
Our drip tape is usually under an inch or so of mulch but it was left uncovered to illustrate the system and set up for this video.
What do you use for back flow prevention? And doesn’t it need to be above the level of the emitters
Fantastic video and somehow the algorithm figured it out because CZcams put your video in my feed for the first time. Make more :-}
Thanks for watching, we will try and keep the videos coming. We focus mainly on our website and sadly only have so much time in a day.
@@HomesteadandChill As a voracious CZcams user I can certifiably guarantee you and yours can make some money here. ;-)
@@Wakeywhodat Thank you, posting more here is definitely on our "need to do more" list. Thanks again!
Just sub to your channel. Your garden areas are beautiful!!
Thank you for the detailed explanations to building your raised beds and irrigation. I am getting ready to start my greenhouse and looking for this exact information on the irrigation and raised beds!! If you don't mind me asking where is it you live that it doesn't get freezing temps? I live in Central Oregon where we get down to single digits in the winter. Thanks again for the information!!
Hi there, so glad you found us and it's great to hear that you are finding our content helpful. We do get freezing conditions during the winter but usually not too bad. We live on the Central Coast of California, hardiness zone 9b.
@@HomesteadandChill Oh ok that makes sense. Better growing opportunities there!!
Look forward to viewing more of your videos. Thank you again for such great content!!
Helpful video! If we m using 1/2” drip line from the faucet, is there a 15 psi regulator for 1/2” in, 1/2” out?
You only need the 15 psi regulator if you are using drip tape in your beds. If you are using standard 1/2" drip tubing in your beds, you only need a 25 psi pressure reducer.
We have found that you may need to use adapters to convert from 1/2" to 3/4" before converting back to 1/2". For more in depth information and other alterations you can make, check out our article on the topic:
homesteadandchill.com/install-drip-irrigation-raised-beds/
This is a very helpful video, thank you. I have a question. What is the purpose of the metal barrier?
That is metal edging that we used to outline our garden to delineate the space and create a border for our perennial plants that are planted along the fence line.
Someone at a local nursery told me that pressure reducers need water flow or they may be damaged. Wondering if you heard anything like that and if so, would it be better to put the shutoff valve before the pressure reducer? Thx, and great video!
Bravo
Thank you so much!
Thanks for this video and the parts list.
I think the link for the "4-in-1 faucet adapter" is the same as the timer, if you could please fix that. Thanks!
Thank you, fixed it!
What type of system do you use if you have 7 feet deep flower beds with annual seeds and perennial plants on the ground that is slanted?
thanks alot for this video , can you help me where you bought solar power for this system please thank you.
Here is a link for Hunter controllers. We have the XC Hybrid 6-station controller, but they have a ton of different options!
aff.dripdepot.com/aff/idevaffiliate.php?id=351&url=239
Great video! My question is what size is the pvc that runs on the ground? The main water .?
The PVC is 3/4 inch.
Thank you very much for your you tube Chanel very educational I was eagerly wanted to know how to contact every thing you demonstrated . I hope you will have more Videos what you grow and the results! Thank you.
if you arepvc to the beds - could you not have the 40 psi pressure reducer so you get better pressure in the longer runs - and then put the reducers on whereever you go to drip?
We do have PVC running to each bed itself all coming off a valve which has a 40 psi regulator. Then in each be we have a 15 psi regulator to reduce the water pressure at each bed so it meets the psi requirements for our specific drip tape that we used.
Awesome job. I really enjoyed watching several of your videos. Very informative and practical. Thank you for sharing the info.
I’ve a small favor to ask you, could you please give me the link for purchasing the hard Redwood for the raise beds? I’m sure you must have listened in one of your videos, but I couldn’t find it. Thanks 🙏
Hello Musashi, we purchase heart redwood at The Home Depot as that is where it is most accessible for us.
New subscriber. Such a great video. Gave me the confidence to jump in to putting in a full irrigation system. Appreciate the links. Questions: No plumbers tape is needed for the threaded fittings. Just hand tightening seals it well enough?
That is great to hear and no, we didn't use plumbers tape on any of the fittings and they do not leak. Good luck!
@@HomesteadandChillThanks for taking the time to respond. Much appreciated.
@@dmrouls1 Absolutely, good luck on your project!
Well well i started with your enormous story about the worms but have been bing watching you guys ever since! Great videos and very explanatory too! Question, is it not better to place the drip tape face down? So there is less evaporating ?
Thank you so much for the kind words and we hope you have found our videos helpful! It is recommended to place the drip tape with the emitters facing upwards but if you use the drip tape that we link in the caption, you can then cover it with mulch. We have the drip tape uncovered in the video for visual purposes but we try and keep them covered with mulch for the most part.
Fantastic job of covering drip irrigation. However, you have missed a link in your supplies: the Perma-Loc shutoff valve that you use right after the 15 psi reducer.
Thanks for watching, the item is the second one listed, it is the adapter that connects PVC to drip tubing and has a shut off valve.
very comprehensive --- thank you. Are there any concerns about the pipe glue or is that something that is used everywhere and is okay.
The PVC glue we use is made for drinking water systems so it is fine to use.
@@HomesteadandChill Ty for your response and i know i wll be coming back to this vid to see how i can do mine as well.
... for a no dig gardening method, can compost be put over the tubes when it is replenished at the end of the growing season ...? ...
Yes, we cut out our vegetables at the soil line and leave the roots in place. Shortly after doing this video, we fully covered the drip tape with compost, as it will last longer not being exposed to direct sun. This drip tape is said to let water out, but not allow dirt in.