Do These Drip Irrigation Tips And NEVER Water Your Garden Again!
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- Are you tired of spending hours watering your garden? Automating watering with drip irrigation is the solution, but setup can be intimidating. After years installing and operating drip irrigation systems, I've learned many do's and don'ts, and I share my top 4 drip irrigation tips with you. Do these drip irrigation tips and never water your garden again!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Why Drip Irrigation Is Better Than Overhead Watering
2:53 Tip #1: System Pressure Regulation
4:14 Tip #2: Dripper Flow Rates
6:39 Tip #3: Installing Shut-off Valves
9:16 Tip #4: Fertilizing Through Drip Lines
13:20 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 Why Drip Irrigation Is Better Than Overhead Watering
2:53 Tip #1: System Pressure Regulation
4:14 Tip #2: Dripper Flow Rates
6:39 Tip #3: Installing Shut-off Valves
9:16 Tip #4: Fertilizing Through Drip Lines
13:20 Adventures With Dale
I can't find your Amazon store.
I watched all of your drip irrigation videos at least 3 times. I ordered all my parts and finally got it installed to one of my raised beds. It was very easy and I will be installing to my containers next. Also, I will be installing a rain barrel system like yours also. Thank you so much for all the tutorials. You're amazing.
There are some nails that you can connect to the end you stick it in the dirt and the roots get bigger
Have you ever done a bucket system with dripper meters? It’s probably been done but it would make a good video.
Some idiots like myself build the perfect raised bed and where did they put it on the other end of the property where there’s no damn garden hose that will reach it lol OK yes I can buy garden hose and it would reach it but then I got to move the damn thing back-and-forth every time I wanna mow the damn lawn lol
Am I the only gardener that enjoys watering their garden? XD I see so many videos calling it annoying and this and that and im over here zenned out with headphones on talking to the basil LOL
No, you are not alone. I enjoy walking and looking the garden over at a leisurely pace.I hand water. I like to sing or listen to audio books while I water. If I'm where I'm using a hose I like to make rainbows😄
I found best to water is 5 am early morning and irrigation love watering it myself
I fill a one gallon jug with water and empty it around my plants . I wheat straw mulch and have few issues. The expense of a drip system added to other items the host of this site recommends is getting silly.
Yes lol
It depends how big your garden is and how much disease pressure you have. If you have 1,000 plants to water and you have horrific disease pressure, watering means hot torture and disease spread.
I've never considered watering a "waste of time". In fact visiting my garden is my therapy. With that being said, I absolutely love my drip irrigation. It has been a huge time saver and a garden saver for when I'm gone. For that alone I'll never go back to manual watering. I get to spend more time inspecting and enjoying the garden.
If you have enough plants it is 1000% a waste of time doing it manually
New subscriber from Indiana here! I must say, I love that you start every video with the date. That way when I watch some of your past videos I know exactly what time of year it was.
You put out the best videos in such an ‘understandable’ way! The best part is you actually show how to hook things up etc. instead of just talking. I’m SO glad you and Dale didn’t come any closer to that alligator…yikes!!
I moved to Texas and the summers are brutal here which made me decide to install a drip irrigation system. Thanks for the info, it helps as I’m still in the assembly phase. 😃
I love this channel ! I’ve learned so much and connected the dots from what I learned of the years. This is an invaluable resource 🙏🏼
I have been following you for about a couple years I’d guess. I truly enjoy your videos. You are very professional and personable and informative. Thank you for all your wonderful work.
You are such a good teacher! Thankyou so much for this.
Thank you for great tutorial, clear and very informative , all novice gardeners like me thanks you 👍🏽👏🏽❤️
Thank you for the video. My garden is in growing mode, so I'm researching how to install a drip irrigation system for next year. 👩🌾 I find all your videos very informative and helpful.
You convinced me to try this in my raised garden beds. Here is hoping it goes as well for me! Used your drip depot link 🎉
Thank You for this. I would love to get drip irrigation for my backyard garden, but don't know where to start, or what equipment I will need. There are so many different kits it is hard to figure out which one to go with. I'm going to watch your older videos as well. Keep up the great work!
I followed your irrigation videos closely last year and installed drip irrigation from drip depot last May. It was fabulous to have for my summer and fall. I'm excited to hook it back up for the season next week!
Hello Emily
As I want to spend less time watering, I am honestly considering using some form of passive irrigation. This video is great for giving me some ideas on what I might do. Thanks!
Love your style, organization and completeness of content. You are concise, which I appreciate. I've recommended you to some friends.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that!
Excellent tips on drip irrigation. I installed mine three years ago on my four raised bed garden, and it was the best thing I ever did. Really helps with the time-consuming watering chore as mentioned in the video. If you have a raised bed system, definitely consider drip irrigation to help you make a more consistent and fruitful. Well, done video!
Thank you so much! This is so timely! I've been wondering about the shut off valves, pressure release, and the fertilizer components! I've purchased both the fixed and the adjustable drips--now I will know to stick with the fixed ones!
I'm glad the video was helpful! Thank you so much for watching! I appreciate it.
This was a very useful and informative video, thanks for creating and sharing!
I appreciate the knowledge you just laid down . I am going to install my first drip irrigation system this year. Dale looked so serious that the alligator had no choice but to jump back in the water!😂
I'm glad it was helpful. You will be *very* happy with a drip irrigation system and wonder how you ever got by without one. Dale truly did not care about that gator. As a fellow sunbather, I'm guessing he understood the plight of the gator charging his batteries.
Good job, as always! My wife went to get a paper at an apartment we lived at in Tampa decades ago and a 9 footer was sunning between the pond and sidewalk. He was as scared as she was.
I totally agree about avoiding all of the different variable rate drippers and installing shut-off valves for each zone of the garden.
It makes life a lot easier! The small investment will be worth it. Thanks for watching!
Thank you sooo much for this series of videos!! Will be so helpful to me in SW Louisiana!
I love your videos. Everything is so well explained and your garden is an inspiration!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!
I have to agree with you Laura. Very informative video. I feel inspired to go out and get one set up. Cheers from Australia.
Thanks for all your videos brother. I’m 68 years old and doing my first garden as an old man. I’m doing complete container as I do not have the space for inground nor desire to fight weeds. Your tips are very helpful. I appreciate it.
OMG! YOU'RE A LIFE SAFER! THANK YOU!!! 😅
I've watched some of your installation videos before and I FINALLY decided to just go for it and started by going to the sprinkler store and just buying some basic odds and ends (I wouldn't have had a clue where to start if I hadn't watched your other videos). Now I at least have SOMETHING going and trying to think through everything a bit more. If I could've watched this video like 2 days ago, I could've avoided a few mistakes (I have like 50 adjustable drip heads I'll be changing out). The biggest help for me today is having links to all the equipment AND how to add FERTILIZER the system! I just can't find the time to get to all of my plants otherwise.
Now I need a fast hack on how to quickly add BONE MEAL to all my fruiting plants and trees! Especially after you recommend applying every other week... 😓
I got a summer job working in Irrigation this year, mostly doing lawns but I have done a few drip systems. The fixed rate drip nozzles are the way to go.
One greenhouse system I installed, the client wanted something very similar to those adjustable drip nozzles you showed.
(They were like mini fountains, spraying a 360 around themselves rather than the small spider leg streams of water)
We had to go back a week later and swap them out. They had the system running for 15 minutes per day and completely flooded everything.
Simple is best.
Great video as always 😊 Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and happy gardening 🌿🌱😊🤗
Thank you! I appreciate you watching!
I will be looking into rain barrels. Thanks for the tips!
They're really great. A very worthy investment, and it makes fertilizing so easy.
I purchased a system about 5 years ago and ever since,I’ve had enough regular rain that I haven’t really needed to install it yet. I do want to do a rain barrel system though because I have a steep barn roof that wastes a ton of run off water,plus I can mix fertilizer into it.
You are wealth of information, thank you! Great video
So easy to understand . Thank you very much .
You’ve done such a great job on your irrigation system! 👍 Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! 😊
Thank you! I really appreciate that! Anything to help people grow more food.
This is very useful video for me as iam also going to use gravity system and pressure regulator. This is 1 hectare land with banana and duriyan plants in Srilanka. Now digging holes for cultivation. Thank you very much
Just want to say thanks because you may be saving me a load of time, money, and effort. I was planning some wicking beds in a 50x50 sq/ft garden I'm currently building, but at the price per bed it was extremely costly. I unfortunately fell for the "don't" in your video. not only are they finicky, but the setup process was multiple days for a 10x20 sq/ft greenhouse. not because of a complicated process, but because after a while my hands just couldn't forced the small tube onto the barb fittings anymore (I'm 32 and live in South Jersey by the way).
Long story short, this video got me rethinking my plans moving forward and I thank you for this.
P.S.
Your video on the trash can composter also got me thinking about easier ways of composting...... Because turning compost sucks the fun out of the grand scheme of "gardening".
I've found that drip irrigation for container gardens is a no-brainer, must-do. For my in-ground beds I find it more trouble than it's worth for my rain climate, and I like the ritual/observation of watering the in-ground plants and paying attention to weekly rainfall. I notice a lot of things when I water.
Very true. Old Chinese parable.
A gardeners footsteps is the best fertilizer.
I'm glad you and Dale are okay! Must have been a bit of a scarey moment seeing that gator come out of the water like that! Thanks for the info about the drip irrigation. As a new gardener we have very basic drip irrigation installed but I wasn't happy with it at all last year so we are chaning from drip tape to drip tubing. Love the fact that you installed the knobs in each bed to turn each one on or off as you need. That's a good idea. We just have zones set up with three beds on one zone. We are putting in additional beds this year and that will make our zones much more complicated. I will have my husband watch this and hopefully he will get some ideas!
We have seen countless gators sunning at the pond, but usually they run when you get within 50 feet. He blended in really well, and I didn’t notice. I can’t believe he didn’t care how close we got. Dale surely didn’t care. I don’t consider gators even remotely a threat. You really need to encroach and corner them, which is…beyond unintelligent.
What I’ve learned about drip irrigation is the more zones, the better. Anything you can do to add flexibility helps.
Nice hearing practical words saving us some trial and error. Water pressure in the system is so key. If you live urban, find out what the pressure from the street is for your system. We really like fish emulsion fertilizer, available anywhere. Fertilizer always is good but don't over do it. Use a valve on that in line fertilizer accessory. My helpful tip is to use goof plugs/or a mentioned a line valve to stop watering empty space or using too much fertilizer.
Great video. Perfect for new gardeners getting into drip irrigation.
Thank you!
Another great video... I have a trick for you today... I noticed in your cucumber video that you use those small plastic rings... I have a great tip for a way to use them... now is the time of year when my tomato plants are getting so big that they are falling over... they are vines, after all, and are not supposed to keep growing straight up... and I have them uppotted into trays of 6, from the trays of 12 that I use for seed starting... I gather all 6 of my tomato plants in the tray, and gently lock a ring around all 6 plants at once, a little better than halfway up the plants... they now stand straight and tall and makes them so much easier to move around and water and such... and its almost time to start hardening them off and I think this will even hold against a gentle breeze... it worked so well that I surprised myself, and I think it will surprise you too... those young tomato plants are so delicate and so sticky that this saves me so much time pulling them apart...
Your garden looks so nice!! I love your vids❤
I would like for you to share with your viewers how to design the garden from scratch! Such as the 4 by 4 or 6 by 6 post and how you install if by your self, or the landscape cloth, did you kill off the grass first or how did you do it? I may have to look more into your older videos, don't mean to over step!! Thanks for all your tips!! ❤
Hello violet
Although I do like getting out and watering, this would be super handy for times when I'm not home. Been brainstorming this project. Thanks!!
If you set it up, you'll wonder how you ever did without it.
Great video "Dude"! Drip is the only way to go when grow bag gardening in the warm sunshine of zone 9b here in South Silicon Valley. I use the 360 adjustable spray heads on stakes from Rain Bird or Orbit. I can regulate them very easily and I have never had a blow out because they are on 1/4" tubing . I have mobility issues and so drip makes even more sense. Set it and forget it (or nearly so) and it is miserly with water. Even though we here are technically out of the drought, one really wet winter doesn't cure all the water ills, so best not waste it.
We have very wet summers, and even I need to water my containers daily, so I can't imagine how rough it is in a dry summer climate. Having it automated is a lifesaver.
THE BEST EXPLANATION VIDEO EVER!!!
Thank you so much brother. This video was the best! I am now inspired!
Thank you! I’m glad it was helpful!!
Thank you. You explained it very well. Just subscribed to your channel and will definitely share it
Great video! Thank you.
Drip irrigation. It seems that people either love it or hate it. I set up a basic drip system back in the day and loved it.
These days in the community garden we have our veggies in shallow trenches and slowly fill the trenches. Perhaps a hybrid approach between drip and overhead.
Spot on about disease from overhead watering, although that is mostly done early in the morning by blowing dew over the plants and in the evening putting them to bed wet. If schedules allow, which often they do not, I try to water overhead in the heat of the day to avoid these disease issues, and it helps to cool the plants too.
Watering is harder than many think though as there is often a narrow band between not watering enough and overwatering.
Thank You I so enjoy this i'm starting to make raised bed and i'm going to go with the rain water system for now love the info i will be checking your other video on how to make it
Outstanding! Rain barrels are really awesome. It makes it so easy to fertilize your garden, and not having to use the town water all the time is good.
Amazing video and tips as always!
Thanks so much! I appreciate it!
Drip Depot has excellent kits. We haven't set ours up yet, but hoping to start next weekend. Bought ours 2 weeks ago after watching your previous videos. Cannot wait to get everything all set up.
Edit: Kit came 2 days after ordering (live relatively close to company). The hold up on putting it together was due to our busy schedule.
I used their kit plans to help lay out my design. I couldn't order a kit since my garden is so wacky and customized, but the various setups they have online made it really easy for me to customize my system. Even if you don't buy from them, they're a fantastic resource, but their parts are so good I can't recommend them highly enough.
I live in Florida and have not seen gators in any of my local ponds like you did!
I think they moved up to NC.
Drip irrigation will be for my next house. My garden is maybe as big as one of your raised bed🤭 Thank you for your hard work and good luck in your garden. Love for Dale🐕💖🌻🦋
There are a fair amount of gators here. They are pretty common to find in our retention ponds in the summer. They're tearing down every single tree to build more cheap clear-cut housing, so I guess the poor guys are running out of room to call their home. We don't see them much this early in the season, so that's why I was taken off-guard. Usually, they're buried in the mud keeping warm. Even with one raised bed, drip irrigation makes life easier!
Thanks for the info!
Hi, I just found this amazing video and subscribed right away. Can't wait to start watching more.
This is my first time putting this in the garden. My question is about TIP # 1....
I have 8 Rubbermaid bins of Red Wigglers , I use lots of castings , and make lots of Teas, use lots of water in the summer. I'm excited to be using this drip irrigation this summer .
I put a RV Water Filter on the hose faucet. Then screw the hose onto the Filter. I need the chlorine and everything else out of the water, to keep castings alive. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. lol
Do you think the Filter will slow the water down enough so nothing starts popping off.
OR Will I still need a Pressure Regulator ?
My plan is putting a splitter at the end of the garden hose to run 2, 50' straight lengths of 1/2" hose ,
then the 1/4" tubing running off the hose with drips, Adjustable Drips 😕to the plants.
Now I'm going to bin watch some of your videos ☺ ☺
Cheers from Toronto Canada
Thanks again for an awesome video 🙂🙏🙋♀️
My pleasure! Thank you for watching!
So, what are you doing on Saturday? You are cordially invited to my much smaller backyard to help me revamp my not-so-great irrigation system. Room & board provided!
This is a great video tutorial. If you & yours are a no-show on Saturday, I will be implementing your tips to better irrigate my garden beds. Thank you for consistently providing valuable content in a concise & engaging manner.
Thank you for such an informative video!
You’re welcome!
Impressive thank you
Since I try to limit paid city water, I have ~17 rain barrels and have been watering using a watering can or a bucket for a number of years. To my dismay, I have spent most of my time in the garden watering. Physical limitations have finally gotten me off my butt and planning my drip system. Because of the locations of the barrels and the topography of the yard, I'm going to have to invest in a couple of sump pumps and work on daisy chaining the barrels together.
Gonna be an interesting summer.
I never did drip because I didn't know you can hook to water barrells. Im gonna have to look into it now!!
As long as you place your water high enough that gravity pressure can feed all the lines, you're good to go. Elevating them using concrete blocks is the cheapest sturdy way I've found. Otherwise, you'll need to add a pump to the system to pump the water through the lines. My yard slopes down, so it makes it easy for me, but people with uphill slopes will struggle.
Thanks for making this easy
You're welcome!
I agree i enjoy watering my plants
Love your videos and looking forward to not murdering my plants this year. With a 4 way split watering timer: should there be one pressure limiter going into the timer/splitter, or does each nozzle leaving the timer/splitter need one? I'm worried about a lack of pressure if I do the regulator before the splitter - some of my plants are hanging and the hose will need to fight gravity to get up there.
Thanks and keep 'em coming!
I am just getting back into gardening... I love this automated gardening... Thinking of starting to finally setup a RWH system, and gravity feed to containers this year... then build more gardens next year... love your setup!
I am curious, can I put an inline RV filter from the house water line? I would like to cut down on the chlorine going into soil... where would you recommend putting it... after the the backflow preventer or after the pressure reducer, before the Y joint for barrel/house junction? TIA... love the tips...
Excellent video
I enjoy watering but once summer comes and it's over 100 degrees and you have to water twice a day, it stops being fun. I would really like to try and get some drip irrigation lines set up. I still would have to do some supplemental watering when its really hot but overall it would really cut back on watering. Also, that fertilizer system is really cool. When its not hot I dont mind watering and fertilizing by hand, I have plenty of time so if it takes awhile its not a big deal, in fact I rather enjoy it. But its just those hot summer days where its in the 90s or even 105 or higher, that's when I know i'm going to want to have this set up.
This was really helpful, thank you! Picked up all the pieces a la carte and was a little lost.
Just got done moving everything inside as we are expecting frost up here near Raleigh, hopefully the last of the season! Was just thinking that it may soon be time to setup drip irrigation and up shows this video! Will probably see how painful this summer is and maybe over winter work on getting it setup for next season.
I covered some stuff, too. My forecast says 40, so that means we will be 36-37. I expect to wake up to frost on the north side of roofs, but I am not sure if it’ll reach ground. I’ve lived here long enough to learn that not being under the frost advisory is meaningless. Every year, the frosts have been getting about 3-5 days later. When I moved here, frost ended around March 20. Now it is April 7-10.
Very informative tq
A direct link to the product mentioned 👏👏👏👏
We have a sump pump that moves probably 100 gallons of groundwater a day-just got a barrel and drip setup to finally put it to good use!
Thank you so much for sharing very valuable information, after using / exparimanting drip the irrigation system and also other things! 🙂
Are you planing to make a video on how to setup and use "Dosatron" system for fertilizing?
Good stuff! I noticed my strawberry garden seemed off-balance. Plants at the end of my tape are much larger than those at the front of the tape. I think I’m going to replace the tape to see if I had clogged emitters.
love the way u pronounce Reservoir...!!!! know I know I'm following a smart person....thanks..
Is that often mispronounced? I was born in New Jersey, and I've tried to avoid certain regional word pronunciations.
There is nothing I enjoy more than smoking a bowl 1st thing in the morning and watering my garden.
I’m a long time viewer of your channel and you’ve inspired me to try straw bail gardening this coming season. I’m curious as to how you work drip irrigation with the bales given that they deteriorate over time and collapse to the ground. How do you fix your drip heads to the plants in the bales? Thx
Awesome advice. 👌
Thank you!
Love the videos super helpful.... quick question how long do u run your drip irrigation for peppers and cucumbers?
When I tried drip irrigation many years ago I didn’t know about the pressure regulator part so it was blowing out connections and the water was fine at the beginning but at the end no water came out. I’m trying it again with raised beds, hopefully it will work this time.
Up north seems winterize water irrigation
would be interesting.
Thank you for the great video . I just setup my irrigation . I am using the 1/4 inch tubing 6 in emitter spacing mostly for hydrangea and roses in containers . The emmiter is 1/2 gallon per hour . I have tried to do loop in most container . I am now stuck figuring out how long to run the irrigation everyday . Can you please help with that
Thank you again for the very helpful bed.
I used drip depot 👍. And got it started 😊 however
I had kind of a stupid ha question, but..,.
Do you place your drip tubing under or over the mulch that you have on your vegetable garden beds?
Thanks for the links. You make setting up irrigation sound easy. Can you tell me where you got the small white hoop over the bed in background @1:56? I LOVE that set up, and hope you will share where you got it. BTW, Love your tapes. Water pressure on wells is a real issue, thanks for touching on flow rates and low pressure at the end of the line. QUESTION: Do you pack up all those hoses in winter or leave them out? Also I have a tip for fertilzer. I use a small submersible pump in the barrels and time each bed so they all get the same amt. (saves time without risk of contaminating your watering system) The fertilizing system you have seems complicated. Thanks for the video (liked and subs)
Hooray for tank top weather!
From 87 degrees to a high or 47 on Saturday to a frost advisory tonight. Back up to 81 by Thursday. Welcome to North Carolina.
Dale's like, what just happened? I've not done drip irrigation yet as it seems intimidating and complicated. Thanks again for another informative video I may need to watch a few times, then check out the sites you mentioned for supplies. Saving time and water more efficiently in my garden will give me more time for other things, so it makes sense.
It seems complicated, but once you get started, it's really easy. All it is is running blank tubing and piecing it together around turns and bends where necessary. It's actually kind of fun. It's like playing with Lego's, but a lot less complicated since there are only a handful of parts you'll need. It's easiest to draw out a little line diagram of what you need. I just drew out what I needed for each bed, then multiplied it by the number of beds and added 2 extra of each part, just in case I miscounted, damaged a part or got a bad part.
@The Millennial Gardener thank you for your positive response. This may be my new garden adventure this year/season. I'm 52 years young love gardening, food, Legos and puzzles 😆.
Thank you from Connecticut 😊😊
You're welcome!
I can only grow on my deck and I have a black thumb, so I've made all my containers SIPs. Best thing ever! I never under or over water!
They're awesome for growing citrus. Plants that don't like wet feet love self-watering pots.
What is the psi rating of your pressure regulator when using both drip tape (which requires 8-15 psi) and drip tubing (recommended 25 psi)? I'm getting ready to order from Dripdepot and didn't see this question answered on their website. Thank you for a very informative video.
So glad I ran across your video. I purchased a system last year and was about to lay it out and connect. Valuable info about a shut off valve for different beds. It is definitely an Ah-ha moment and I will be adding shut off valves to my vegetable beds. Also great explanation on different emitters. I’m a newbie to drip and your info explains so well. I enjoy hand watering as well, but don’t have the time. I find that watering would exhaust the time I have leaving no time for planting or caring. I also like to travel So a drip makes a lot of sense. No one else will water my plants the way I do.
Bro I need to run some drip irrigation so bad thanks for sharing this information
You're welcome! It's a major quality of life improvement, and it provides better results in the garden.
Make sense and easier. ❤
Great information! Could you also use the EZ Flow Injector System with the tap on your rain barrel?
Question on irrigation flow issues from your rain barrels to your garden… did you have to add a pump or specific specialized emitters to successfully water your garden from your rain barrels? I’m in the process of getting a rain barrel system set up & want to do it right. Thank you
Greetings Garden Yoda! LOVE your videos! DH Bobby has been doing drip irrigation for several years and has gotten new ideas from this one. We have also started to cover everything in weed cover due to excessive amounts of ground ivy and bindweed (the latter ties the whole garden in knots) and purchased MANY garden bags. We are old (Bobby 78 in 2 weeks, me 72 in July) so simplifiying garden is a must and you have been tremendously helpful. We do have a major problem that we are hoping you have some suggestions for. We live in southern CO, 11 miles from NM border, eastern side of the Rockies, 8,000+ ft altitude and our last frost is anywhere from end of March to 1st week in June, first frost ranging from mid-Sept - late Oct with little warning on either end. We are also usually in drought conditions with high winds. We tried greenhouses - heavy snow caved in one roof and wind beat one up even though they were round. Any ideas on how to time plantings? We are both from the east coast (been in CO 20+ yrs now), gardening all our lives and this climate is very discouraging - in VT you drop a seed and stand back LOL. Thank you for your informative and amusing videos. Hugs to you & Dale from me (Lory), Bob, and Hooch!
It sounds like it would be really difficult to time plantings with that type of erratic weather. I know you said you've tried greenhouses, but I'm guessing you tried the more traditional greenhouse structures like a high tunnel. They can accumulate snow. Have you tried a lean-to style greenhouse that could be built along the south wall of your house? The lean-to style of greenhouses shed snow very easily and also use the house itself as a radiative heat source. Some people in higher elevations actually excavate along the foundation of their house and build several feet deep into the ground below the frost line, because the warmth from the ground comes up and keeps it warm. It would be a project, for sure, but it may be the best solution. Here is a picture: images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1dd24a0100270ad3dc48e1/1618958089935-4JK2SP1KU5FGT13X9QMU/6x18lt.jpg?format=1000w
@@TheMillennialGardener Unfortunately our south side is a 3' wide "alley" between the house & neighbor's fence and also Hooch's bathroom. We have been making use of milk jug mini greenhouses which are working rather well so far. Bobby LOVES the trash can compost idea - he has THREE trash cans going LOL!Thank you for your wonderful videos!
Like and subscribed thank you good video
I recently planted potatoes in bags as shown in one of your other videos. Do you water those through drip irrigation as well, or do you just water with the hose/watering can? Thanks so much for these videos/tutorials! I watch all your videos and search through them every time I have a question! You are so greatly appreciated!
Yes, I put a 1 GPH dripper in the grow bags. The grow bags, due to their fabric exterior, dry out more quickly than hard plastic containers, so keeping them well-mulched and irrigated helps.
Great video. How do you feel about using a soaker hose ? Thanks in advance
Hey Anthony, have you considered making a fig tree with many different varieties grafted onto it? I think it would be a very interesting video or series. I've personally started grafting multiple varieties onto one tree. They are MBVS, Figo Preto, Yellow Long Neck, White Madeira, Martinenca Rimada, and Paratjal Rimada. I think there's something extremely aesthetically pleasing about seeing the contrast between black, yellow, green, red, and stripes.
Looking forward to any updates on the fig breeding project!
I will not be doing that, because where I live, fig trees tend to die back. Every winter, about 1/3 of my trees take some amount of cold damage, so grafting will lead to many lost trees. I only grow fig trees on their own roots, so if they were to die back, they'll grow back true to type. I only advise grafting figs in areas where they certainly will never die back.
@@TheMillennialGardener Fair enough but what I meant was a potted fig tree. I should have specified that. My bad.
I want to graft citrus to one root. One lemon, one lime, 2 ruby grapefruit and 2 tangerine. 💖🌞🌵😷
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Great video! What is that short black connector between your 25psi pressure regulator and the 2-way splitter connected to your faucet? Can I connect the pressure regulator directly to the 2-way splitter?
Last year was my first garden. I made the mistake of buying those adjustable ones. I turned them on for the first time this year and half of the red tips broke off and water spirts were everywhere! Now, I’m going to buy the ones you said. Also, I was wondering if I can use the 1/4 in tubing with the 1/2 in I’ve been using? I know I’ll need goof plugs