CATERPILLAR TUNNEL IRRIGATION
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- A simple and cost effective way of setting up irrigation in caterpillar tunnels. Buy your caterpillar tunnel here: bit.ly/2gItRNf
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Oops. Sorry. I pressed the wrong thumb. I should have pressed a thumbs up . Love and appreciate all your videos, Curtis. You teach very well, are extremely approachable and provide well balanced "I've done it" advice.
That system is awesome Curtis. Will be following that up.
Sweet set up Curtis! that actually gives me some really goo ideas for the summer
Thank you Curtis, your videos are very much appreciated.
Very cool set up. We are planning on investing in one of these caterpillar tunnels and I was already thinking ahead what would be best for irrigation. Thanks for sharing and keep up the amazing work you do.
I went right out and added overhead spray to my garden. I have 10 foot pvc hoops on rebar stakes. Thanks for the great idea.
Great Idea...Doesn't seem to use too much water so that will be great on our Mountain Homestead Tunnels at 8700 feet elevation since we haul our water 1 mile up the road from our Mountain spring to our water tanks to water our gardens. Can't wait to start incorporating this idea. Reasonably priced, too!
Great stuff Curtis, thanks for sharing.. will love to see more setup's tech videos like this one, very inspiring..
one more thing.. we didnt see it working :)
One suggestion to complement your setup:
Capture the rainwater, from the roofs, tunnels, etc into cisterns.
Use a float (if you don't have enough storage or rainfall) off of your city water lines to refill them as needed.
Then you can do most if not all of your watering using rain water instead of processed city water.
Recycle, renew, reuse eh
Always sounds great, but after the cost and time to set that up, there is virtually no return on investment. These kind of things are better suited to homesteads then to commercial farm operations on leased land. Context is everything. That just doesn't match mine, but it might for many others.
Curtis, thanks for sharing, awesome ...
Do you have to worry about damage to the drip lines when you get minor freezes this time of year?
is there a reason to put up a caterpillar tunnel in the spring and summer?
See, now that's what I thought you were going to show/talk about when I saw the video titled "Over head irrigation"..:-)
Love this concept !!! - will try to implement on my own site - will low tunnels help keep deer away ? not an issue in city but somewhat problematic in the country
that's a good question. I've heard of elk and deer poking holes in poly wrapped silage in winter but it hasn't happened yet on my farm.
Another well explained video Curtis! One quick question. ..do you use a filter to get rid of the clorine or do you find that clorine doesn't impact your harvests? Thanks in advance Curtis.
+MrTerrym1964 no. Chlorine through irrigation has no measurable effect on produce that I have seen. However, chlorine levels in water maybe different from place to place.
Urban Farmer Curtis Stone Thanks Curtis! One more question totally off topic but do to the high cost of salanova lettuce have you tried to save your own seeds or is it possible? The only seed company I found that supplies salanova seeds in Canada is the Halifax seed company and it cost me 2.99 for 8 pelleted seeds.
Saving seed isn't worth the time and effort for me. Salanova isn't expensive based on what we make from it.
I'd say that chlorine evaporates fast...
Ken Wright thanks alot Ken. ..I will send the self addressed envelope out today. ..Thanks again!
Terry
You said that you don't run pressure reducers. Do you have any issues with compression fittings for drip tape coming off? I currently am running 10-15 psi reducer but it limits how many lines I can run at one time.
Great videos
Im impressed with how much you already have close to harvest. (coming from the same hardiness zone) Are the beds in this video over wintered or did the caterpillar tunnels give them that much of a jump start?
All of the beds that are green are overwintered. The new beds were just planted out.
poly tunnel and caterpillar are the same? or poly tunnel is a permanent version? or different cover?
Could you use 1/2 instead of 3/4 to feed those overhead sprinklers?
Can you tell me at what temperature would you have to keep your tunnel to grow tomatoes most of the winter?
I don't grow tomatoes in the winter. They went in the ground in that greenhouse March 3rd. We keep it at 5c during cold nights. It stays very warm during the day, like 30c.
Can i cover an area of 100 by 40 foot with one caterpillar tunnel?
Killer...
For us newbies to your channel, what is the name of your book? On Amazon? Thanks
Hey Curtis, have you considered trying out a permaculture experiment on a leased lot in the future?
With your expertise in statistic and record-keeping and general, objective efficiency-tracking and improving, it'd be super interesting to see what kind of results/data you might gather and compare between a, say, 2-year permaculture lot and a comparable square meterage of your regular urban production. :)
I have tried several iterations of irritation my issue is that the sun and heat kill the plastics in a season unless I bury or wrap them, and my metal stuff bites it when we freeze. I have near unlimited water via irrigation but getting it where I want it has been my issue for 3 years now.
Awesome videos. I'm sure I've seen every single one you've put out. Question...Which is the most profitable for you: these videos, microgreens ($2000 in seeds), or your other produce ($1000 in seeds)? Thanks! Learning lots!
He said in another video that microgreens makes about $20 per lb but other greens about $4 to $10/lb.
Show it turned on sometime. Thanks. --Brenda
Thanks, Curtis. There is one question, that really bother me during lots of videos already - I see that your greenhouse is almost empty - it seems that you can easily at least triple the amount of beds/plants that you grow there. So, you do not have enough demand for greens or something else?
All of our greenhouses are totally full.
So you never used drip for spinach? this could be my problem hmmmm
When you are not growing plant on caterpillar tunnel, you can invite kids to play, and sell tickets
Dumb question: can we see it in action? :)
Did you miss the first 5 seconds?
we need another video. some close up and drone shots hahahaha
We'd have a hard time seeing irrigation in a greenhouse operating from a drone shot. Being that they are covered in translucent plastic.
Totally! I was so focused on your beautiful face :P
Just kidding. I wasn't paying enough attention I guess. They so discrete.
Thanks Curtis you're an inspiration.
i was only joking haha