You have inspired me so much , because of you my husband and I built our first high tunnel . You responded to my question regarding the tarp . I lost my husband during Covid. We only got to enjoy the green house together for a couple of years before that happened. Just wanted to say THANK YOU !! I’m doing my best to carry on with it . Keep inspiring others!
I'm so so sorry for your loss and appreciate you sharing this experience with us. I'm glad you got to spend some time together with that space and I'm hoping for abundance and health and vitality for you into the future
We have been thinking about how to best distribute water into our tropical greenhouse and this was an idea we had and after seeing this in practice we are going to give it a try too thanks for the video Sean!
I need to do that in my raised beds as well as around my fruit trees so that at least when it rains the water is distributed where it can best be used so that water isn't wasted washing over grass down to my neighbors property.
Your innovation is amazing: it seems flood irrigation is rarely discussed by permaculturists - I only get search results on flood irrigation from Indian farmers. You help prove just how much simpler gardening can be by using simple ingenuity.
I've said this before - well, I wrote it - I love the slow flow of the water. I find it SO relaxing. It's such a gentle caring for the plants and ourselves. Your kid is going to have a blast playing in the dirt, though your dirt is very rich and not really dirt. Take care! 🤗💛🤗
A great way to save time and labour by using gravity to help water and letting the rain in as well. When you discuss the plants I'd love to hear about how you over winter the figs as I got my first figs this spring and am not sure what to do with them this winter. Great info! Thankyou!
The water manifold that you are using as a valve is a choke point in your water system. If you look inside the ball valve itself is half the diameter of a hose reducing flow especially in a low pressure system like yours. I appreciate your videos and learn alot
VERY good reminder. Yep, I'm aware, this is a thing meant for a much higher pressure system. It's what I have for now but I'll keep an eye out for a 0 restriction one
Irrigation trenches have proven themsleves over and over... Nice to see you ’under engineering’ them ! Thinking of soil life, aĺ over distribution of wqter is important. That’s why myndrip irrigation (i don’t get rain at qll in summer) is very close knit
I never ever go wrong watching EdibleAcres and so many of these vids I can watch many times the info may seem low or basic to some that Shawn gives but that is so far from the reality. Just in this vid there are at lease a few hours of study if you look at it simple and clear. Alas just look at the insects around the garden and the Ants crawling over things, what do you see??? in this ?? What do I see plants that a little insects have no worry about climbing around and being dead 10 seconds later, for jut push the little guy aside and say thank you pick the tomato or what ever eat it and give back the little waste piece to them to enjoy until next time.....aaaaaaaahhhh beautiful and so relaxing
We love having you in our community Antio and enjoy your contributions and affirmations. Thank you so kindly and we look forward to trying to keep our content thoughtful and engaging for lovely folks like you!
My first thought for the watering would be.. gravity fed drip irrigation, fed from say a 30-50 gallon elevated tank, filled via solar pump. It's not completely passive, but about as good as you'll likely get, without living someplace with a significantly elevated water source such as a pond 10s of feet higher, or from a flowing creek or river via ram-pump.
Great tutorial! I will try to build this in my hightunnel as I am fed up hand watering with cans of my valuable rain water for hours twice a week. It is so exhausting.
Maybe its a solution for certain areas that are 1) hard to reach by can and 2) pretty level already. Somewhere to start and see how it works from there...
I know you don't like to add new plastic, but you can also use some kinds of drip irrigation with gravity fed irrigation. Flag drip emitters will work with less than 1 psi. It's very slow, but that doesn't matter because you aren't there watering the plants. Space the emitters every 6 inches, and it waters itself.
Your soil is so different from mine. I had nothing much more then dirty beach sand when I moved in here. Most of it initially repelled any water. The water would ball up and just sit on the surface or run downhill if there was any grade at all. I could use with a little of that clay you have.
I also envy their beautiful soil. I'm stuck with a sandy, dead soil. That combined with the drought makes it a difficult task to get things growing. I love their abundance and always look forward to a new video
It all comes down to organic matter... The texture of the mineral soil impacts growth to be sure but organic matter resolves pretty much everything it seems...
Is that a one year old currant seedling at 8:39? I just bought some seed, and also harvested some fruit for the seed this year and I don't know how much growth I should be expecting first year! Hope you guys enjoy the rest of the season, can't believe it's already August 😆❤
Hmmm... I'm guessing these may be 2nd year seedlings. Definitely not cuttings, but the brown lower stem is more indicative of a 2nd year plant... Yeah, the season is moving along QUICKLY!
Random question, around 8:43, a plant with beautiful pinnate compound leaves (I don't know the right botanical term) appears on the left side of the screen, it looks taller, with a woody stem. Would you share what plant that is? Great video. It reminds me of being a child, in a lovely way. :)
Amazing setup and design. We’ve been thinking about doing something similar, our swales through our food forest lead directly into our hoop house. We have sandy soils so I was thinking of laying down coffee bags or something similar to slow the water infiltration. Do you think that would work well or do you have another recommendation. Really appreciate all the videos you put out, thank you!
I think with super sandy soils you won't do much to slow infiltration, but your design will help bring a bunch of water in if there is a super intense rain so that is helpful!
Interested to hear how your ginger responds to more intense watering. I hadn't appreciated what a difference this makes to some plants until recently. We have had a very wet 12 months and it is just past mid-winter. I was running low on potatoes and remembered there had been some purple fleshed fingerling potatoes in a bed I'd forgotten about that gets little sun. Wasn't expecting much but instead I got an amazing harvest and some of the fingerlings were double or triple their normal size. They obviously loved the wet that has turned the grass to moss. Not necessarily the case with other types of potato I guess. These are real survivors. .
That is wonderful to hear because we've got a potato field that I'm nervous about since it's been SO SO rainy but hopefully the raised beds translate into what you've described too!
Water would drain away in the sand at the south side of my greenhouse. While I was rebuilding the foundation and it was dug out, I put down a water barrier and a flexible perforated tube from one end to the other. Now I can fill that tube with water and it saturates the soil from the bottom.
Flood irrigation works great if you have lot of water. Can cause sedimentation compaction, and anaerobic conditions on the long term. Low tech drip equivalen would be the terracotta pot technique? What do you think about that? Thanks for the video, always enjoyable content.
I hear you in possible issues, although my plan is to renovate the 'channels' but scraping them out and using as mulch on beds pretty often so the turnover literally of soil will be good there... Pots are a way to add water in spots, but wouldn't work for me in this context. Amazing for a few raised beds for sure!
Do you have any recommendations for working with and improving heavy clay soil? I live in Arizona and just don't know where to begin when it comes to amending it.
AAMOM... Always Add More Organic Matter! You don't have to work it in, you don't have to till it, etc. etc, just mulch and plant and mulch and plant and let roots and soil protection and soil life slowly do the good work...
@@edibleacres Thank you, that seems simple enough. I keep rabbits and have no shortage of organic matter between them and the pine shavings I use in their housing, would that be appropriate?
I don't know how you can get away with figs inside the tunnel. I know I'm way far south (Arkansas) but the figs in my backyard near Memphis, in one year would be close to 15 feet tall, and of similar diameter. I think my soil was tooo good, with excessive nitrogen for them as they grew huge, but not a lot of fruit. I probably need them in some kind of container to keep them smaller and force them to fruit. Someday. Anyway, lovin the videos, and keeping up after watching the Verge series.
I had the same problem here in northern germany, had figs in containers for a few years , then planted them in soil in the high tunnel , they grew 7 by 7 feet in one year , no fruit to be seen , i lifted them this spring and planted them on the southside of the house , next to a privet hedge , they grew "only" 2 feet this summer , but still no fruits
Glad to have you with us... I could imagine immensely fertile soil would produce copious growth and minimal fruit, but I'm also just starting to learn myself...
@@edibleacres there is drip irrigation that's made with non toxic materials that would be safe and is made especially for that purpose. Swales are good for larger producing fields where mostly fruit trees are grown so that the ground won't get eroded from too much rain and it's a good idea to let the runoff flow into a pond to capture some of the water but for greenhouses it seems a bit messy. I've also seen swales in a food forest like in permaculture but with the runoff always being captured in some sort of reservoir.
I felt a slight twinge of jealousy over the absence of chiggers in upstate NY while watching you move swales with bare hands and talk about being barefoot in the garden.
I love the "hands on/or in approach" 😆
You have inspired me so much , because of you my husband and I built our first high tunnel . You responded to my question regarding the tarp . I lost my husband during Covid. We only got to enjoy the green house together for a couple of years before that happened. Just wanted to say THANK YOU !! I’m doing my best to carry on with it . Keep inspiring others!
I'm so so sorry for your loss and appreciate you sharing this experience with us. I'm glad you got to spend some time together with that space and I'm hoping for abundance and health and vitality for you into the future
Another great video! I watch your videos every night before bed.
I've learned quite a bit from your videos. Thank you for sharing the knowledge. Greetings from Costa Rica.
So happy to have you with us
We have been thinking about how to best distribute water into our tropical greenhouse and this was an idea we had and after seeing this in practice we are going to give it a try too thanks for the video Sean!
You can always try a small area :)
@@edibleacres seems like a good place to start! Right between the banana trees
I need to do that in my raised beds as well as around my fruit trees so that at least when it rains the water is distributed where it can best be used so that water isn't wasted washing over grass down to my neighbors property.
I have wanted to experiment more with trench irrigation. Probably happen after we get a well! Thank you - everything looks beautiful.
Your innovation is amazing: it seems flood irrigation is rarely discussed by permaculturists - I only get search results on flood irrigation from Indian farmers. You help prove just how much simpler gardening can be by using simple ingenuity.
I've said this before - well, I wrote it - I love the slow flow of the water. I find it SO relaxing. It's such a gentle caring for the plants and ourselves. Your kid is going to have a blast playing in the dirt, though your dirt is very rich and not really dirt. Take care! 🤗💛🤗
Yeah, I couldn't help but think how much fun they will have with that dad, bare feet in wet dirt - heaven at a few ages.
We're hopeful our little new person will find this world we're crafting as engaging as we do
@@edibleacres🥹🥹 Me too friend
That is a gorgeous food forest!
Thanks!
Thank you. I love this idea for watering 🙏🙏🙏
:)
A great way to save time and labour by using gravity to help water and letting the rain in as well. When you discuss the plants I'd love to hear about how you over winter the figs as I got my first figs this spring and am not sure what to do with them this winter. Great info! Thankyou!
Im in zone 7. I have the same issue, they are very sensative to frost. Best i could figure was cages with tarps
It's an experiment, we'll have to see how it unfolds
Great video there eh! Found this very calming to watch and what a great idea for future gardening... thanks for sharing
So glad!
This was just what I needed in the middle of the work day - paleo water play. Obv, it's a great idea! The tomatoes look so good.
Paleo Water Play... ha! Glad it landed right for ya
Thanks for the inspiration! Really nice natural technique
Glad you like it!
Love it!
The water manifold that you are using as a valve is a choke point in your water system. If you look inside the ball valve itself is half the diameter of a hose reducing flow especially in a low pressure system like yours. I appreciate your videos and learn alot
VERY good reminder. Yep, I'm aware, this is a thing meant for a much higher pressure system. It's what I have for now but I'll keep an eye out for a 0 restriction one
@@edibleacres the large plastic ones have a full flow maybe some will cross your path
I love this idea! Thanks😊
So glad to share
Irrigation trenches have proven themsleves over and over... Nice to see you ’under engineering’ them ! Thinking of soil life, aĺ over distribution of wqter is important. That’s why myndrip irrigation (i don’t get rain at qll in summer) is very close knit
When you get down too far to continue removing soil from the trench, you could build it back up with compost. A great way to fertigate the crops
I think I'm inspired; thank you!!
So glad!
I never ever go wrong watching EdibleAcres and so many of these vids I can watch many times the info may seem low or basic to some that Shawn gives but that is so far from the reality. Just in this vid there are at lease a few hours of study if you look at it simple and clear. Alas just look at the insects around the garden and the Ants crawling over things, what do you see??? in this ?? What do I see plants that a little insects have no worry about climbing around and being dead 10 seconds later, for jut push the little guy aside and say thank you pick the tomato or what ever eat it and give back the little waste piece to them to enjoy until next time.....aaaaaaaahhhh beautiful and so relaxing
We love having you in our community Antio and enjoy your contributions and affirmations. Thank you so kindly and we look forward to trying to keep our content thoughtful and engaging for lovely folks like you!
My first thought for the watering would be.. gravity fed drip irrigation, fed from say a 30-50 gallon elevated tank, filled via solar pump. It's not completely passive, but about as good as you'll likely get, without living someplace with a significantly elevated water source such as a pond 10s of feet higher, or from a flowing creek or river via ram-pump.
I hear ya... The rain water tanks we have are about maybe 20 feet higher and it really works
Great tutorial! I will try to build this in my hightunnel as I am fed up hand watering with cans of my valuable rain water for hours twice a week. It is so exhausting.
Maybe its a solution for certain areas that are 1) hard to reach by can and 2) pretty level already. Somewhere to start and see how it works from there...
I know you don't like to add new plastic, but you can also use some kinds of drip irrigation with gravity fed irrigation. Flag drip emitters will work with less than 1 psi. It's very slow, but that doesn't matter because you aren't there watering the plants. Space the emitters every 6 inches, and it waters itself.
Good reminder as a backup
Your soil is so different from mine. I had nothing much more then dirty beach sand when I moved in here. Most of it initially repelled any water. The water would ball up and just sit on the surface or run downhill if there was any grade at all. I could use with a little of that clay you have.
I also envy their beautiful soil. I'm stuck with a sandy, dead soil. That combined with the drought makes it a difficult task to get things growing.
I love their abundance and always look forward to a new video
It all comes down to organic matter... The texture of the mineral soil impacts growth to be sure but organic matter resolves pretty much everything it seems...
Is that a one year old currant seedling at 8:39? I just bought some seed, and also harvested some fruit for the seed this year and I don't know how much growth I should be expecting first year! Hope you guys enjoy the rest of the season, can't believe it's already August 😆❤
Hmmm... I'm guessing these may be 2nd year seedlings. Definitely not cuttings, but the brown lower stem is more indicative of a 2nd year plant...
Yeah, the season is moving along QUICKLY!
Random question, around 8:43, a plant with beautiful pinnate compound leaves (I don't know the right botanical term) appears on the left side of the screen, it looks taller, with a woody stem. Would you share what plant that is? Great video. It reminds me of being a child, in a lovely way. :)
I think you are asking about ginger based on your time and description...
@@edibleacres Ah! I've never seen ginger growing, how beautiful.
Amazing setup and design. We’ve been thinking about doing something similar, our swales through our food forest lead directly into our hoop house. We have sandy soils so I was thinking of laying down coffee bags or something similar to slow the water infiltration. Do you think that would work well or do you have another recommendation. Really appreciate all the videos you put out, thank you!
I think with super sandy soils you won't do much to slow infiltration, but your design will help bring a bunch of water in if there is a super intense rain so that is helpful!
Genius!
Interested to hear how your ginger responds to more intense watering. I hadn't appreciated what a difference this makes to some plants until recently. We have had a very wet 12 months and it is just past mid-winter. I was running low on potatoes and remembered there had been some purple fleshed fingerling potatoes in a bed I'd forgotten about that gets little sun. Wasn't expecting much but instead I got an amazing harvest and some of the fingerlings were double or triple their normal size. They obviously loved the wet that has turned the grass to moss. Not necessarily the case with other types of potato I guess. These are real survivors. .
That is wonderful to hear because we've got a potato field that I'm nervous about since it's been SO SO rainy but hopefully the raised beds translate into what you've described too!
Water would drain away in the sand at the south side of my greenhouse. While I was rebuilding the foundation and it was dug out, I put down a water barrier and a flexible perforated tube from one end to the other. Now I can fill that tube with water and it saturates the soil from the bottom.
Very cool!
Barefoot and barehanded participating in creation, love it!
Good to touch that which keeps us alive
Flood irrigation works great if you have lot of water. Can cause sedimentation compaction, and anaerobic conditions on the long term. Low tech drip equivalen would be the terracotta pot technique? What do you think about that?
Thanks for the video, always enjoyable content.
I hear you in possible issues, although my plan is to renovate the 'channels' but scraping them out and using as mulch on beds pretty often so the turnover literally of soil will be good there...
Pots are a way to add water in spots, but wouldn't work for me in this context. Amazing for a few raised beds for sure!
@@edibleacres Thanks for your answer! Context matters of course, and your area has abundant rainfall!
Do you have any recommendations for working with and improving heavy clay soil? I live in Arizona and just don't know where to begin when it comes to amending it.
Strawbale and horse manures. Make it light and floofy
AAMOM... Always Add More Organic Matter!
You don't have to work it in, you don't have to till it, etc. etc, just mulch and plant and mulch and plant and let roots and soil protection and soil life slowly do the good work...
@@edibleacres Thank you, that seems simple enough. I keep rabbits and have no shortage of organic matter between them and the pine shavings I use in their housing, would that be appropriate?
Hose And drip is better but flooding works as well.
Beautiful!❤🌿💦
Can you imagine how much fun a child will have in this area?
Folks press the like button.
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I don't know how you can get away with figs inside the tunnel. I know I'm way far south (Arkansas) but the figs in my backyard near Memphis, in one year would be close to 15 feet tall, and of similar diameter. I think my soil was tooo good, with excessive nitrogen for them as they grew huge, but not a lot of fruit. I probably need them in some kind of container to keep them smaller and force them to fruit. Someday. Anyway, lovin the videos, and keeping up after watching the Verge series.
I had the same problem here in northern germany, had figs in containers for a few years , then planted them in soil in the high tunnel , they grew 7 by 7 feet in one year , no fruit to be seen , i lifted them this spring and planted them on the southside of the house , next to a privet hedge , they grew "only" 2 feet this summer , but still no fruits
Glad to have you with us... I could imagine immensely fertile soil would produce copious growth and minimal fruit, but I'm also just starting to learn myself...
Why not just put in gravity fed drip irrigation?
I'm interested in less plastic touching the soil and leaching into our food. I'm not intensely against it, but just more interested in not using it
@@edibleacres there is drip irrigation that's made with non toxic materials that would be safe and is made especially for that purpose. Swales are good for larger producing fields where mostly fruit trees are grown so that the ground won't get eroded from too much rain and it's a good idea to let the runoff flow into a pond to capture some of the water but for greenhouses it seems a bit messy. I've also seen swales in a food forest like in permaculture but with the runoff always being captured in some sort of reservoir.
I felt a slight twinge of jealousy over the absence of chiggers in upstate NY while watching you move swales with bare hands and talk about being barefoot in the garden.
I was thinking the same thing. For fear of fire ants I shudder at the thought of being barefoot.
We have chiggers but not a ton