Combating DROUGHT/HEAT with FREE WATER & POWER to Keep the GARDEN ALIVE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video, I take on the excessive heat and lack of rain we have had the last 2 months in order to keep the garden alive. Kelly has worked very hard on the garden and I want to try to keep her efforts from drying up. Utilizing a deep hole of water on the property that hasn't evaporated yet and solar energy, I come up with a plan to keep her garden watered without spending electricity or taxing our well.
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TROY, just an FYI: an easy way to determine the gallons a particular IBC tote can hold is to count the number of HORIZONTAL bars on the cage. A 330 gallon tote has 6 horizontal bars & a 275 gallon tote has 5 horizontal bars. Hope that helps. Tim in northern TN - formerly Lakeland
Awesome tip! Thnx
As I watched your video, I have to chuckle. This has been the coolest and wettest July we have had in several years. So far we have had only 1 day of 100+ temperature and I have gotten over 9 inches of rain during the month of July. Last year and the year before we had less than an inch during the months of June, July, and August and the temperature was over 100 several days in a row. On average hauled 1500 gallons of water per day just to keep my plants alive. Of course in Texas we expect "hot dry" summers, so this year it has been nice for a change. To haul water, I have a trailer specifically designed (similar to the one you have in your video). Only difference is I use gasoline pumps (2 inch) to pump water. Can fill a tote in about 10 minutes.
I'm in the same climate area as you are (Wythe Co, VA). It has gotten wetter in the last few days. I am bit surprised you do not have water barrels. I have them off of my home and sheds. We use them for the garden and emergencies.
You might consider plumbing in some drip irrigation to your raised beds. It's not that costly, uses water efficiently, and reduces fungus occurrence. It's also easy to automate, so you don't have to move the sprinkler.
Troy I felt that HOT t post lol. also the creek has natural fertilizer in it.
I think you did a great job getting water to the garden for minimal cost. Very resourceful. I hope you've gotten some rain this weekend.
I'm ready to look into a basic solar setup. Maybe just for some lighting. My electric bill was through the roof this month. Ordered a clothes line and pins. Put some appliances on timers and been weather proofing the house all week. Prolly make my money back on the solar setup in no time. No shortage of sunlight as I too live on the surface of the sun - we might be neighbors.
If she is happy with the setup and location you could build an elevated rain system with pvc and sprinkler heads with shutoff valves for dead areas.
That's a great idea!
Your heatwave is just a normal Texas summer 😆 I did get a ton of rain this morning which is weird for us. Grass was about to die so no more worries about mowing but I'm not that lucky.
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I’m a texan I started carnivore a year and a half ago. I found my heat tolerance is beyond great. i’m 60.
@@nataliegist2014 Nice! I was keto year and half and have been carnivore for 5 months now. And yep, noticed a huge improvement in both heat and cold tolerance. And I used to sunburn, have no idea if I still do because it hasn't happened at 2-3x what used to burn me, also handy in Texas!
I'm sweating right along with you and more. My AC broke the middle of the week and the total AC replacement isn't coming until Monday. Modern houses were not designed to be cooled by windows. They are only for light. (Central Florida)
OH, what a nightmare! It sounds like a good time to visit some neighbors :)
Feeling the heat and drought in NC as well
I use a small submersible ran from a 2200 small gas generator in my pond to keep the greenery going
Haven’t made peace with solar yet!!!
I watched this during Ohios' first rainy day in a long time.
Many farmers have hay down.
Troy the garden looks good, when I made a comment about the creek a week or so ago I thought it always had a little water running.
I think u should re paint the trailer up in the driveway with kelly helping lol
You’re killing me Todd!
@@RedToolHouse that was one of my favorite videos and also that evolution of you learning how to corral pigs I remember the beginning and I remember what it's like now lol great day you guys take care and give beautiful wife a hug she has to put up with you
It is amazing how much water is running underneath a stream bed in the sands and gravels .
You might try putting on a " well " close by the stream . Dig a hole down below the level of the bottom of the deepest hole you have .
Put in a large diameter perforated pipe , and wrap it in landscape fabric . This will let water through but not the bigger chunks of sediment .
Backfill with creek gravel .
The well should be usable even when the creek itself is dry .
Of course , you may get derailed of you hit bedrock before you get to the depth you want , which is a real possibility .
Won't know until you try though .
If you succeed, you can put a pump and power it with solar .
Trench in some pex to a tank above the garden , and just fill the tank .
Depending on distance and elevation , you likely may not need a big pump .
Just pump during the day to keep the tank(s) full .
Alternately , I know you seem to have a lot of small seep springs on the higher points of the property .
A little creativity ( and pex ) might net you a nearly permanent water supply that is gravity fed , no pumping required .
The biggest expense will be the pex and trenching it in .
Alternately , just pipe a couple springs to ibc totes .
When you need water , just pull an empty ibc below the full one , run a hose , open the valve , fill your tank .
No pumps required , and , no long runs of pex or extensive trenching .
Just make sure you route the spring flow away from the ibc totes and leave the valve open during the cold months so you don't inadvertently go into the iceberg business .
Use black poly pipe, it’s cheaper and available in 1,000’ rolls (1000’ of ¾” is $176), I zip tied it to a fence to avoid trenching. Have to drain in the fall, but not irrigating at that time. 20:42
Looking forward to seeing you use gravity, rain catchment, and tanks to your advantage. Any update coming on the blueberry tank?
There are small well pumps for about $50 that could fit in an IBC tote, however, it would be cheaper to buy another tote that you can adapt a hose to in this case.
What a blessing for Kelly. 🙂
Do you think you have enough PSI for an oscillating sprinkler?
Did you research solar powered fountain pumps?
They might be slow but save your other/expensive equipment. -KJ
Have you thought about having an IBC on the top of the hill behind you and gravity feeding the garden you could back feed the pipe to fill up the ibc from by your house
Yup, yup, I have to water again today...oh vey, my water bill...how much do I hate a water bill....mucho grande!
Might be a nice time to pan that creek for gold.
It's typical for us to not have rain from April-ish till November-ish, sometimes not till late December or early January. But it has been much much hotter here than normal. We have had more 105°+ days this year than the last 10 years and more over 100° days than in the last few years. I can't wait for winter to get here, I'm missing the rain 🌧️
1:30 - Here in Ohio were in the same scenario basically for the past 60 days. It's bad when the weeds growing under the trees start to wilt and die on their own 🤣🤣
Tank fitting may be a cam lock fitting (no threads, latches onto a groove on the fitting), it’s what’s on the 360 gal IBC tank I use. Rigged up a solar panel, battery, controller & 12V submersible pump to pull water from the creek to irrigate our orchard. Been using gravity flow from the tank to the hose, but it’s taking too long to water the orchard. Just rigged up a 12V harbor freight transfer pump, pressure switch, check valve and battery into a booster pump, it pressurizes the hose to 60 PSI, then shuts off. When I use water the pump turns back on when the pressure drops below 40 PSI. Booster, battery, plumbing & controller are in a DeWalt tool box.
If you put a check valve on the hose going into the IBC for your pump you can just raise and lower the hose in the tank and get it primed faster.
Great job. Hot T post!🔥
Suckers get warm in the sun. Hope you guys are back safely.
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Having done the math to figure out how much water is needed to provide the equivalent of 1-2" of rain to my garden & raised beds - I agree it's easy to take for granted just how much water rain provides for gardening.
Had to dip into my reserve water earlier than usual this year, but thankfully winters here typically don't get cold enough long enough to freeze a full 275 gallon tote of water so I can collect water over the winters (which tend to be much wetter) and have a small reserve built up for the garden & raised beds once the drier months of July & August come back around.
I much prefer using rain water for watering since it doesn't have the chlorine and other additives used in the county water supply - I'm tempted to dig a small pond for greater reserve capacity, but for now several IBC totes have been able to provide enough water storage to keep the garden and raised bed plants from dying.
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G'day again from downunder Troy. Nice little cheapskate video.
Something that might work to allow you to put the pump in the IBC tote is a kayak screw in hatch. They are probably a bigger diameter opening which may fit the pump. All you'd have to do it cut out the original screw cap and silicone and screw the kayak hatch in place.
Good luck with it all
If your tank was up by the chicken church, you could gravity feed a drip system
Try fernco clamp or quick loc fitting on that tote
if you put the Water tote uphill from the Chicken Church, would the pressure created from the gravity drop be enough so you dont have to use pumps?
Yes, eventually. My plan is to have a cistern another 20 feet higher in elevation than the chicken church and do rain catchment up there and gravity the church and gardens
Are you able to use a ram pump? It uses no power and can pump up quite high.
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The odd fitting on your tank may be a Cam lock or banjo style fitting.
You should have rain catchment in to the IBC from the chicken coop and you should have enough drop to have pressure to water everything
With the small room surface area and the fact that they aren't getting rain - that's not going to keep up.
I have a rain barrel that collects from a huge amount of roof......when it rains I don't need to water, so when it gets dry I go through a few hundred gallons pretty quickly and then it's back to using the well. Catching rain is great if you have a lot of roof surface and a lot of storage and also get enough rain to keep up with the demand when there isn't rain.
@@ian3580 I'm just saying to supplemental with the rain
@ian3580 I have used a rain catchment on a small building. Troy has two tanks so it will help to fill both and catch enough to water during drought conditions for at least a few days
Is it possible to change out the valve on the tank to one that is compatible ?😮
Majestic. LOL
Love trying to save money but at what cost to the time you could be spending elsewhere?
Mike, that is the core of my thinking when doing all of this and the challenge I face. When I do this type of experiment, it shows me where I can make additions to automate things more while still saving money
What pump are you using in the creek?
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