THESE VEGGIE PLANTS ARE THIRSTY!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- 'Filmed May 24, 2024. Now that many of the first plantings of veggie crops have been transplanted on the raised beds with plastic mulch, it is now time to hook up the irrigation to get them watered. In this video I will demonstrate how we bring water from our well to our plants, from the high pressure layflat, to the low pressure oval tube to the drip tape and how the drip fittings are installed, including how to connect a coupler when making a repair in the middle of a row to splice two pieces together.
just starting out here in michigan with sweet corn this year. what would be a few new crops to add for next years road side stand thanhs again i always learn a lot watching you guys.
We have found that fruit is very popular, but it is very expensive and time-consuming to grow and harvest, so other than buying local strawberries, southern peaches and Michigan blueberries, we don’t really mess with too much fruit.
For us, other than the crops I just mentioned, Tomatoes are our biggest seller, next is sweetcorn, and green beans then cantaloupe and watermelon.
We also grow and sell quite a bit of zucchini and cucumbers. Broccoli and cauliflower has always done well for us too, but we have scaled way back on it. And onions and potatoes are always popular too. Hope that helps a little and thanks so much for watching and commenting!
Great setup! Do you dispose of your drip tape after each season or do you reuse?
We always dispose of it, and have never tried to reuse it. I think it would be very prone to small holes the following year and mouse damage. Since we lay new plastic every year and plow the fields, it would be nearly impossible to reuse it because there’s no way to re-lay it with the machine.
Just found your channel and absolutely love the content. Can't wait to see the the outcome of this year's harvest!
Awesome! So glad to finally see some of my content getting pushed out there to a new audience! Thanks so much for checking it out, I really appreciate it!
for Europeans like myself---- 1 psi=0,068 atmosphere
That is something I never really learned about, thanks for sharing!
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I’m wondering if someone could do the math in GPH with numbers provided in the video, for someone using a 4 x 8 raised bed. I’ve used drip tape before, but I found that I had to water forever in order for my plants to get enough water, but I wasn’t aware they made low, med and high flow drip tapeThank you, great video
I can help you with this no problem, just don’t have time to do it right this moment, but I will get back with you with an answer
@@wishwellfarmsthank you sir
is that railroad electrified ? Damn,I swear that train sounds like his predecessor straight from 19th century.
Hahahaha That stupid train pisses me off every day, if the wind and humidity is just right I swear it sounds like it’s driving through my yard lol
Thanks Jason. Just had my new well drilled last Friday. I got 50gpm at 70’. This was super helpful in trying to figure out what size pump and hose/layflat/drip tap i should use for my 2 acres. Awesome job.
Sounds like a pretty good well! I bet if you put a big enough pump in you can water your whole 2 acres at once.
Great video. Too bad you cannot utilze.that 2500 gallons a day of free artesian flow from your well.
Yeah, it would be nice, but it’s really not that much water compared to what it takes to actually water the whole field, it does taste great for drinking! Thanks Becky
Hullo sir. You really do need more help. Half jobs unfinished all over the property. There is not enough hours in the day for everything you are trying to accomplish.
When you do a job do it ONCE,
and do it right. Please make that your work motto rather than spreading yourself too thin.Cheers hard worker.
Thank you for your concerns, but we actually almost over hired this year, we have about 15 employees helping us on the farm planting, harvesting and selling all the produce. I certainly like to only have to do things once and do it right!
Not sure how it is for commercial but for residential pressure regulators they reccomend them go after valves as they shouldnt be under constant pressure.
The purpose of the pressure regulator in this application is to reduce the high pressure from the blue lay flat which is at 60 psi which carries the water to the field down to 12 psi in the low pressure oval tube in the field that the drip tape is attached to. Any higher pressures would blow out the drip tape.
Thanks for the comment.
I must say, discovering drip it
Irrigation last year, was a game changer. I can only get to the garden once a week, so having it on a timer and scheduling when it waters, as well as only putting the water where it is needed (no sense watering the weeds) works perfect for me. I am a little jealous on how easy ur valves attach to your drip tape and main manifold though. Mine r a pain
So, my question then, is how often to u water. U r putting on roughly 3000gal or 12000L, per acre, in that 4 hour period. Is that once a week or every few days. And based that question on no rain fall to supplement that drip. We have been in a drought the last few years so our veggie production has been souls dependent on Irrigation . I can figure out the math adding in any rainfall that we may get. This year is starting out wet, so hopefully that continues
Hey Eric, sorry for the delayed reply, you always have such great comments and questions that I wanna make sure I give you a thoughtful answer and a lot of the comments I reply to are from my phone when I’m out in the field, but I’m gonna respond to you when I’m sitting at my desk, will try to get back to you tonight.
All good. Take your time.
Yes, drip irrigation is great! I used overhead solid set aluminum pipes for my frost control on my strawberries for nearly 20 years and I dreaded every moment of it but I have no experience using travelers or center pivot. The fittings I use are the best I've found over the years, I get them from Martins Produce Supplies in PA.
So I water about 2 times per week most generally but sometimes 3x if its been really hot and dry and there is fruit setting on the plants. This time of year after transplanting though I only water once every other week...I just check the beds for moisture and water accordingly, until the plants really take off they don't really use much water and the plastic keeps the beds pretty moist for quite awhile.
I use Chapin drip tape, low flow .25 gpm per 100 ft., 8mil thickness and 12" emitter spacing, so on one of my 500' rows it takes 1.25 gal per minute to water that bed (.25x5). So in one hour each bed will have gotten 75 gallons of water and I water 16 rows at a time so that is 1,200 gallons per hour and I water for 4 hours minimun each watering. That would be 4,800 gallons of water on those 16 rows during each watering session. I don't know how much acerage 16 rows is, approximately 500x100??? probably close to an acre, but I don't go by the acre on plastic mulch rows since I'm watering only at the root level and it does me no good to know that info.
Since rainfall really has no effect on the soil moisture under the plastic, it does not really change my watering amount...but what does is prolonged time of cold cloudy weather. Hope that helps some!
Using a timer is great if you can't make it to the field often...we did that on our mums so we didn't have to monitor them getting fertigated off and on all day long.
Fellow farmer here that is tired of doing overhead irrigation with wobblers in a field setting. Planning converting everything to drip next year and this video was very helpful. Please keep up the good content, you are helping more people with this quality material than you know!
So, you don't bury your drip tape judging from the splicing demonstration you gave in the soon to be onion bed? How do you make sure you don't puncture the drip line when planting?
I used overhead irrigation for about 20 years, solid set aluminum pipe for 5 acres of strawberries and it was the hugest headache of my life so I completely understand what you’re talking about.
We do bury our drip tape about 2 inches, it was just pulled up out of the center of the bed to be able to splice it together. Thanks!
@@wishwellfarms Thanks so much for the well thought out response.
Привіт з України. Це класна система для поливу, сам примерно такою користуюсь вже не один рік.
Hey there all the way from Ukraine! thanks for reaching out and commenting and watching!
Почва у Вас для вирощування овочів не дуже хороша, мені вже не терпиться побачити що виросте. На такій почві в цей місцевості добре ріс би виноград, на мій погляд.
We have a terrible environment for grapes but fantastic for vegetables especially melons, they love our soil and are so sweet!
where you selling all that veg!?
We attend eight Farmers markets around Columbus, Ohio and we have two retail roadside stands. We used to wholesale to about a dozen small supermarkets, but don’t need to anymore with the growth of farmers markets.
Rule 14l at grade crossing. To longs a short then a long blast of the whistle.
Consider changing those gate valves to ball joints. Gates are known to separate from the handle. Tighten packing but for that leak.
May you have a good crop, love farmers markets.
hey,but don't ball valves get stiff with time and can stuck ?
@@wild_insomnia idk. But I work on an air system. Using two inch, half inch and 3/4" galvanized pipe. It has air and water. Water is vapor and condensate it should not be there but it is. Hugs system. 80 Psi 24/7 with dryers. Turning those brass valves after a while for sitting they seem to work. Brass opposes corrosion. We still have some old. 2.5 and 2" gate valves is what they installed back in the day.
Either type of valve would work fine, but never really had a problem with the gate valves other than adding a little packing from time to time.
These darn trains are far too loud for me almost enough to make me move ha ha
Farmers market video coming soon with many more to follow
I like gate valves
@@wishwellfarms your town can petition the fra for a quiet zone. The train horn is on a speaker and it's not that loud. But the crossing would have to be four quadrant gates or barriers. I think. Brass can give it from a well any way. Use what you like.
you are blessed to have such an awesome productive well.I bet folks from Arizona or California would kill for such a bargain.
Yes, we are, just about everybody in our neighborhood and at our old dairy facilities down the road must be in the same aquifer because it’s only about 50 feet down. Can’t imagine paying for a new well these days and having to go 150 or 200 feet!
This was a very informative session. I like numbers and calculations :-)
Thanks!
The thing that I did not see in the equation for the amount of water you use for irrigation was how often do you water the fields
Sorry for the delayed response, it’s kind of a loaded question because it changes with the temperature, rainfall, the stage of growth the plant is in and many other factors but generally everything is watered about three times a week for about five hours each time
Nice video Jason, on your blue punch take a file and put about 3 file notch in the metal will go right though the pipe, works like it should, have a safe day and thanks for sharing
Thanks Bill, I do have another punch that has serrations in it but it’s too big for those drip fittings, but that is a great idea and I may try that. I do like the drillbit method but is much easier if you can use a 1 inch drillbit otherwise you risk punching through both sides of the flat tube ha ha I have done that a time or two.
Just stumbled across your channel - really enjoy it!
Thank you for checking in out!