Lived in Arizona, and loved watching my uncle Irrigate the fields in Queen Creek back in 80's. I guess I kinda miss certain things, this is one of them.
Thank you for explaining this system. I think it is pretty neat!! Love how short hair looks on you, Lidia (I think I am spelling your name the way we do in Spanish. LOL!)
That's neat. Where I live isn't anywhere near that dry so the idea of doing the equivalent of a spring flood every two weeks brings only thoughts of a muddy mess.
I find this flooding, cannel watering method fascinating. I have a water bill in front of me for $114 and that's for three months water here in the bay area.
These properties are the better ones in Mesa. One of the pipes was clogged near center by the river so I worked hydro jetting the line clear. I couldnt get the hydro better hose through one way so I tried in somebody else's yard that the pipe and canal was connected to and blew the tree limbs and debris clogging the pipe out after a couple of tries.The guy I was working for said keep trying on the side that house and was for sale on. But the hydro jetter hose not would go through after 20-30 tries and he couldn't get it to go through himself after sassing me bunch loads. I was getting worn out and the pipe was still clogged. So finally Paul McQueen listened and we went to the yard on the other side of the pipe and after I tried a couple of times the jetter hose blasted through and cleared the pipe.
If only more desert dwellers understood this method. We are in El Paso TX where we don't have this system, but benefit from the style of irrigation. Most of the area does sprinklers many days that loose a ton to the air. We do flooding as needed and save a ton and have such great growth that professionals being shown pictures of our tiny yard have advised it can't be done here, not knowing we are local. 😂😥
Did she say the Barbados cherries love it? Well I love you too all the way from Barbados! I really do enjoy watching these videos, tonight is my first time visiting your channel and I really enjoy it. Keep up the good work and these videos coming. This is about my 5 or 6 video for the night. Might have to post 2 or 3 times a day before i watch all... lool
Could you see up a “sprinkler system” using water pressure from the piping and then a small pond like feature for the waterfowl instead of the flooding method?
Very interesting flooding system there in dry hot Arizona!! Not something we're used to in our cold winter climate of Ottawa, Canada. Maybe you should invest also in a Aquascape Rainwater Harvesting system from Ralph Biezad. BTW, the pond build looks wicked! (a fellow Aquascape water feature builder)
Wow, you have so much potential there. Why not plant a food forest? Check out a guy called Brad Lancaster, he lives nearby and has a wealth of knowledge in your climate.
we used to flood here in CA but now we use microsprinklers on the almonds. how long do you get the head of water? I can't remember if they timed us but I don't think they did. no emails either - the ditch tender calls you and then you call him when you are done :)
Hi there, just subscribed. I'm also in AZ and trying to keep the bi-weekly irrigation water to use for a longer period of time to water my vegetable garden. Do you have any suggestions?
I cant remember if I have commented before but I watch you often. I actually go to school in Mesa studying sustainable agriculture. love what you are doing. That is eventually what I want to do but with a little bit more land for growing. :)
Wow that's crazy I really had no idea that you have to have a set time when flood irrigating. Where I come from we can just open the water whenever we want to flood irrigate, so that was a big shocker. But that's very cool that you have a ditch in your back yard, I wish I had that you are very lucky. I have to walk 300 yards to open my ditch and wait 30 minutes in order for the water to reach me. I really love your goats and your chickens. Wonderful video.
I need this on my property! I live in Australia and temps range from 23-118F, the farms around here have these channels but not homes. We pay for our water. This idea would make growing anything so much easier. It's a dry year, 3.5" so far. Enjoying your videos :)
this is a great watering system and cheap ! but in my country it will not work because it's only once every 2 weeks ! we need to water our garden twice a day in winter and 3 times in summer cuz the heat overher is so crazy high and we have sand not dirt where it will keep the water I love farming and I wish we had a better weather we and our plants and animals are struggling because of the heat xD
On our property here in MI, we have 2 ponds, about 10-15 springs (about half seeps) and a nice wide creek filled with spring water. Now I know it is different everywhere you go, but how is that not a huge waste of water? Here we have a huge excess of water and still use drip irrigation directly on each plant if not sprinklers only where they are needed. Still though, that seems like a lot of fun.
Plants free of water deficit events more efficiently absorb available plant nutrients enabling plants to achieve their maximum genetic potential. SWRT membranes installed below plant root systems retain water where it falls, providing continuous delivery of drought-free periods up to 3 times longer than intensely irrigated control sands without root zone water retention membranes (Guber et al, 2016).
My family and I have just got 2 goats and we are now needing to trim the hoofs I have watched your video on it but we don't have any thing we can hold them still on do you have any suggestions on how to keep them still whilst trimming there hoofs ? Also my goats don't really eat anything but alfalfa pellets and hay and grain as a treat they don't love grass or leaves
your goats seem like their livin the good life. i would just have someone hold them in their arms or if there a bigger breed then hold them in place with your hands thats what i do....good luck :)
so i have a idea what if you made a small pond in your back yard with tress around it to shade the water? then you could have more holding water for those 2 weeks, just a idea.
I love that idea. It just seems so wonderful and the best solution to any watering just about anywhere. It doesn't make sense to have people water with treated H2O. Idiotic actually. I lived in the Niagara Peninsula and just a block from the Welland canal. That city could have easily done this, rather than have people use treated water. Of course there watering was restricted most of the time. One question. You live in a place with scorpions. How can you walk around in your bare feet? LOL No seriously. Doesn't it make you nervous?
That water flood situation is very interesting.
That is a really smart move on your city/state's part. What a great way to conserve water while still being able to irrigate your yards!
Thanks for showing how the public works irrigation is handled- I think that is very interesting (I'm from Virginia)
That is a remarkable way to water every two weeks!! Nothing like that her in Philadelphia. Reminds me of the old Roman aqueducts.
Lived in Arizona, and loved watching my uncle Irrigate the fields in Queen Creek back in 80's. I guess I kinda miss certain things, this is one of them.
I don't have a farm or any pets and I live at the end of a neighborhood but I still still find your vids interesting.
Thanks!
Thanks for showing the irrigation. The first time you talked of irrigation I thought now how do they do that. Now I know. Pretty neat I think.
I love irrigation day!!!❤❤❤
Thank you for explaining this system. I think it is pretty neat!!
Love how short hair looks on you, Lidia (I think I am spelling your name the way we do in Spanish. LOL!)
Thanks!
This is interesting irrigation system for neighborhood.
That's neat. Where I live isn't anywhere near that dry so the idea of doing the equivalent of a spring flood every two weeks brings only thoughts of a muddy mess.
I find this flooding, cannel watering method fascinating. I have a water bill in front of me for $114 and that's for three months water here in the bay area.
These properties are the better ones in Mesa. One of the pipes was clogged near center by the river so I worked hydro jetting the line clear. I couldnt get the hydro better hose through one way so I tried in somebody else's yard that the pipe and canal was connected to and blew the tree limbs and debris clogging the pipe out after a couple of tries.The guy I was working for said keep trying on the side that house and was for sale on. But the hydro jetter hose not would go through after 20-30 tries and he couldn't get it to go through himself after sassing me bunch loads. I was getting worn out and the pipe was still clogged. So finally Paul McQueen listened and we went to the yard on the other side of the pipe and after I tried a couple of times the jetter hose blasted through and cleared the pipe.
When my neighbors don't release the water. I go up the ditch and release the water when it's my time. You do have that right.
If only more desert dwellers understood this method. We are in El Paso TX where we don't have this system, but benefit from the style of irrigation. Most of the area does sprinklers many days that loose a ton to the air. We do flooding as needed and save a ton and have such great growth that professionals being shown pictures of our tiny yard have advised it can't be done here, not knowing we are local. 😂😥
Thank you for this video, I had no idea about how any of this worked until now!
Thank you sooooooooo much for likening my comment like thannnnnnnkkkkkk you
That's a very interesting system, don't think I've ever seen this in such a setting. Great to watch, thank you!
Lydia looks so beautiful with short hair!!
That's sweet!
Did she say the Barbados cherries love it? Well I love you too all the way from Barbados! I really do enjoy watching these videos, tonight is my first time visiting your channel and I really enjoy it. Keep up the good work and these videos coming. This is about my 5 or 6 video for the night. Might have to post 2 or 3 times a day before i watch all... lool
Welcome!
That irrigation system is truly bizzarre
I wish I had a Kevin! He is too funny!
Love your haircut Lydia very becoming.
Could you see up a “sprinkler system” using water pressure from the piping and then a small pond like feature for the waterfowl instead of the flooding method?
Beautiful Lydia your daughter is so special I know I always say it but great great parents
Wow! Life in the desert sure is an experience! The hottest our homestead has ever been is 93! Didn't even know towns had irrigation like this!
Very interesting flooding system there in dry hot Arizona!! Not something we're used to in our cold winter climate of Ottawa, Canada. Maybe you should invest also in a Aquascape Rainwater Harvesting system from Ralph Biezad. BTW, the pond build looks wicked! (a fellow Aquascape water feature builder)
I can't stop watching your videos.
Watching this again. 😊
Wow, you have so much potential there. Why not plant a food forest? Check out a guy called Brad Lancaster, he lives nearby and has a wealth of knowledge in your climate.
Futurecare Design they do. It’s in the front yard.
I wish irrigation worked that well here in Shasta county California. Lol.
we used to flood here in CA but now we use microsprinklers on the almonds. how long do you get the head of water? I can't remember if they timed us but I don't think they did. no emails either - the ditch tender calls you and then you call him when you are done :)
Hi there, just subscribed. I'm also in AZ and trying to keep the bi-weekly irrigation water to use for a longer period of time to water my vegetable garden. Do you have any suggestions?
do you have the right to open the neighbors gate if they dont?
I'm in Tempe and I feel you on the heat! Can't wait to move to a cooler climate.
I cant remember if I have commented before but I watch you often. I actually go to school in Mesa studying sustainable agriculture. love what you are doing. That is eventually what I want to do but with a little bit more land for growing. :)
Awesome!
Wow that's crazy I really had no idea that you have to have a set time when flood irrigating. Where I come from we can just open the water whenever we want to flood irrigate, so that was a big shocker. But that's very cool that you have a ditch in your back yard, I wish I had that you are very lucky. I have to walk 300 yards to open my ditch and wait 30 minutes in order for the water to reach me. I really love your goats and your chickens. Wonderful video.
I need this on my property! I live in Australia and temps range from 23-118F, the farms around here have these channels but not homes. We pay for our water. This idea would make growing anything so much easier. It's a dry year, 3.5" so far. Enjoying your videos :)
Thanks Lisa!
SMART METHOD TO WATER THE LAND
any of you ever played Pooh Sticks with the irrigation wave? XD your supposed to use a bridge but that wave would work ok too :) xxx
i wish i had that flooding system San Diego California instead i pay $200 a month for about 1/10 the water.
You should move to Canada bc we get all seasons in 1day 😂
Can you do more videos on the ducks, and what you are planning on doing with them in the future
What do you do if neighbor doesn’t move his cover?
ha ha! your drive to the hair place looked just like it does here when I head to town. so funny! dirt dust and corn! lol
This kind of irrigation helps you to appreciate the gravity of your situation. ;-)
this is a great watering system and cheap !
but in my country it will not work because it's only once every 2 weeks !
we need to water our garden twice a day in winter and 3 times in summer
cuz the heat overher is so crazy high
and we have sand not dirt where it will keep the water
I love farming and I wish we had a better weather
we and our plants and animals are struggling because of the heat xD
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It goes from 1.5k to 1.6k when I clicked like ur welcome
(And goes back to 1.5k when I unlike it) (don’t worry I still put it on like)
Wishing I could flood my property!
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Why dont you buy a 5 thousand litre tank to store this irrigation water for proper irrigation of all your threes and where ever you want to irrigate.
I'm Australian. This "flooding" technique looks bizarre to me
On our property here in MI, we have 2 ponds, about 10-15 springs (about half seeps) and a nice wide creek filled with spring water. Now I know it is different everywhere you go, but how is that not a huge waste of water? Here we have a huge excess of water and still use drip irrigation directly on each plant if not sprinklers only where they are needed. Still though, that seems like a lot of fun.
wow, cool!
This is such a bizarre concept! I am afraid that we will look back at this in 10-20 years with envy and sadness.
When ever you find it too hot just think of us in Quebec that live with temperatures between -22 and 86...
Valérie Lacombe -22 par temps chaud ça!! Et oublions pas l'humidité l'été
Wow so interesting
I have woodbees in my back yard
Plants free of water deficit events more efficiently absorb available plant nutrients enabling plants to achieve their maximum genetic potential. SWRT membranes installed below plant root systems retain water where it falls, providing continuous delivery of
drought-free periods up to 3 times longer than intensely irrigated control sands without root zone water retention membranes (Guber et al, 2016).
I think that chicken got a scorpion
Hi I'm new
Couldn't you pump some of that water into IBC containers allowing you to water at will?
Yes, we've done that some.
Hi, I was wondering about the environmental effects irrigating like this would have? Looking forward to a reply pleassee.
In what way?
It's irrigation day!!!!! It's irrigation day!! Btw I got that from frozen
What if your not home on iragation day?????
We have to find a friend to help out ;)
Most precious question so far! Thank you for asking it!
(and thank you for the answer!)
Brandon Allen what’s iragation day?
My family and I have just got 2 goats and we are now needing to trim the hoofs I have watched your video on it but we don't have any thing we can hold them still on do you have any suggestions on how to keep them still whilst trimming there hoofs ? Also my goats don't really eat anything but alfalfa pellets and hay and grain as a treat they don't love grass or leaves
your goats seem like their livin the good life. i would just have someone hold them in their arms or if there a bigger breed then hold them in place with your hands thats what i do....good luck :)
lil xoxo it also may help if you have some treats they can be eating while you try to trim so they are more likely to want to stay there!
How could Lidia cut her hair I have long hair and I don’t want to cut it
Look at all those chicken I lov ur TH-cam
so i have a idea what if you made a small pond in your back yard with tress around it to shade the water? then you could have more holding water for those 2 weeks, just a idea.
What if someone is on vacation or they just forget to unlock their irrigation thing? And your just waiting and waiting lol
What do you do if you have to work when you are due for irrigation?
You’re daughter sitting beside you is So Dang Cute!
We cant do that in my country. We will get mosquto infestation lol
How do you manage this when people are at work and can't be there to open and close things?
It's hard sometimes and neighbors will mess it up for you. Some people hire others to do it.
Thank you so much! I asked and you delivered. Interesting how that works and very inexpensive. Do you grab buckets for watering later?
We have before in our big 300 gallon tanks.
What part of AZ are you guys in, Im up in scottsdale and I would love to have the Flood Irrigation
Steve LaChappelle They are in Gilvert!
Were any of you ever bitten by a scorpion?
Very strange watching desert land being irrigated to this excess, if we did this with our yard it would turn to a mud bath for weeks if not months.
This date on the start of the video I was my birthday
what happened to the sheep? they aren't in newer videos
Fascinating! Scorpions!?! YIKES and you guys are barefooted!?!
Sylvia Vega-Ortiz you just
June 26
I love that idea. It just seems so wonderful and the best solution to any watering just about anywhere. It doesn't make sense to have people water with treated H2O. Idiotic actually. I lived in the Niagara Peninsula and just a block from the Welland canal. That city could have easily done this, rather than have people use treated water. Of course there watering was restricted most of the time.
One question. You live in a place with scorpions. How can you walk around in your bare feet? LOL No seriously. Doesn't it make you nervous?
They only come out at night mostly. First time i've seen one in the daytime in years.
I sure hope Miss Lydia is using lots of sunscreen!!
2021?
I thik lose is beter
Jesus loves you!!!
Do you get snakes in your yard?
Very rarely small garter snake....more like a worm
Are you ever scared of scorpions
What is the purpose of this ?
What’s irrigation day?
Gosh, Lydia... you are one gorgeous girl.
Where does this water come from. Sorry but this is not an environmentally friendly practice. No do deer we have problems with mother earth...
200 a year I pay 20
Orlando iturralde we pay 0 for water usage in norway 😎 only 100 dollars for sewer each year
Rune Rafell all we pay is to hook the house up to sewer and that’s it.
This is my birth date
Are you screwing your next neighbor by doing that?
No we all have times to use the water
Thanks for clearing that up for me! @@Weedemandreap
Bean head
How is she a red head is she adopted
Boy ?
that's such a bad way of watering, in this day and age they should have updated this long time ago.