The mystery of watering my patch???
Hi,
I want to start another veggie patch after moving into a new rental house, but the BIG mystery to me about growing vegies is getting the watering right!!! In my last patch I installed a combination of sprayers and drippers on black poly pipe running through the vegies. The drippers seemed to do the best job - wasted less water; didn't water the weeds; didn't cause mildew on the zuchinis; etc. However, my concern is that every time I want to re-plant after harvesting, I would have to re-plant at the same spacing as the drippers I have used previously! This is obviously difficult if I want to rotate my crops or grow something of a totally different size! Considering this, should I just stick to sprayers and spray water over the whole patch??? What watering methods do YOU use in your patch??? Cheers, Mick |
The mystery of watering my patch???
g'day dizne,
maybe you could have the dripper nozzles on the end of some of that flexible small diamater hose they use in irrigation systems that way you could then move the drippers to suit the plantings without moving the main drip line. len snipped -- happy gardening 'it works for me it could work for you,' "in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gardenlen1/ |
The mystery of watering my patch???
I like a soaker hose - turned upside down. I just run it the length of the
row and turn it on with the pressure on VERY low. I put it on a timer and let it soak in slowly. "Dizne" surftravelATyahoo.com wrote in message ... Hi, I want to start another veggie patch after moving into a new rental house, but the BIG mystery to me about growing vegies is getting the watering right!!! In my last patch I installed a combination of sprayers and drippers on black poly pipe running through the vegies. The drippers seemed to do the best job - wasted less water; didn't water the weeds; didn't cause mildew on the zuchinis; etc. However, my concern is that every time I want to re-plant after harvesting, I would have to re-plant at the same spacing as the drippers I have used previously! This is obviously difficult if I want to rotate my crops or grow something of a totally different size! Considering this, should I just stick to sprayers and spray water over the whole patch??? What watering methods do YOU use in your patch??? Cheers, Mick |
The mystery of watering my patch???
In article , Dizne wrote:
In my last patch I installed a combination of sprayers and drippers on black poly pipe running through the vegies. The drippers seemed to do the best job - wasted less water; didn't water the weeds; didn't cause mildew on the zuchinis; etc. However, my concern is that every time I want to re-plant after harvesting, I would have to re-plant at the same spacing as the drippers I have used previously! This is obviously difficult if I want to rotate my crops or grow something of a totally different size! Considering this, should I just stick to sprayers and spray water over the whole patch??? What watering methods do YOU use in your patch??? I currently use Aquapore hoses on mine. These are made from old car tyres, and fabricated so water will just sweatš through them. My beds are about 4m long and a 15m hose, loosely coiled down each, covers everything. Each time I replant I just pull out the hose onto the ground next to the bed, do whatever I need to do, then lay it back on top. The hose is not very flexible. At first I thought I would run it backwards and forwards down each row but I could not make it stay in place. I tried staking it down, but found that it was easiest to just not fight it. Lifting the hose out seems easier if it is in loops as well. It is quite expensive though. Next time I think I will try out a soaker hose first before shelling out the dollars. Have Fun .... |
The mystery of watering my patch???
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"Dizne" surftravelATyahoo.com wrote in message ... Hi, I want to start another veggie patch after moving into a new rental house, but the BIG mystery to me about growing vegies is getting the watering right!!! In my last patch I installed a combination of sprayers and drippers on black poly pipe running through the vegies. The drippers seemed to do the best job - wasted less water; didn't water the weeds; didn't cause mildew on the zuchinis; etc. However, my concern is that every time I want to re-plant after harvesting, I would have to re-plant at the same spacing as the drippers I have used previously! This is obviously difficult if I want to rotate my crops or grow something of a totally different size! Considering this, should I just stick to sprayers and spray water over the whole patch??? THe simplest way would be to use the smaller "spaghetti" tube running from the main poly pipe lining, with the drippers attached to that. This is about the thickness of a pencil, cheap, and flexible, and you cut it to lenghts you want. In fact if I did have a watering system in my garden, that is the way I'd do it, as it's the only way I know due to a couple of watering systems at work using this method, and a wholesale nursery near here does it, one dripper or sprayer to each pot. You can also get adjustable sprayers too. Only downfall to it is you can get blowouts where they are plugged into the main line, but usually this is due to high pressures, or holes made to big for the plugs in the main line. Good luck What watering methods do YOU use in your patch??? Cheers, Mick |
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