Thread: In the Garden 2016

Originally Posted by dinnermint

New username for you "gssixfarms"!

How about gsslashandburn......

I am Soooooooo going to make this work for the Main Garden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOpvLFwjS1g

Don't know how quite yet, but I am going to figure it out, and how to take it apart and store it over the winter..

Glen I laid down a soaker hose down the middle of my rows and then covered with the top mulch, at the faucet I installed a timer, their cheap, turns my water on for however long I need it to soak the row, mine worked out to 5 minutes.
this way no wet leaves which can be a problem, also it saves water too, no excess.
later when I figure out how many rows I will have I,m going to lay a pvc line to the soaker hoses under ground to get the hose off my yard or have the lawn sprinkler guys come and run more drip for me, but the soaker hose and timer works really good. Tc

Originally Posted by gssixgun

I am Soooooooo going to make this work for the Main Garden
Don't know how quite yet, but I am going to figure it out, and how to take it apart and store it over the winter..

Why the need to take it apart? Why not just blow the water out with compressed air? You could put a threaded cap at the end for the water to come out of.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Why the need to take it apart? Why not just blow the water out with compressed air? You could put a threaded cap at the end for the water to come out of.

Pretty much the same as the garden fencing, I could leave it out there, but if we get "REAL" snow I will lose it all to snow crush..

The snow comes off the shop roof out there, and has been so deep that it can no longer even come off there so I have had to bring the tractor in to knock it down, so I have to have access
We have literally been able to walk off the roofs onto the snow, during some of the winters




The roof at that end of the shop is 8' the snow had been cleared a couple of times already that year,, the fence is 6' and that is simple fall not drift or roof drop...

It is just easier to store it all during the winter

OK: Working around massive snow packs makes sense, something us lowlanders don't think about.

If I understand the principle of how this works, where the ball valves are connected to the hose and each other they need to be 'permanently' joined/sealed due to the pressure coming from the water supply system. However as the water has very little resistance in the outgoing piping due to the 1/16" holes the piping is just press fit.

SO! You could have a ball valve for each row and there could be a female coupler attached to the side of it to hook a piece of regular water hose 5/8" or 3/4" with a male end on each end as a flex connector. You could have the flex hose cut longer than you need so you could expand or contract how wide you need them. It would be best to have an idea of where the rows will be every year but you could always have more flex hose.

It would be a Giant Version of those individual lawn sprinklers that have couplers on both ends so you can run them in series to cover a large area.

Any decent hydraulic shop can put male and female connectors on at least 3/4" garden hose as I've had it done. They were heavy duty also.

The 'Trick" part would be to have the female connectors on the ball valves but I'm sure that those have to be out there. Here again the hydraulic shop should be of great help.

Tc's timer idea would be a plus.

When Fall has come and before it gets real cold there in the boonies you could just unscrew the flex hoses pull out the out going pipes with the holes drain everything and store until the next spring.

It's just an idea, I hope it helps.

OK,

Home Depot carries both the male and female PVC garden hose connectors in 3/4:

Here's the male;



Here's the female with a swivel (means you can tighten and loosen it) I think

Give me a break I attended the Dayton Public School System

Yeah pretty much what I was thinking too, running a 3/4 hose over too the garden then build the distribution line with a hose inlet, main valve and with probably only 2 ball valves to supply 4 sections ...

That way I can unhook the hose and have basically 5 sections to store each winter that will be easy to drain ..

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

Glen I laid down a soaker hose down the middle of my rows and then covered with the top mulch, at the faucet I installed a timer, their cheap, turns my water on for however long I need it to soak the row, mine worked out to 5 minutes.
this way no wet leaves which can be a problem, also it saves water too, no excess.
later when I figure out how many rows I will have I,m going to lay a pvc line to the soaker hoses under ground to get the hose off my yard or have the lawn sprinkler guys come and run more drip for me, but the soaker hose and timer works really good. Tc

I've got a drip watering system set up in the garden, backyard, and front yard too. To keep the system fully charged I've had to attach 3 timers to the front and backyard layout (at different bibs) and two timers to the vegetable and fruit garden. The system is the kind that you can bury, as I have. It has a one gallon per hour emitter every linear foot, and you can also punch in 1/4" hose for remote emitters.

The only thing that I wonder about the system is why I didn't do it sooner, although the vegetable garden system has been in for about 15 years. Set the timers and you can forget about watering. For plantings that need less water, they (Rainbird) make an in-line valve for individual line control. I don't think that I would garden without this kind of system.

Well that was a fun experience,

I got 4 rows plowed the other day and got the Walla Walla Onions planted in one of those..

So today before the wife got home I decide I can get the rest of the plot plowed in, fire up the tractor and start plowing..

Breaking and Turning the plot with the Middlebuster got halfway through, and

Heard a big BANG !!!! just about crapped my pants,,

Looked back reluctantly, expecting the worst, and saw the Plowshare laying in the dirt I luckily had only popped both shear bolts, nothing bent or broken that I could see. That was a huge and well buried stump I pulled up hehehe
Guess I am going back to town tomorrow to buy bolt sets...