Interesting. Things are much different in NC than the Central Oregon Cascades. We can get frost any month of the year so everything is underground. I put good landscape fabric down then sand, then heating cables, then more sand with my misting system over the top of the propagating house. I would be concerned about water build up with the ply on bottom and poly does not last very long here.
It looks fantastic. I would love to put in boxwood hedges, but the cost of box, and the quantity i would need, makes that not feasible. I guess with this type of system, you could more easily propagate your own? I have seen in England that you can buy slips pretty inexpensively, but I havent seem box dold that way here, have you?
Can you send me specs on the timer you use for your system. I have my mist system set up with a timer we found on Amazon but we are having trouble with leaking, the mist not coming on.
I would prefer sun with this system. We want to make sure they are drying off between irrigation cycles. I will use shade for other techniques I will show that are not irrigated.
Will that controller, when used with just a 9 volt battery (no AC adapter), still open the valve? My understanding is that the solenoid on that rainbird irrigation valve requires 24v DC to open. Therefore, I would think that the AC adapter on the controller is required in order to convert AC line voltage to 24v DC.
Thanks for the confirmation. Instructions starting at 10:29 can be misinterpreted. Someone who purchases this controller will need a nearby A/C power to plug in the controller.
BTW...Galcon also makes a mist irrigation controller and valve that will operate without an A/C power source. It uses a single 9v battery. The model is 6151-DC1S. I have used this for several years with good results.
