This style of drip irrigation really is the way to go... it keeps the surface of the beds dry which helps to control issues like pests and diseases... yet a couple inches below the surface stays nice and moist so a carpet of roots can form underneath... like Kyle says, do not be concerned if you only see small circles of moisture on the surface... underneath is well saturated... that part takes some getting used to! lol... Another well made video Kyle!.. I am liking your style of presentation, its clear and strait to the point... thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience.
@@urbanfarmstead yes I've used drip tape extensively in the past and its great when you have a long strait run to do... I had greenhouse beds that were 20 x 75 and they worked great for those!... but last for one season only... and they don't like to have nutrients run through them because the emitters are too small and they get clogged very easily...
Nate Muri thanks for sharing your experience. I know it’s very popular with market farmers and seems a good fit for those large scale grows but I definitely wanted a system that will last a long time.
I’ve been binge watching your videos and it’s giving me hope with the vegetable garden I’m starting in the next couple of weeks (as a beginner). I accidentally stumbled upon your garden/crop tour video and I’m happen to watch backwards so I know that this actually work well. Thanks Kyle!
Clash of Clans Loot Wars that’s exactly it! People sometimes comment a say that it seems like too much work or suggest “easier” options, but the planning and preparation up from pays off exponentially in the future.
Every year I tweak the system I have, by no means professional, to try to make it work better since we are away at our cottage for weeks at a time during the summer, but I still want gardens at home. Thanks for more ideas on how to make it work.
Really enjoying your videos!! We live on 2 acres and the garden will be all the way at the back of the property and the spickets/well are all the way in the front of the property. Any recomendations how to get the water from the house to the garden so I could install something like this??
Your video is the best one I have every seen for installing a irrigation system. I wonder if you can update the performance of the Dripline Header Spacing Coil. Would you recommend this one or a normal tubing if I am going to diy a irrigation system for my garden this year? Thank you.
Hi I’m new to gardening and your video was very informative. I noticed you planted your food but it doesn’t look like you started from seeds. How does this irrigation works when you’re starting with seeds?
Hi, thank you. I do direct sow some crops, and otherwise I start all of my plants from seed on my grow rack (which I have two videos on) then I transplant here. It works well for seeds, depending on your seed spacing
First time watcher here! Liked & subscribed as I found your video & commentary very helpful. You explain everything succinctly & clearly. Further, you also offer to answer questions. I appreciate it very much! Thank you! I do have a question about cost: how much did it approximately cost for your system? I do understand it will differ based on various factors. I just want to get a rough estimate. Thank you!!
Logi9405 hi, thank you so much for taking the time to share your feedback! As for material cost I actually have links to each component in the video description so that you can use those to estimate cost for your project. I don’t recall exactly what I spend, but I hold this is helpful.
Thank you for the video Kyle! It was very informative. I have a patch of space that I plan on turning into a garden just like yours. Would you be able to share the spacing of your plant beds and spacing in between? Single for tomato plants and double?
As always your content is so helpful! I noticed when you flooded out the line, some of the outlets further away from the water source had much lower pressure. Did you notice any issues with less moisture at the furthest beds? I’m planning to set up something very similar but am considering doing a looped system to help maintain more even pressure throughout the distribution line. Love your instagram and now YT content!!
Stephanie Chow thank you! That’s pretty much always going to happen and depending on the system pressure and total length of hope it could eventually become a problem, but for this setup there was plenty of pressure and it all evens out once it’s all hooked up.
When it's connected with the drip line, the flow rate is much smaller comparing to the flush flow rate, and the pressure drop is much less, so there shouldn't be a big problem, unless the line is too long.
Though you explained everything very clearly, I don't think I could do this 😅 I am so un-handy it's not even funny! I'd probably destroy something. Its a great idea though
Liked everything except the crimp-n-tape! Tape will dry out and come loose. Also, hopefully dirt doesn't get into the irrigation line through the dripper holes.
Thank you Curt, and thank you for sharing that feedback. It sounds like you must have had a bad experience with crimping and taping this way. What type of tale where you using that dried up and came loose? I’ve been doing this for 10+ years and haven’t had a single issue with it when using electronic tape, but I’m definitely interested in learning more from your experience. As far as the dirt getting in - this particular emitter line is designed so that it can be completely buried as sub-surface irrigation, so that won’t be an issue. Thank you so much for sharing your concerns, I hope I was able to address them for you. Happy gardening.
This was awesome and you make it super easy to understand! My vegetable garden won’t be this big when my house is finished being built. Would you still recommend this type of irrigation for a much smaller garden? I am a new subscriber so maybe I’ll just go back through your old videos.
Yeah that's all good, hand watering is nice when you have the time and it help get you out in the garden so you're always around to check on things. Hand watering is just no linger an option for me with my scale and work schedule etc. It can certainly be expensive but if you save up for quality products they will last many years. Happy Gardening
John gulbarga hi, in this garden we will probably end up using about 500 gallons a week for this 700 square foot garden. There are about 500 emitters flowing twice a week for 30 min, each .5gph emitters. We have clay soil and irrigation schedules depend a lot on soil composition.
Super good video, thank you so much! How do you compare this watering system to the drip hose you also have a video about? is the "drip every 33cm" an disadvantage to the more even dripping a drip hose gives you? I'm considering also using the system you mentioned in this video as a baseline so I can add sprinklers etc later on if I need them.
Thank you so much! great question - I've been using drip in garden beds for the past 6 years and it works great, but I'm always experimenting to find better ways. I think the emitter line will be more durable and will provide more constant irrigation for each plant. for starting shallow sown seeds the soaker hose does a better job of watering that top 1 inch of soil
@@urbanfarmstead Thanks for the input! Right now we usually pre-grow our veggie plants so we don't have seeds directly into the garden beds. I think I'll be going with the drip line then and might add some sprinklers to it later on.
Yes I have a question, can you come help me set mine up 😂 I’m excited to get started! I bought all the supplies except my hardware store only had a kit for soaker hose, it was about 30$ for the kit so for it being pretty inexpensive I figured I would try it out and if I am not satisfied then I will buy drip tubing
Victoria Bryce you got this! Soaker hose is great too! I’ve been using soaker hose in our other raised beds for the last six years and they work very well. I’m actually posting a video soon about a simple auto irrigation system that I’m installing in a separate bed using soaker hose.
Victoria Bryce LOL I am thinking of either soaker hose or adapting this kit if possible. I don’t have irrigation near one of the gardening beds so I use the old hand water/buried water jug method. I want to attach the hose and walk away while the soaker hose handles business! Until I can rework all of my raised beds, I think soakers are my future lol
Caryl Rose I absolutely love using soaker hose. I’m actually putting together a video right now showing how I set up soaker hose fir one of our beds in our new garden. It should be posted Sunday.
Is it a hassle to take them away each growing season before you till your garden for planting? I want to do this too but I'm wondering if there's a permanent way
Do you need to have a pressure-reducing component on the zone? I have an unused sprinkler head near my garden and would love to do this, but is the pressure from the rest of the zone which is watering grass an issue?
doubleflatted8 that’s situation dependent. Depends on you total system pressure minus the total friction loss in the system attached to a single valve, then weather or not it will fall into the allowable pressure range for the specific products you are using. For me, I do not need a pressure reducer because it’s a large area and these hoses function well in a wide pressure range.
Wow. This is great informational video. I have a bog on greenhouse gardening and I was planning to write article on drip irrigation system. Do you mind if I use screenshots from your video in my blog. I also want to embed your RU-vid video in the blog. Will you allow me to use it?
Yasinzaii hey, thank you so much! You’re welcome to use all the screenshots you’d like as long as your post credit with them, and same goes for embedded video. Thank you for asking, and fir sharing! I also have one shot of this system up on my Instagram page that you’re welcome to use if you’d like. Take care!
@@urbanfarmstead Hi Kyle, I have just finished writing the article, I have given credit to you for the video and screenshots. It would be nice if you can mention my article in your description if you dont want to then its ok :). have a look at the article, I hope that you will like it greenhouseplanter.com/diy-greenhouse-drip-irrigation-system-diy-greenhouse-watering/
Yasinzaii hey thanks! Looks good at a glance, and I look forward to sitting down an reading it later. After I read it as long as it seem like something I want to share with my audience in the description I’ll definitely add the link, and possibly share it in IG stories as well!
It crates better/more consistent flow compared to dead end lines and eliminates the need to cap the ents so it’s less parts and less labor. Basically a win-win-win.
Hello, A friend watching with me said it's against code to run the emitters in a loop that can reintroduce water into the main water line. have you ever heard about this?
Hello Eileen, thank you for asking, but with all due respect, your friend is completely incorrect and not only is the statement false, it’s also ridiculous. Happy gardening
You're scaring me. You put the teflon tape on backwards, you're holding the pliers backwards..., but if even a klutz like you can install it, maybe it's a good system.
I can imagine how much time and efforts you are taking to make this informative videos, great job man, may you get all the success you desire and atleast a Billion $ubscribes to your channel ❤️ 🙏
Hello from India.....I also grown some vegetables and plants on my roof top...as I don't have much space ...I have seen a lot of videos of the same content but the way you have described everything is very good...just keep up doing the good work and upload more videos frequently
I am a beginner, in Iran. I have recently bought a new property for my horses & I would like to grow every kind of vegetables. I truly need to thank u for ur videos. U have been a HUGE help.
When you add compost through the season do you just cover the irrigation? Or always keep the hoses exposed? Thanks! This is probably one of the most educational channels for the specific questions I tend to have!!
Jessica Clark great question! This specific hose and most of the irrigation hoses I’ve used are designed to be covered in soil or mulch and I actually feeder them slightly covered because it protects them from UV and keeps them out of sight.
I am straight from the city and always took for granted all the labor that goes into growing vegetables. Now I live in the country and thanks to your videos I have found the inspiration I need to start growing my own produce! You are gifted with so much true knowledge unlike me who was trained to survive only in the city 😔.
Over all this system works perfectly for this type of garden and I wouldn’t change a thing. I did however just build 8 new raised beds and will be sharing a tutorial for my new irrigation system in those beds. Im using 1/4 inch drip line with emitters every 6” for that space
Thanks for the video Kyle! Great content as always. Quick question, what made you choose the emitter piping over something like a soaker hose? Also, if you could add a link to your video on how you set up the initial pipework for your irrigation system as you mention at the start that would be awesome!
Thank you! I did used soaker hose in our last garden and it's still working perfectly for those beds going on 6 years now with the same hoses. I still like using soaker hose and actually installer one in our new garden just last week, but as I said in the beginning of this video, I'm constantly adapting my irrigation, looking for any little improvements I can find. I think this emitter hose will have a bit more even/measurable flow and will last longer. This being my first time using it I can't say for sure yet. Thank you for that question! In the description I included a link to a 2 part irrigation video on IGTV I made last year that should help to explain that process, but I'm also working on a video all about this irrigation system but it will be a couple of weeks before that is complete. Once it is I'll link it to the end screen. Happy gardening!
Hi! I am looking to instal a similar system for 12 garden beds from one valve. I know that certain vegetables need more water than others. Do you use the same amount of water for all of your vegetables? Do you recommend my beds be on different valves?
Hi, you certainly could use multiple valves for your beds, but I use one valve for all beds with a shut off valve to each bed in my new raised beds. I find all of my summer crops do well with watering once every 4 days here in Sacramento in summer
@@urbanfarmstead Thank you for the reply! I am leaning more towards a shut off valve for each bed for ease. Since everything is on the same valve, you're having to water all of the beds in the same way. How do you account for plants that require different amounts of water such as tomatoes and peppers? I am in Sacramento too :)
Our city sells compost. Not sure if I like the sound of it though. Resource Recovery Compost is a wastewater biosolids (sludge) product of the City City Water Utility which has been processed in a manner that meets all the current U.S. EPA and State Environmental Quality (ODEQ) requirements for Class A Resource Recovery Compost. What do you think? Good to use or not? Especially with COVID?
Totally loving your tutorials! How wide between rows? How wide are planting rows for trellis & non trellis vegetables? You planting soil looked outstanding. Are you using a soil/compost mix or a preferred top soil product? What are you using between rows to walk on ? Thanks!!!
Awesome video Kyle, I'm absolutely loving the way your garden is turning out, it looks very efficient. But, I have one critique...not regarding your garden, but with you. I noticed that when you are talking to the camera, you sway a lot, for example from 8:49 - onward. It really isn't a big deal, but I'm a consultant for businesses looking to enhance their image, marketable appeal on social media, presenting & directing TV commercials, creating efficiency thru organization, designing the best floor layout for companies that need help when they've just purchased a new facility/office space, etc. When you're standing in one spot you tend to shift your weight from one foot to the other. I don't know if you have a cameraman assisting with your recordings or not, from watching your videos it doesn't look like you do. One of the basic fundamental rules for shooting a person in a TV commercial or recording the host of a tv show, game show or daytime tv show, is training the host to stand flat footed in one spot when talking to the camera. Because swaying from one foot to the other while being recorded creates an unwarranted subconscious impulse response from the cameraman to sway as well to follow the movement of the person they're recording. This can create vertigo, dizziness or a distraction for the people watching the show. So when your standing up talking to the camera try not to shifting your weigh from one foot to the other. Just an observation and constructive criticism.
Hi! Thank you so much for taking the time to share this experience based feedback! As a new RU-vid creator I really appreciate your advice and will absolutely work on this!
Anita Beach thank you! I have done idea, but I feel like that a complicated system to describe in a comment. I have seen a couple videos here showing some different options, so I think if you do a bit of searching you’ll find some good stuff to get you started.
Hey Kyle, love your videos. It reaches into the low 90’s pretty regularly. Is 60 minutes twice a week still the recommendation? Good draining raised bed with tomatoes and peppers. Thank you!!!
Hi, thank you! Yeah, it’s about 100 degrees all week here and I’m still irrigating only twice this week. The same schedule won’t work for everyone, but thus works well for our gardens.
How much stalk do you put in companion planting and/or planting by the moon and/or The Old Farmers Almanack? I have plants that need to go in the ground but the latter says it won't be a good time to plant until about May 1st. Should I wait or go ahead and plant?
Hi, absolutely love this video and I need to replace my irrigation system to something way better, and this it it, I wanted to know where I can purchase or the name of that hose with the swivel connectors, as the link above only shows up a hose with holes rather, thank you
I like to install a shut off valve at the beginning of each emitter line after it tees off the header line. That way i can close off or regulate down the water to a bed as needed per plant needs.
Hey Kyle. I have a pressure regulation question. On the sprinkler you found I noticed you put a pressure regulator on that one. How come? I have risers every 8 feet along a 40 foot fence line and want to convert to drip. Not sure if I need pressure regulators on each riser.
I don’t think the attachment I used is a pressure regulator. This system does not require a pressure regulator because it’s large enough to require full pressure.
Great Channel Kyle! Can’t wait to see the progress of this garden. Do you know the square footage of your backyard that you are growing in as well as what percentage of your yearly produce you grow yourself? Love the content!
Growing Greens With Cam thank you! Our total lot size is just over 8,000 square feet but that also includes our house etc. right now the garden makes up about 700+ square feet. I can’t say what percentage of our produce we’ll be growing but hopefully around 90% once it’s established. Thank you so much!
I had the painful experience figuring out the irrigation pipe layout and debugging problematic sprinkler heads left by the previous home owner, and luckily there was no leakage underground. And what's the conversion kit you used at 4:00? I didn't find it in your links.
like Planting every year I do a lots of seedling but my husband doesn't know how to do like that, we bought raised bed but he doesn't even care he put on top of the grass I said to him just remove the grass but he said its fine.i think I have him to remove the grass if it grow inside the wood box make him suffer because he won't listen to me I just want a NICE GARDEN VEGETABLE
Depending on the type of grass you put the raised bed on it might be perfectly fine like that. If you have invasive weeds in the grass like we do you will probably want to remove the grass first, otherwise you'll be pulling weeds constantly.
Hmmm, I recommend checking your local irrigation supply store. They sell them at a few local stores here in Sacramento. Otherwise you could just use 5/8 with T fittings
@@urbanfarmstead I found it! Thank you for this. I spend a good 30 mins to an hour watering plants 2-3 times a week and just expanded with a greenhouse
Well spoken sir, funny how these dweeby pale scrawny nerds make a utube account with same vids as yours but they get paid 6figures a year to do so.. cursed world!! This man's way better than the
Haha, thank you. I'm just grateful for the opportunity to help others to enjoy growing their own food as much as I do, so if my channel becomes popular that will just give me even more opportunities to do so. Thank you for your support!
How many total feet would you say you have on that system? I have a 90 foot stretch with bushes and trees and have one emitter line running along it, I'm wondering if I need to loop it back and have it double up but wasn't sure if 180 ft is too much for a 3/4"sprinkler line.
I have almost exactly 500 feet of emitter line. There are different variables that will affect flow, and the main factor with a long stretch is that if your supply is only from one end, you may end up with inconstant flow rates along the line.
A closed system, having the water coming from both sides of a drip line is not a good idea. It's better to just close each run so that you can open it periodically for flushing individual lines.
Ethan Schwartz thank you for your suggestion. In some situations that would be a good consideration, but there are a few factors to consider before assuming, and for my situation that would not be necessary, or good. That would mean adding a flush every 10-12feet for a total of about 50 flush points in my 700 square foot garden, which is extremely excessive and unnecessary in my situation on municipal water in an area that does not freeze, among other reasons. I incorporated two flush points, one on either end of the system which is more than enough for this my garden. Again, thank you for your suggestion.
I have a large garden spot, but would like to do the walkway as you show, but what happens at the end of the season, can the wood chips be rototilled back into the garden or does the cardboard or weed sheet need to be pulled out to be replaced next year? Am definately doing the irrigation system?? thank you for your informative videos!!
Hi from Indonesia, I Like Your video, but my English not so good, do you mind to write what tools we need for irrigation? Coz you talk so fast 😚😚😚 thank you
Cemerlanglang Miss hi, thank you so much! I’m sorry it’s difficult to understand - I’m hoping to learn how to add subtitles to my videos soon but I’m still new to all of this. All of the irrigation supplies are linked in the description, but if you have more questions about them I’m happy to help explain whatever I can. Thank you!
Great video. I searched the comments but couldn’t find my answer. Does this type of system have have a pressure regulator installed like other drip systems or is it full pressure?
First I want to thank you for taking the time to search for the answer! I do not have a pressure reducer because I need full pressure for this large space. A smaller space might benefit from a pressure reducer, just depends on your supply pressure and the demands of your system.
Hello sir, what did you spread in between the irrigated soils? Earlier when you were preparing the soil they looked different. Now it seems you have covered the unused soil with something. What's that? And thanks for this amazing vlog🙂
Hi! Love your videos! I am very new and because of the layout of my yard. I have to put a small garden on the side of the house and about 1/2 of the back yard which is not all that large. I live in Hemet, CA down here by Palm Springs and I just lost most of my plants that were growing really well until we had that heatwave and the high triple digits just melted the plants what can I do to safe guard them in the future? Thank you in advance for your help .
K Callier hi, sorry to hear about you plants. We expected that sand heatwave here with a record number of days over 100 and up to 112 last month and I’m happy to say that our garden looks as healthy as it did before the heatwave. How?- I share the some details of that in my Instagram highlights labels “heatwave” but it’s a combination of many thins I do in setting up our garden and soil, all of which I have shared in the videos I have posted here this spring and summer. One way I make our plants heatwave resistant is by only watering two days a week which I continued even during the sweltering heatwave
I tried to find the video about converting the Sprinker head for drip irrigation but could not find it, i want to use the one of the unused sprinkler head for drip irrigation
A vegetable gardener novice here. How does this sort of irrigation system do in the Winter months? Any problems with busted hoses in freezing conditions?
Bill & Vivian Maddox great question. It’s always best to drain your irrigation system before the first fall freeze. Soaker hose holds no water when the system is off so there is no need to drain it.
Two main reasons are that it’s more affordable and easier because there is no cutting or extra parts like end caps, but mostly it results in more consistent flow. You never want deadens lines if you can avoid it
