This video shows several different types of watering systems that I use and have used for our vegetable gardens, raised beds, and fruit trees. I also give a demonstration and explanation of assembling a watering system for a small greenhouse to water seedlings automatically.
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So with you with the impact sprinkler after tubing being so challenging on my hands .. even with gloves… and I love my Dad’s old garden sprinkler (which is metal … so no plastic either)!! Would like to work on the idea of ‘channel’ irrigation on a small scale compared with farm versions but using gravity somehow… more like the Nam irrigation you showed for your pest video and ducks!! Actually maybe the ducks would like it!! Creating moats to stop ants even! Just a thought!! After being in the fires in Victoria I am very glad for the extra water blowing onto the green lawn my brother had around the veggie gardens and therefore a barrier for the house!! We survived needless to say!!! PS: glad to have found your down to earth videos! I am still catching up on many years of your helpful tips! Cheers from Cairns!
Too funny ! One wasp sting haha, they always go for the eyes, we use to each have a board/stick and nock the nest down and then stand there and beat them back, You miss one and they got you between the eyes!!! We didn't go to bed for 12 hours LMAO 🙂
Those little sprinkler heads are notorious for clogging and maintenance to mitigate that you need to set up a simple filtration system that will hold back all those particles that comes with the water, and that will reduce maintenance tremendously
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how big is YOUR garden ?? NICE !!!!!!!!!!! HINT : I HEARD WASP MAKE GREAT COMPOST !!!!
Thank you
If you keep some plantain growing around your gardens, it’s great for stings and cuts. Just crush a bit of the leaf and slap it on the injury. Pain goes away(or at least lessens) almost immediately, and draws the poison out of stings for super fast healing. And by plantain I mean the medicinal herb, not the banana like fruit
I find the misters a huge waist of water, when on take water anyway. I'm going to look at sprinklers that dribble water out up to a few centimeters.
Edit: those Asian wasps. I don't like them for when I try to have Monarch Butterflies but they eat up other caterpillars. I might try swan plats in doors, move then out side till they get eggs and bring them inside.
I’ve been hanging out here for a bit, and have learned a great deal. I just moved to a new property and have so much sand. I live in New Mexico and our environment is similar to yours. I’ve got to address the established drip system and I can’t stand the skinny drip lines either. Now I’m on a well and I know they would just be completely plugged up. This information was great. And I have been inspired to address the current system and the food garden going in this Spring. Chickens and a truck full of mulch are this weeks projects. First, I have to scrounge in my sprinkler parts and head out to the succulents and iris’.
Thank you, sir.
lol love the ending… Go get them Buggers!!
Video was exhausting Mark
Definitely stepped up but jeez, it could have waited. Small garden and I hand water. Wasps….kill kill kill. Feel better. Oral antihistamines next time plus the topical.
Thanks for the advise to hand water my garden. You are the greatest!
Appreciate the video. Question: lets say you wanted to plant vegetables in the area near your orchid where you’ve been using reclaimed waste water…how would you neutralize the soil? I live in a community that has reclaimed water for the installed sprinkler system for the grass and was told not to plant vegetables in the yard. Trying to find a way to start a garden other than using pots. Thanks and keep the great videos coming.
I have a gardening irrigation system to look after my garden as I travel away from home often. Suggestions. 1. Use large diameter 25mm diameter poly tubing. 2. Don't put terminators at the end of each run, instead place a tap so you can flush the pipes say every month. 3. Small sprinklers get blocked, yes use impact sprinklers. The end result is a much more reliable system that I have more certainty in especially when I'm away from home
I have just a little varanda whats Ur advice so I can grow vegies
Aw poor wasps! I just hose them away then pull off the comb. Band the poisons 🙂
Hi Mark. I've read a bit about tomatoes not liking having their leaves wetted too much. What's your experience with that?
This video was helpful and I like your "payback" outro.
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Great info Mark, you are the best & great to see Wifie Too!!!!!
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Mate I like your honesty with gardening it can be more trouble than you can emagin but we try any way watering is defiantly a nightmare
Good videos mate learning alot
What about tomatoes, l always have watered underneath, not over the top unless it rains as everything seems to come alive when it rains
Antihistamines buddy
Nooooo! Bob is not my aunty, he is my uncle.
Do you know how to set up a watering system for low pressure, like water from rain barrels?