Almost everywhere across the USA is facing some kind of water shortage. Here in California, it’s hit every single city besides San Diego. Whether it’s a huge issue in your garden to water your garden in as efficient a manner as possible. @Jacques in the Garden and Kevin share a few tips they use to combat low-water environments.
00:00 – Intro
00:19 – Drip Irrigation
01:26 – Passive Irrigation
05:19 – Planting Close Together
06:08 – Mulching
07:52 – Transplanting & Bottom Watering
09:54 – Water Collection System
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Not me watching in the middle of the Midwestern storm season.
No water shortage in the 4 states I frequent, not sure where you heard that.
great and timely vid! we're in a multiyear severe drought here in new mexico. i've been watering via drip under thick straw mulch for years and it really saves a ton of money while building the soil. most recently i added a low budget gray water retrofit to the bathtub using a siphon hand pump for a 55 gallon barrel attached to tubing connected to a pvc pipe through the wall that goes to two 1/2" drip feeder tubes that i can move around in an area with fruit trees. it works great and cost around $40 to make.
Figured California would be one of those places where they'd make it illegal to collect rainwater especially in that quantity. Why? Well California does a lot of bone headed things like that. Don't know what's so bad about collecting rainwater on your own property
Your fence is awesome!
I thought collecting rainwater was illegal in most areas in Southern California? I suggested it to a friend of mine and they said it wasn't permitted.
Such excellent ideas, and that tank! Oh my! It's a beauty!
Very timely video! I’m already using olla but I definitely need to mulch more!
Save water, drink beer.
lol jk. I am excited for this season I have like 20+ tomato plants growing and some of them are already growing little tomatoes. Should I cut those off??
that olla got me saying ohno to anthropomorphic irrigation
I'm collecting a small amount of rainwater and I'm mulching all my raised beds… but here in New England water is not a problem. I liked the idea with the clay pots and I'll try the straw mulch you're using.
I want to be more conservative but installing solar panels would take 10 plus years to pay for itself and I don't really want to mess with 25 year old roof that is suppose to 50 years. Probably pay 100 dollars a year for water just for the house and and another 100 to 200 a year for my lawn and garden. 1300 Sq ft ranch house. 8000 sq lot. In the Atlanta area with 50 inches of annual rainfall.
Straw also holds water well.
You can easily, and cheaply, create your own ollas by gluing two clay pots together (gorilla glue) top to top, then gluing a small clay tray on one end. I have been using ollas like these for decades.
Also water early morning for less evaporation, which saves water. I been getting my mulch for free at the Miramar Greenery. 2-3" layer 2-3 times per year is my motto. LIving mulch works great as well. I combine the 2 techniques for added effect and cut my watering in half or more. No sunlight is hitting the dirt/ground if you fill in every square inch with plants.
I rent in a condo complex, so gray water system isn't really something I can do. But the closest thing i do is I actually collect all water I used to wash/rinse veggies and what not in a large bowl and use that to fill my bottom watering pots/ollas/directly water my plants.
A poor man's olla: Take a few Bush's Baked Bean cans and use a de-header style opener on them. Once they are rinsed out, use a church key (that's a bottle opener/can piercer to you younger folks) to pierce a few evenly spaced, small holes around the bottom. Put them in your beds, add water, and put the can head back on. Put mulch or straw over it if you like. It works well in clay soil like here in
BFENortheast Ohio.How do you spell oylla?
Perfect timing. I have irrigation and use DIY ollas but I’m reminded that I haven’t fully mulched. I’m in NorCal (Bay Area) and the drought is pretty severe. I also put a 5 gallon Lowe’s bucket in my shower to capture water as it’s warming up. That water gets used to water parts of my garden, usually containers.
I’ve been looking at ways to add rainwater collection and grey water reclamation. Thanks for the information!
Such a great video! And so important for the current time. Thank you for all the tips and info!
I'm in southern Arizona and use terracotta plant spikes to water a lot of my plants. I've also made small ollas using cheap terracotta pots and saucers with a river rock to keep the mosquitos out. I live in an apartment with all grow bags. I also use shade cloth to help keep moisture in the soil while shielding the plants from the ridiculous AZ sun. It's already set to be another record breaking hot and dry summer well above 105 every day.
I've had too much, rain my plants are NOT happy.
The pipes were, I read, used by the Israelis in the old days but I thought their pipes were under the topsoil?
Rain water collection was illegal where I used to live in Colorado. But I rented so I couldn’t have put a system in if I wanted.
Bro we are getting to much rain lmao