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We are in a solar maximum. And have been in one for a few years now and we have a couple more years to go. I have noticed that my full sun plants are getting a "sun burn" due to what I believe the sun being more active than when we are in a solar minimum. I believe that the solar maximum is affecting the hurricane low count and the lack of rain in some areas. The weather experts don't take the sun's influence on earth's weather. Imo!!!
Grand solar minimum
@@jacobspranger1267 Solar max
Pivoting to indoor/ underground is inevitable.
Check out the Spörer Minimum (1460-1550 AD),
the Maunder Minimum (1645-1715 AD),
and the Dalton Minimum (1790-1820 AD).
Great potatoe famine
Can’t wait. Sucks all that work but understood.
I’d like to see your rain catchment, reservoir, pump system and installation.
Thanks
sounds good my friend we can do that thank you!
SAME!! Here in Chitown it didn't rain as much this summer and I need to start collecting rain. Plus our city water is TRASH.
Here in North Scotland we have had all of your rain, so sad. What we lack is sunshine, the cloud cover is unbelievable, a fantastic sunrise quickly becomes an overcast cold dark place in a few hours most days, my soil drains well, thankfuly. I hedge my bets, grow mostly the old school food that our ancestors grew. This year all of those potatoes, onions, garlic, leeks,cabbage, beets, swedes ,carrots,beans, and more have done well. I have 40 pounds of storable potatoes and 200 onions etc set back. That is the good old faithful stuff.
The other stuff , not so good, tomatoes even in low tunnels are only now setting fruits, egg plant, peppers, just not going anywhere. Zuccini are doing ok outside.? Cukes are going well in the low tunnel, harvesing about 6 good fruits per week. We have native berries here, totally wild. I have harvested a lot and made jam. The yellow ones are small, but are super sweet, the red ones are similar but larger. I mix them for jam, gives a nice color. Winter harvesting should be great. green and red cabbages are tightening up, swedes are bulbing, leeks are growing taller, I succesion planted 300 leeks in 4 stages. We have to adapt to our environment to survive as our forebears did, I dug up a grain grindstone in my ground, interesting as 2 are normally required. Just created a 30 by 3 ft raised bed, some parts will have poly hoop covers probably half of the bed. Filling it now with hugel stuff, tree bark and sawdust from my firewood processing and garden harvest waste etc. Made a pot of runner bean and potato soup today, onion, garlic and chicken stock. Cost me nothing, last 2 meals.
As the B/s increases make your gardens keep pace. It is not a rehearsal.
Very busy, but make sure you leave some time free for the great haggis shoot.
Central UK here. Same!!!! Prioritised basic essentials. Even restarted growing storing carrots in ground again but still use buckets to pop outside the kitchen door for the occasional single fresh carrot for recipes during winter to save messing about in the carrot storage bin.
Harvested and dried all the fair weather herbs we need for two years in the spring. If the summer extras like legumes, squashes, cucumbers, tomatoes - for fresh and processing- etc (outdoors or under cover) do well…. it’s a bonus. Too many factors have been affecting our gardens in the northern hemisphere in recent years. Concentrating on staples and unexpected abundances is the way forward. We also have enough staples to last a year, loads of saved seeds, and ALWAYS keep the beds full for fresh eating after the staples are lifted. Overwintering beds are already - or some will soon be - full of brassicas, leeks, fennel, spinach, garlic, parsnips, swedes, beets, winter salads, early spring harvestable brassicas, etc then there’s the perennials. What survives, survives. Topping up beds with compost already done or ready and waiting to as beds are flipped. Tbh, it’s the compost making that takes most of the time. The other factor is keeping enough space set aside for next year’s staples. We tend to sacrifice potato/onion/garlic space for less essential “staples”, IMHO. I think families prefer rice, pasta and bread rather than spend time preparing potatoes. But our family love potatoes and having enough stored for eating every day for a year is a great feeling and worth the effort and space, IMHO.
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I live in the land in Pennsylvania that was one time productive farmland that was turned into a housing development. The land developers strip the topsoil off and only put the minimal of one to 2 inches of topsoil. Enough for lawn. We are lucky to have an annual rainfall of over 40 inches sometimes over 50 inches. However, a few weeks without rain in June and July and the lawn will turn Brown. Underneath lies clay as far as one could dig. Therefore transforming a 20‘ x 20‘ plot of land into a garden took years develop. And still, the soil will clump together as there is no fine, gravel, dust or sand. Composting this garden is not enough, but it has been OK.
The big problem is young Plant growth. Roots just can’t seem to get a established in the harder clay areas. But most plants do OK with time w/exception of cucumbers.
Our garden season here for the most part end in September . And then we begin to face frost and freezes by then. If we don’t get a freeze until November, our broccoli and kale will do well. The garden is closed for business from November till early May. But some years nothing thrives till June because it’s too cold and wet.
I’m from central Indiana and the best thing that we did in our raised bed gardens was to line the bottom with small to medium sized logs. This has helped retain moisture and has made a tremendous difference this past year. I had installed drip lines as well and have only had to turn them on a handful of times this year. Best of luck redoing your garden beds.
That’s really interesting
I have mulberry trees here in Australia
I use a layer of dropped sticks in my composting bays as woody layers
Helps to keep the whole thing aerated and I guess possibly retain moisture
Aw man that’s a big task. Something to say about being capable of dynamic change in the face of these challenges. I am currently moving to a new house that I will own, so this is actually very fitting for me. Lots of garden design ideas, passive watering strategies going on! I look forward to seeing these changes you are making!
well is good u are paying attention...when i noticed the changes and how the seasons were coming late and late i was told that i was crazy (9 years ago)...now people started to notice those changes. Here in Houston we have more rain in between hot and dry short periods...seems like we did not have summer this year. However the sun burn plants and humidity are taking down many plants...so i need to change things so as well like you i am taking down all my garden beds and doing a new set up and planing to have shade and drip irrigation...for next year.
Viking please be sure to call 811 there in your state before your till the whole thing. Some utilities can be pretty shallow in the soil, better safe than sorry my friend!
great point thank you!
Mulch and water retaining soil additives are helpful, as is shade cloth. A drip irrigation system is next level goodness but it's a lot of work , I'm sure it will be worth it when you're running smoothly next season. Best of luck
I feel you. Here in the Caribbean, I have to refurbish the garden at least three times a year to the accommodate the volatile climatic conditions.
Here in NY I have the opposite problem - too much rain in spirts - so much mildew and fungal issues. I did put drip it in my raised beds and it ROCKS!!
We have that problem in Georgia some years. I prefer droughts and just irrigate, mold sucks.
@@billwilson3665 It does!!
Here in Grand Rapids Michigan, we installed drip depot irrigation in our 3,500 sq ft garden last year. Well worth the investment. We also store 3,500 gallons of rain water in underground tanks and above ground barrels. A good down pour can fill the entire system in one hour. Rain is definitely less frequent, but with heavy mulch, our system keeps all the plants at the perfect moisture level and thriving.
One thing I was also mulling over in my head, was thermal mass, microclimates, and custom shaped large water tanks for house and garden integrated into the design of the garden. Like technically it dosent matter the odd snake like shape of a tank as long as the floor is leaning towards the hole the water gets pumped out of from. And my thought was, maybe we could build a sort of mud wall with mix of dirt and concrete and seal w it h bentonite clay or some other material and have it store water all throughout the garden. Like imagine digging it into the paths kinda. I’m still mulling this over and it be work but it be interesting to find a way to simulate how well it would work
I’m back to see part two!!! 😂
I want to see the whole process!!
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Be careful of too much city water, its killed my seedlings and some plants due to high chlorine level. I capture massive rain in spring and use for drip irrigation. Using my roof I can capture a few hundred gallons from only a hour of rain and that can last during the dry weeks!
I live right on the border of Utah and Colorado. It is the desert here and the only way to go is raised bed. I mix my own soil and use hydroponics nutrients for soil watering. It works wonders!
Not sure your plan but I learned that by filling my deep tubs/beds with chunks of wood, then unfinished compost and pea /bean vines before putting soil in has helped immensely during our rather dry July-Aug in the far North Pacific NW. I was working on a bed recently and though we had very little rain for 45 days I had wood in the bottom like a sponge...holding water. Definitely see it helping in my tomato and cucumber beds during times we had forest fires and couldn't get out to water even briefly. Not a true Hügelkultur bed, but similar. I'm very happy with it an am saving all pruning of branches to add to more raised. beds.
The same issue on Long Island NY. We've been dealing with drought summer's the last 4-5 years. All I do is water my garden. Not only are the plants stressed, but the deer have become aggressive. What replant sprays I used in the past appear to be useless. They devastated my garden. I have no choice to cut back my gardening next year.
7ft. Fence helps alot.
@@SCOTTBULGRIN I agree the only sure way is a physical barrier. I was thinking 8ft to be sure. They jump over 6ft fences as if it was nothing.
I am very excited about the new garden you are creating and hope to learn something that I can apply to my garden! 🌷
I know this situation very well. This year is the first time I've had water in the well at the end of August in years! Usually it was empty at the beginning of July and we had to rely on our neighbor and his deep well for 2 months. This year we dug the hole for our cistern. It can hold about 85 cubic meters of water. It's not finished yet, but it holds a good amount of water because it's made of clay. We can fill it up in winter and then have more than enough for 2 to 3 months to get through the dry summer.
Will be interesting to watch the transformation. 👍👍👍
I feel your pain. Here where I'm at in AZ, we've had maybe 3 inches of rain ALL summer. I'm constantly watering because the temps are also insane. Poor plants are doing their best, I'm grateful for every tomato, zucchini and cucumber, lol.
Me too! I'm in northern AZ, we got one really good down pour and a few scattered ones. Ugh my water bill is $150 a month.
@valthatcher1235 OH, wow! That's insane! Thankfully, we have a well. It still drives up our electric bill, but we don't have the separate water bill.
Look into dry farming too
Watering drip line videos greatly needed
To use less of water, you need trees to create shade
Here I grow Sunflowers near of a salad crop or other shade crops it work well it protect from the rain or wind
I have my sunflowers seed, shade and less water
Very soon we will pay the Public water
In Egypt they put OYA in the soil
Here in Quebec Canada I put clay pot in the soil in my homemade greenhouse at each side I put bucket with homemade irrigation sytem
I put rain water in the bucket its drop in the OYA and the soil keep moist the roots find the water under the ground
I stopped growing in ground a few years ago. Everything is in a raised bed. I actually do wicking buckets and wicking raised beds. Drip irrigation is part of that along with water, catchment off of our high tunnel and other roofs.
Here in Santa Teresa NM next to El Paso TX. Our monsoon season is dry. We are a desert as it is. I think I'll be doing the same. Revamp time. Thank you for your experiences!!!
MO gardener here, and i feel you on the drying of the region's climate. I'm a bit surprised you're doing raised beds rather than waffle setups if you're trying to conserve water. I'm hoping to dig out my raised bed this winter to encourage water to pool into mulch-filled sunken paths rather than draining off into the lawn.
Yes. Hugel beds to catch water. Small berms and swales added in.
This is the first year in 30 years I had to water my plants to keep them alive and the yield sucks. Here in Western Pa we have not needed to. In fact 4 years ago it rains so much it killed my tomatoes so I was hilling and planting the hi ground. This year thank God I did not. Next year I will be using a plastic layer with drip like my Garlic which works wonderfully. I will do everything in plastic now and have a weed free bonus
So the best is yet to come!
2022 we had to water every day in Germany. I used green nets to shelter the the salads and asian veggies.
Not everything needed water every day. I sprayed water in the evening like a short rain only wetting the leaves to refresh the plants and cool them.
Fertilised them with the sprayer like you recommended.
Bought dripplines but did not use them this year.
I just ordered some drip line supplies from Hoss for the same reason you cited so I will be revamping my garden and watching your changes as well.
👍💪 Inspirational content on some of our best human qualities - Adapt and overcome! As always Nate, your wisdom, enthusiasm and caring nature provide the best example for the rest of us!
One particular downside of container gardening may be that if allowed to dry out completely, this will perhaps kill most of the beneficial soil bacteria within the container - the microbes can't go further underground to survive.
Thus, rewatering the container doesn't immediately revive its soil microbiome, which could perhaps take months to return to a healthy state even with maintaining watering/feeding thereafter?
Sinking containers 6 inches into the ground may provide some help to prevent total evaporation.
I think we don’t train the plants enough because we try to space out the watering, but then we don’t water to saturation when we water. If you water less but when you do water you water to saturation, your plants learn to grow in ways that they can go longer without water. But when you water infrequently, then also don’t water to saturation, then you have a problem.
I hope you don't mind if I ask a question, so you should not water your plants everyday? Do you gradually extend the amount of time that you're not watering but then when you do water like you said water to saturation?
thats for sure the right philosophy my friend and thats what I practice but that works only to a point... when its just week after week of blazing sun and bone dry with high winds it doesn't matter what you've trained the plants to do they can't thrive... not even the grass and weeds are thriving!!
@@gardenlikeaviking lol true
@@kendrapringle316 Watering every day will make your plants have shallow roots, making them more susceptible to high temperatures and more prone to wind damage. To work out how often you will need to water to saturation, begin with saturation and then wait until the plants start to look a little sad before watering to saturation again. Your watering schedule will depend on the water-holding ability of your soil and choice of mulch so if in doubt use your finger to feel how far below the surface your soil is dry. As the plants grow deeper roots seeking extra moisture the amount of time between watering will change. Days of extreme heat and furnace winds are obviously exceptional circumstances requiring additional watering.
@@crankybanshee3809 this is brilliant! I'm in my first year gardening and I have learned an insane amount, especially from this channel and others who follow this channel. Thank you very much!
I don't think this is a figment of your imagination! I'm in Fort Wayne and as a kid in middle school and highschool I cannot tell you how many summers I remember a great deal of rain. I played football and we loved the rain practices in the summer as we got a relief. Also as a kid I remember many summers volunteering to help fill sandbags when we got torrential rain and the rivers flooded. Same with the amount of snow we used to get, when I was a kid we got way more snow than we have in the past 5-10 years.
had the same issue here in n. idaho. that is why i put 2' of aged arborist wood chips over my entire 1 acre food forest supplemented with volcanic ash. i do not have to water my fruit trees at all and bushes only once a week on super hot periods. i only have to water my regular beds once a week as well except for strawberries beds which get water twice a week. it took a long time to age enough chips to cover the whole place but it was effort that was worth it. rarely do i have weeds, watering is very manageable, and i get excellent results. i stay away from manure from animals i have no control over because of contamination problem. i encourage wildlife all over my chip piles and they add considerable fertility. i also make liquid fertilizer from many plants i grow for that purpose and little "weeds" that volunteer. all this was completely free. it is a lot of work but it is work you do once and reap its rewards for the rest of your life on that property. all you have to do after setup is to continue composting so you can add a few inches of compost on top every year. i am lazy. i am poor. i have to grow most of my food or go hungry. been living on less than $10k/yr for nearly 20yrs this way. each year, i add resiliency and get better yields 🙂
Aged wood chips are great but they will break down after a couple of years from worms & fungal/microbial actions. Thus topping up every 1 or 2 years is a good idea to maintain the beneficial effects they provide.
@@mikeharrington5593 yes, they become humus which is what you want. i built my 1 acre food forest on 4' of the stuff nearly 20yrs ago. every year, i have better fertility and less pests and disease. the 70+ year old apple and pears that were here when i bought the property in early 80's barely gave fruit until i started my soil building with chips. they are completely full of huge juicy fruit now. the topping off has to be done with everything because when you grow food, you are removing nutrients that have to be returned. this is why i have no waste because it is all used to put back nutrients and build the soil. i even use pruned branches to make bio-char which goes right back once activated. it is all a big circle 🙂
@@AlsanPine lot to be said for closing the loop as much as possible
@@nic.h that's what we all are working for 🙂
Perhaps you could take the time to demonstrate the basics of layout and design where you position your garden and why. Expand on why you plant southward etc. thanks❤
Yes I live in Australia and we either have drought or flood
The heat in the north now in our late “ winter “ is now over 40 degrees c
It’s really scary
We all need to work and garden to the conditions
Drip lines are a great idea for my garden
Thank you
I am sorry that you are going through this difficulty. It sucks that you have to rip everything out and start over.
But I am excited for your new adventure and journey. It sounds like you have a really solid plan and know what and how to do what needs to be done.
Best wishes and good luck to you and your new garden!
I would love to see how you set up your water collection and eragation set up. That would make a great video. I have to set up a collection system with a big IBC tote hooked up to the gutters of my house. Best of luck and can't wait to see your new set up.
Me too!!!
Totally understand where your coming from. We had to start with driplines. I am looking forward to seeing how you add the fertiliser to the lines.
Good luck! This makes me consider doing the same with my raised beds. I look forward to the future videos.
I feel for you. I am lucky that for the last two years I have been managing with just a 100 gallon rainwater tank for watering the garden. But in 2022 I had to use the garden hose so much that I worried about the impact on the water bill😢. Good luck with all your garden changes.
This sounds like an exciting adventure! I can’t wait to see the progress. Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge!
You can not entirely count on the weather since it has cycles of thousands of years. The safe bet, regardless of your rain situation currently, is to always plant trees and shrubs into Terra Preta and your annuals in soil rich with terracotta balls and spongewood. Also, add drainage areas beyond what you think you need. This way, you are covered in droughts and monsoons.
I would love to see the spacing for the garden beds, and if spacing would differ if you would like to work in a cattle panel trellis. Also looking forward to seeing the drip irrigation set up, as I also need to set this up for next spring.
Drought and extremely hot weather is happening all over the world. In winter there's no snow and there hasn't been snow for years now.
It makes gardening difficult and very challenging especially container gardening where it turns the soil hydrophobic. (can't absorb or retain water anymore)
We got to upgrade our gardens with hugelculture, add rotten wood in the soil at act like a sponge, add biochar to act like a nutrient sponge, add shade cloths to reduce the sun's intensity, add a ton of mulch and add another layer in mid summer. Plant plants that are resistant to 30-40C weather.
OMG that's going to be a heap of work but agree - KY weather has been similar and growing is suffering. I'D LIKE TO SEE: standardized size/shape beds to make trellis/coverings interchangeable. Varmint controls. High beds for those with bad backs/mobility issues, maximizing vertical growing in small spaces, How to design drip irrigation - what/how many emitters go where when the plants change each cycle, setting up automated, irrigation. Make it look tidy so the neighbors don't complain - no more wild jungles. Integrating perennial berries and a few fruit trees. Space planning for separate administrative areas - - a bench to work on, a place to harden transplants, store nutrients and out of season equipment, greenhouse, composting - it takes space to garden for a worthwhile harvest!! I know it's a long list - but you asked!! I'll be cheering you on.
Yes my friend this is exactly what I was looking for!!... thank you and I'll be taking a screen shot of this comment and addressing everything in its time
@@gardenlikeaviking Maybe you can do a collab with Rachael at Successful Garden Design for a great layout.
Nate you are a natural teacher. Thanks for sharing your nuggets of information. I will be following your undertaking of the new garden.
Perhaps consider a test bed of olla (clay pot) irrigated system? I experimented this year with some of the thirstier plants (tomatoes, cucumbers and melons). Very pleased. Less water needed , no evaporation. Downsides though the pots use up valuable garden space and they need to be dug out before freezing temps.
Nate❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ you did it! So so hape your chanel is so successful!!
Prayers my friend that your new garden will yield you abundance
I feel your pain of not wanting to tear up all that hardworking time invested into your homestead, I recently shared on discord how I had to relocate one of my main gardens luckily all containers.
Thank you Nate I enjoy your factual illustrations… I always come out smarter after your videos.. Ty
I always thought I have the opposite problem in coastal New England. Too much rain, all year long. Humidity above 90% all summer, Causing fungal problems for vegetable gardens and fruit trees. Also the sudden temperature shifts in winter time causing rapid melting of the snow and it rains on top of that, leads to root rot problems for perennials.
Hey Nate. Sad to hear, great to hear. You’re the best❤
Florida is basically a desert for 8 months of the year now too. Irrigating with our hard water is also no help. I gave up in summer, it was just too hot. Good luck for all the hard work ahead! Looking forward to your advice for dry farming :)
Plenty of rain in my patch of ground in Florida
Super excited. This is gonna be awesome. Go git it viking!
Yes, no rain here in north Mississippi for weeks and weeks on the backyard garden. I have several water totes to catch rain water from the roof, but what I have to do now is fill them with the tap water, let the chlorine off-gas, then use the drip tape and timer to distribute it. We really need the rain. Cheers.
Same here - heavy clay, not enough rain in August/September and no manures available - so I'm looking forward to learn from your experience!
Sorry for you having to go through this but cannot wait to watch your process. I'll be moving in April so I'll be starting over myself, so I'll be taking copious notes. I'll need all the ideas I can get. Thanks for all that you do?
I'm in southeastern Wisconsin and have had the same problem with my 4x8 beds drying out and the soil hardening. I read this past week that in order for that size raised bed to get the one inch of rain it needs per week hat it requires 25 gallons of water. Since my garden is small I water with a large sprinkling can. Sooooo each bed requires 10 cans of water! I would love to use drip but since I only use rainwater I would need to pump the water into drip lines. I use rainwater from my roof so I would need to filter it to keep out debris from the roof, I'm hoping your videos will address these problems. Thanks Nate!
My garden has been a disaster too this year. the production is laughable. I am watering and fertilizing just like other years yet nothing is working as normal. I have thought of just letting it go and wait till next year. :( I know we are not the only ones either. I'm in zone 8a Alabama
I thought it was just me. 8b Virginia here. Did all the usual things but my production this year was dismal. Truly puzzling
Sounds like a very good idea! Will be watching
Would you consider wicking beds?
Great video! It seems the entire planet is experiencing somewhat of the same thing. Thanks for sharing Nate!
Definitely want to see the drip line install
That sounds like a massive operation. How about a well and pump? Perhaps not allowed in urban area's. I have one that I put on the sprinkler which gives sufficient water in a radius of 12 meter. No toiling around with driplines.
Aaauuuggghhhh -- same here in south Georgia -- I had to do this same thing last year. Tore out the garden, started over, raised beds. Drip lines a MUST. I will certainly be following you! I found out that I had to do raised beds that touched the earth, used native soil enriched with organic matter.
Thank you for sharing your video. I was feeling a little down concerning my garden. I'm in middle Tennessee and we're in drought. Garden is burned to a crisp, and there ain't no sav'n it. I was thinking I wasn't doing enough even though I'm out there morning and night.. I'm looking forward to seeing what you do and learning from it!
Videos on Cultivating your own, homemade garden compost ~ including what greens & what browns are used, when/how often they're flipped & how they're managed. Thanks VIKING! Garden on bro
definitely that topic is coming!... thank you my friend
I would love to see as much as you are willing to show. Hopefully next year we’ll be at our new acerage and will be starting from scratch. We’re in Western Iowa and also going through years long droughts except for earlier this year.
Reminds me of the years I would take cuttings from my house plants and make new ones. Buy more soil and pots then water them, trim them, and turn them to the sun. Then I moved into a motorhome and threw them in the compost pile.
Right on Nate. Looking forward to the transformation.
Same here in NW. It used to rain in the summer, atleast a few times. lately we haven’t been getting rain almost all the summer! I’m in the process of installing lots of rain barrels as well!
just put a compost toilet at my cabin rather than a straigh outhouse hole....planning on using that compost.. least ill know whats in it as its from me.. and im already using urine as a N source.. guess next step is humanure.. good luck with next garden.. cant wait to hear your thoughts on manure
Hope you did enjoy your tea in the last video . No disturbing sounds. Great. Thank you!
Looking forward to seeing your progress! I was fortunate in Southwestern Ontario. My harden did fairly well compared to last year.
Also pls Nate think of us from your first chanel ❤ miss you and content! You are an inspiration!
Shading bare dirt is important whether via other vegetation, mulch or even cardboard, and/ or from shading overhead. Bare dirt dries out so quickky the begins to wick moiture from surrounding dirt.
It's a good point that dry bare patches wick moisture from further away by absorption & evaporation.
Looking forward to learning from this whole experience. No-till gardening is so popular but for some of us we are forced to till to give our plants a fighting chance.. when you till, we will also get to learn and do away with those mistakes we have been making l❤❤❤❤
No till can be frustrating if your soil is plagued with couch grass as surface weed suppressing fabric/material doesn't kill it. Unfortunately Glyphosate tends to kill the beneficial bacteria which exchange nutrients below ground level so nevertheless small selective treatment may be necessary as a last resort if the such grass with its extensive rhizomes is choking out desired plants.
Wow! So sorry you have to do this Nate. but I would love to see your start to finish. Also installing drip lines. I bought a system last year, but it intimidates me. It didn't really come with instructions.
Your loss is our gain. Again, so sorry.
Southern Maryland, 1 year we are soaked this year irrigation is a must. I have had great success with just a couple orbit t post impact sprinkler and daily timers. Look forward to seeing your solutions
Can’t wait to see your drip line set up. We went with all raised beds and all the hand watering is horrible.
Here in VA we went through years of very little rain, I put in drip irrigation and few years after the rain be ame better but drip is the back up.
I can't wait for this because my husband and I bought some land in MO and I need design help! I would love to hear about irrigation especially and placement too! I just set you to All notifications!
Wonderful I need help here in Little Rock arkansas and will follow you and hopefully implement some of your ideas in my smaller space. Thank youn
I’m really looking forward to your videos of this transformation. I just started putting in Ray beds in the last two months and will be investing in irrigation for them for next year.
I hear you man, I'm in central Wisconsin we had a bad drought last year, this year started good for rain but now it's lagging. I'm on the same page my garden is 30ft x 250ft. Theres no way sprinklers are going to do the job, plus risk running the well dry. It will be helpful seeing what you are going to do and give me some ideas. I'm shutting mine down this year and cover croping soon and will cover crop all next year besides some garlic. Good luck and thanks for the videos.
While it’s sad to hear about the lack of rain in your area and for quite some time by the sounds of it, know that you’re definitely not alone in the weather being drastically different as opposed to even half a decade ago.
Sucks you feel the need to start over but I can honestly say I’m excited to see you document your expertise being put into play with the redoing of your new garden. Looking forward to it!
I appreciate your input and positive energy my friend thank you!
I’m facing a few challenges in my Texas garden right now. This season has been brutal. Hopefully the fall garden will be more productive. Good luck on yo revamp.
Same in Ohio. Also looking into raised beds, so I’m interested in your build and configuration. Deciding whether to keep the yard/volleyball net or devote it to more food. Neighbors are already giving hay to animals b/c there’s no green grass. So frustrating.
Welcome to my world.... I live in Arizona and what you are talking about is what I have deal with since I moved here. Sorry.
27,000 gallons/inch of rain, to the acre, I can get a picture in my head for that.
I spend a lot of money each year for water, and now use dripper-tape and like to soak as much of my land as I can; keeping the soil alive.
Good, I was so jealous of the garden. lol
Looking forward to the adventure we are about to embark on together!!!
I started 3 years ago with my garden, and 2 years ago I did all raised beds with drip irrigation... and a greenhouse because I live in a place with very cold winters and a relatively short hot season.
I till only some of the raised beds when switching the type of plants and refill them with compost and organic fertilizer (made with local goat manure). Summers here are very dry and the sun hits hard because of elevation, but I've been having almost no problems except for the more delicate plants.
Something I would've love doing before starting, was laying out how the raised beds were going to be, instead of improvising while making them with wood during the course of a season. Now I want to do some concentric more artistic layout instead of just a rectangular grid but I will wait some years for the wood of the beds to rot, so I don't have to tear everything apart so soon.
I have a 6,000 sq ft garden in southern Oregon so I feel you on the lack of rain. We are very blessed to have irrigation every 2 weeks, otherwise it would never work. I would be interested to see how you fertigate without your lines clogging up all the time since you don't use commercial synthetic fertilizers. Also rainwater catchment systems.
thank you my friend yes we will be sure to include those topics in the upcoming videos!
Here northeast of Great Lakes we have had blazing hot sun alternating with downpours. The garden was fantastic.
Same in Texas, very little rain just south of Dallas. Same weather pattern for the past three/four years as well.
Great video, as always, thanks; big project for sure!
We are in an extreme drought in south eastern Ohio as well. It’s usually like a rainforest around here it’s crazy.
Your not alone im doing the same. My garden was trashed this year 😢. Nothing did well
Eagerly anticipate this series. Coming from Gran Canaria, I'm very interested, particularly in the design of the raised beds. I can see a fitter viking allready🤣
Linking up drip lines in raised beds. I am in California, and garden only in raised beds and containers mainly due to gophers, but also due to the need to concentrate inputs and water in the growing areas only. However, I struggle to connect the drip irrigation between different raised areas and containers so that I don't need to move my supply hoses between 97 hook ups, and water isn't wasted dripping between planted areas.