Don't Make This Expensive Mistake On Your Raised Beds!
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- Опубликовано: 4 май 2023
- Don't make this mistake with your raised bed garden! I tried to save money and time but I ended up wasting more time and money. I added a drip irrigation system but it turned out to be trash. Now I have to redo everything but I'm doing it the way I should have to begin with. I'm running a faucet to every raised bed in our garden so we have complete control over the entire drip irrigation system.
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For suburbanites like me, the raised bed gardens are for two things. First, because every couple of years I get a decent home-grown tomato or three. The other is, it gives me something to go out and do to keep myself busy.
Also, they still make both the primer AND the glue for PVC in clear, in case you want to eliminate the technicolor effect.
A little tip, PVC will experience degradation from UV light exposure, so it's advised to paint it with an outdoor grade paint to help it from breaking down quicker! Looks good!
Hey Brother, love the channel. You've done some good work. However, I will point out. SCH-20 PVC like you have installed works fine for a limited amount of years. Eventually it will crush if your not careful about what you put on top of it. If by chance you do need to replace them due to cracking or whatever, I recomend SCH-40 for any in ground "dirt" type work with PVC pipe. SCH20 works great inside the home without any chance of crushing. But the 20 will even get crushed by your riding mower eventually.
Only reason I know this is by being a septic and plumber for many years. SCh-20 doesnt last in the dirt...It will be fine for a while. Just be aware it has limits.
I love that you show stuff when it goes wrong, we need to learn from your experience, thank you.
Don't forget to use a 3ft piece of rebar next to the pipe to strap it to, for a brace! Good job 👍
Thanks!
Spoiler Alert: This wasn't about the raised beds (as the title indicates) - it was about the irrigation system he bought.
good shout, thanks!
Yes, but he still had to post this because he was _hyping the fuck out of his irrigation system_ 10 months before the date of the comment I'm making.
Damage Control.
Thanks!
No backflow prevention?
For raised beds
Young man, you so impressed me when you admitted your little boo boo about the drip system....but when I saw how you were putting the Teflon tape on your threaded fitting...well, now I know why you are called HAXMAN!! (Had to have a plumber show me that trick after I wasted a roll of tape when it got away from me!) I'm surprised your mini Haxers weren't out bending shovels with you...kinda. Great information though!! Looking forward to seeing more of your "adventures" soon! Take care, be safe and God bless!
Thanks Jim! The girls wanted no part of the sand gnat swarm. 😁 You as well!
I love people with a sense of humor. (Helps to keep the screaming levels down.)
Best purchase of my life? A no-seem-um head net together with a short-brim hat. Make sure you get one with plenty of length. In fact, get at least two because Murphy's Law is a thing.
I use drip hoses rather than drip lines. Lines clog fast.
I hadn't even thought of that.
Did you mean drip tube, drip tape or soaker hoses? Never heard of drip hoses. Soaker hoses definitely clog if you have hard water, even the dig manufacturer told me this and recommended drip tube.
Yeah I used a 1/2” drip tube underground to each bed, 90 degrees up and through the center of each bed, back out and down and back underground to the next and repeat. Once I established the 1/2” tube. I poked holes and ran 1/4” tubes to each plant. I then pea graveled around all the beds so I don’t have to weed whack and damage the tubes. Put it all on a timer and it’s worked amazingly for over a year. Love this channel and it’s supporters.
@@geeyoupee soaker hoses like particalized rubber with tiny holes on well water in n.e. Texas. They last a season or two.
A couple of additional helps. Install a charcoal for the chlorine and a sediment filter to keep the drippers from getting clogged. Also, apply your pvc adhesive while the primer is still wet.
I did a whole drip system for a retirement facility, a year later other gardeners tore it up and went back to hand watering. I learned my lesson can't tell stupid what to do.if your not supervising it for get it.
fk i'd be gutted : (
but i guess at a retirement facility there might not be much to do and that would be like golf - a reason to be outside. (i don't like golf, just sayin.)
I've been using the Digg brand of irrigation components, for about 6 years now. Love it! Super versatile with cool, cheap range of micro sprayers and valves and drip lines, etc. They even have misters for summertime. You can cover a patio with misters for like $5. With Digg - you could have snapped on some little valves that cost about 20-cents each and controlled the flow of those drippers more accurately. After every winter I expect to see a lot of broken pieces that froze and cracked or that I stepped on under snow - usually only have to replace one or 2 sprayers, and they cost like $2 each and take seconds to snap out and snap in.
Disposable gloves are a must when using pipe glue.
Now you tell me. 😁
thank you. noted!!
I have used this system for years and love it. But I used cutoff switches to cut off each bed when it does not need it. These switches are essential
Some PVC expert will probably yell at me for this, but you can cut your gluing time in half by using the all-in-one primer/glue combo stuff. It's not advised for high pressure or residential application, but you're just making a low pressure garden bed. Also, if your pressure is low enough you can even just friction fit some of your pieces so they can be removed later. I have a bunch of friction fit pipes in my garden so the next spring I can remove them, till up the soil, replant new veggies, and then reinstall the pipes again.
Don't be too hard on yourself. Projects are an everlasting learning experience. What you did then was apt for the time. You you did now is apt for the time. And the odds are if your future-self warned your past-self, the same would have happened. For those DIYers out there who don't have an indispensable budget. It's an unavoidable part of life.
Thanks!
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Great video showing the results of the first drip line. It's cool seeing how you fix the problems
That pinkish fungus is "Wolfs Milk Slime" mold.
That’s one of my favorite silly jokes! Thanks fun guy! Fungi😂
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I had the same idea to run 1inch pipe to all my beds... but then I thought the kids might get wet while they sleep... 😄
This is a great idea and seems real easy to do, but for me in winter time the pipes would freeze, so I'd have to think of a way to completely flush the pipe in winter.
A small air compressor will do the trick if you have one. Just get an air hose adapter to fit where the water hose attaches. IIRC you want to stay below 40 psi. Has worked great for us
1 inch pipe is total overkill and a waste of money unless your beds are about 10 times the size of his.
I've personally had a great experience with Netafim Techline AS drip line (1/2" or 13mm). It's pressure compensating - each drip hole delivers 3L/hr (0.8 gal/hr) in my configuration, and the holes are about a foot apart... if you need more water, you either run additional drip line in a given bed; run a specific zone for a longer period of time; or purchase it in different configurations (drip hole spacings). Pretty straight forward to install - run your main header pipes (PVC or pressure/ag poly), then at one end of the bed you reduce down to a smaller low density poly pipe (eg. 3/4" or 19mm), and use punch fittings to connect the 1/2" Techline to the low density poly pipe.
My system has been running pretty much flawlessly for a few years now; I've only had one small leak where a fencing contractor literally hit the drip line with a shovel (small tear in the 1/2" drip line), and one punch connector started hissing/leaking at a higher rate.
Keep up the great work! :)
Nice! Tie dyed pipes! 🎉
I’ve had 1/2” supply and 1/4” feeds with both embedded emitters and attached emitters for years, and have not had your experience. To raised beds and containers. The adapters can and break occasionally but I don’t think everyone should assume based on your experience, that they should not use these. Maybe it was the brand? Also, try and have multiple zones connected to a controller, so we can have different amounts of watering and different watering intervals.
Same here. Mine has worked for 2-3 seasons now.
Lemon sudsy ammonia with extra dish detergent out to nip your ants a new one- just a contact spray to keep the annoyance level down when they swarm your work area.
I needed that the other day when working on my well. There was a giant bed right where I had to work.
@@HAXMAN You can also add some isopropyl alky to the mix.
also diatomaceous earth. (gets in under the exoskeleton, like v sharp sand. works on other bugs set up that way)
Green Gobbler Orange Oil mixed 1 oz to 1 gal water kills those suckers dead, and won’t put any harsh chemicals around your food. 4 gal-ish per 2 foot mound. Create a moat around the mound to prevent any escapees then drown it.
Dad jokes are like swamp mosquitos. The world will never run out of them.
Almost all Garden Gnomes have red hats. It's a little Gnome fact.
If you hadn't just told me I would have never Gnome. Thanks! 😂
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Yep same here my first year. I waisted a lot, A LOT of money trying all the different ways to water the garden. I feel your pain.
Great video so much work. I have used a drip tape that worked, but I hate those timers as none I bought held up well. I installed an electric rainbird timer for an underground system that fed the drip. Had to get a plumber to help me. Clean drinking water is imp, so bought a RO 5 cartridge filter for my sink (Apec $200) love it.
Oh my gosh thank you bro! I just spent like 2 or 3 hundred on all the drip system crap. I was planning this task tomorrow now I won't. I will return all my stuff and shift gears. Thanks for the great info it all makes good sense!
I love mine! From drip depot. Works like a charm. I got the fertilizer bypass this year. Hope it works well
Thanks, I've been thinking of trying drip irrigation and that was the one I was looking at, I'll do some more research and maybe just stick with the wicking containers that you only need to water every week or so.
Practical Engineering did an episode a while back about watering gardens and soil moisture. His setup might be a bit over the top, with all the sensors and graphs, but maybe something similar would let you automatically maintain the soil moisture level depending on what the plant likes. Just a thought.
Those pvc cutters are wonderful. I finally bought one last year after the years of years of "Oh the hack saw I already have is fine". No... No the hack saw is not fine. Buy the cutter!
Hey Hax - Thumbs up from Iowa. Starting to plant this weekend as the soil temps are at 60 degrees. Best to Kim and the girls.
Thanks Chuck!
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Nice job, I can tell you don't live were it freezes. In my area that PVC system would be a bunch of broken pipes in the spring even if you tried to blow them out. In any case, where you went wrong is not having a pressurized system with specific drip emitters. That way you gauge exactly what each plant/bed needs without over watering some and under-watering others on the same timer. My emitters are adjustable. I used to use drip hoses, but that never worked right (more stuff in the trash).
Always appreciate your videos. And humor is key in life.. ya gotta have fun too right.
Thanks David!
Thank you Adam! I was getting ready to install drip irrigation. Now i get to modify my plans before learn your lesson
I hope it helps!
Really liked this video, you made it look easy, I’ve always been intimidated by drip irrigation. Thanks for sharing the video
Drip is super-easy. No need to run pvc pipe to every bed. Just buy a roll of 1/2 drip line. Can also buy 1/2" drip tape that uses same connectors. Simple to do.
I love how you are able to stay so FUNNY AND POSITIVE GREAT CHANNEL 👍 😊 ❤ ☺
I use 3/4 inch to 1/2 line and installed a shut off valve at each row (I plant directly in the ground not raised beds).
I had 1/4 inch lines before and they clogged after a season. Going on 3 years with the current set up in growing zone 7.
I use the same system but use solid skinny tubbing and put skinny soaker hose at the end and just make it go around the plants and plug the ends of the soaker hose with goof plugs
The best part of gardening is getting beat up by the sun 😂
Man, I was... glued... to the screen watching you assemble that drip system. I'm so sorry your first system turned out to be garbage! I'm about to build my second drip system in my new home in the next week or two- it's less painful after the first time. Or so I tell myself. Prolly I should make a video about it.
Great suggestions! We Never stop learning!
Thanks for the Pro Tips Adam. 😁 Hopefully we will get the garden going this year. Thanks for the video and Have a great weekend 😁👍🚜💨🍳
Thanks Mitch! You too
'Weather man said it was 50/50'......that explains why I'm only getting wet on my outsides.
The real 50/50 is when it's only raining on half your yard 😂
I've seen it several times in my nearly 28 years, just a absolute curtain of rain and then a single step (maybe 2 feet) away dry as a bone, sun shining over both sides
HAXMAN BEEN KILLIN SMURFS!!!
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Just run a couple garden hoses in your beds, cap them off and poke holes in them as needed. Then adjust your water flow at the spigot for preferred flow. That's broadly the cheapest way. You can of coarse
Use irrigation line or whatever the same way but expect to pay more.
Actually irrigation line is surprisingly very cheap. Probably the most cost effective .
Still here for the fart noises! Thank you for not disappointing!!!
I aim to please. 😂 I actually had this video edited when I realized I didn’t have any fart sounds. I went back and added them. 🤣
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I use a soaker hose, or at least I think that's what it's called. I ran it all through my raised garden bed (17 ft x 19 ft) and pinned it to the soil at the base of each plant with landscape pins. When it's time to water, I turn on the water and let it do it's thing.
That may be what we end up using. I forgot all about soaker hoses.
I really like to make my own pvc hoses that run water quickly and directly to plants. I tie them together and then burn holes near the plants so they only get he water. BUT… pvc has gone up incredibly much in my area (Michigan) and it’s now costly to do this
@@HAXMAN They work great for me. I have woven weed cloth on top of the soil and the soaker hose on top of that. I use "U" shaped landscape staples to hold the hose in place.
@@krickette5569 Ive had these before and they ended up getting clogged, also wont work with accuracy if you have to do an incline.
I use 8 port manifolds i found on Amazon at each of my beds to control the water output of each line. They adjust flow with a flat head screw
The only thing I would have done differently is to use CPVC - the gray stuff - at least for the above ground piping. It is much more tolerant of UV rays. Nice job, though!
FYI, you don't have to user primer (purple) and blue, for not potable sources. You could have just used the blue or even the gray, cheaper, and less hassle.
I used to do all that jazz. These days, I manually water my gardens, and enjoy the peace and solitude. Great time to enjoy my labor and shoot the vermin.
Honestly the biggest problem is the sand gnats. They make it unbearable.
@@HAXMAN Thankfully, we don't have those. I remember bbeing eaten alive in Ft. Bragg and Benning
Thanks for sharing.
I tried a drip hose too, stapled down with garden staples. Problem - weeds were not easy to remove without pulling the hoses out!
I run a 75 foot soaker hose under the mulch with a timer and it works perfect
You could paint the exposed pvc green to cover that "neat job" at 7:47, which would also make them blend into the surroundings more.
Yeah, I think I’ll do something like that.
Ghillie cloth. Might have trouble finding them after
Try a dab of vanilla like cologne for the gnats. Imitation works just fine in my experience.
I bought that same pipe cutter last weekend. Never used one before but it worked great.
Yeah. I think I've used dull or broken ones in the past apparently.
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Seems like a lot of work to just even out the drip. One of the things I do with my raised beds is use adjusting drip heads. I have one line on timer, everything gets watered at the same time in the right amounts. My raised garden isn't huge by no means, it's just 70' X 30' but it gives a retiree something to do.
Take care and great video
Love it, man!
You’re hilarious. I liked the brain fungus, Barney dinosaur, the glue part. Very good video!
You actually made that look pretty easy!
I love Spaceballs, def one of the best parodies. Yes I caught it the 1st time round 😊
At some point in this mans life he has been told he looks like an actor we all know I just cant place the actors name myself. Your Videos are awesome I love to learn from you about this survival and skill stuff you teach it so calmly. My family gets frustrated when things arent going the way we plan, it happens, but it is nice to see that you just keep going and joking. Love you and your family.
5:32 I like the way you put that T in the dirt right after the pro tip of putting caps on the pipes to keep the dirt out.
Well I had room to tap it to each side to clear it out. 😉
PVC with a splash of color. Well done.
Nice shirt!
Thanks Chris!
In the fields, we use the lay flat tubing instead of PVC and puncture in the emitters or the spaghetti drip lines depending or use the lay flat with the holes in the seam at the rate for the crop.
😂 those sound effects😂 great tips thank you
Spray paint any PVC that is exposed to direct sunlight. It will drastically help with UV degradation of the plastic.
I'm glad I have a good bunch of left over pex and pvc pipe from a bunch of plumbing jobs from the last few years. Already built one drip line for my cucumbers from 3/4" pex. I used a garden hose adaptor into a shut off valve, to the pipe tied level along my trellis, with a garden hose spigot at the other end. I drilled 1/16" holes on each side of each plant about 3 inches away from the stalk, at about 45 degree's up from center, and control the flow with the shut off valve, so it is a sprinkler, and a drip system all in one. I can open the hose spigot at the end, and fill buckets and such, while still running a drip, or shut off the spigot, and use just the drip, or open first valve up and sprinkler out over 1/3 of my garden and get the nice morning watering done much quicker than by hand with a watering can, or a hose and sprayer.
And this is why am old fashion gardener who waters and looks at plants daily and have no friends lol
I like to use 1" poly. I heat up the poly with a torch and 3/4 PVC will slide right in. Use hose clamps to hold it together.
I'm actually installing raised beds and drip line this weekend. I like the PVC board but it's so spendy these days. I wish I could find a good supplier for the stuff.
Good luck with your project.
Thank you for the tip!
Thanks for the video. What do you think of running 3/4” pex in the ground instead of the sticks of pvc?
Wife and I have tried many different kinds of drip and soaker systems. The only one we've used more than 2 or 3 years is what we are using now. 3/4" PVC pipe with 1/8" holes drilled in it. PVC main line distributes to various valves, and each valve feeds a length of 3/4in pipe with holes and the far end capped. Nothing downstream of the valve is glued. Can slip off the end caps to flush lines. When a hole plugs up a bit of wire fits into it to unplug it. Being friction fit together all but the main can be removed for tilling or rearranging. A selection of elbows and pieces without holes allow rearranging lines. For raised beds like yours I'd probably run the main to and put a valve at each bed. (We tore out our raised beds after 8-10 years.)
I'm not in Utah, but the state university extension office there (USU Extension) published a good intro article, "Designing a Basic PVC Home Garden Drip Irrigation System" and reference material.
That's a good idea. I've never seen it done that way. Thanks!
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Thank you Joy
I thought I was the only one who did the “Curly song” when he’s working
You're making me feel lazy, I have been needing to do something like this. My 'temporary' solution of hanging a bar sprinkler from a tree is in it's 4th year of use. I only have 4-8'x4' beds too, you have more than 20 by the sound of it.
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I love your video thank you
Thank you!
Hi I've been doing plumbing electrical for over like 49 years now and you're going to run into a couple of problems one of them will be what time the PVC will degrade in the sun rays it will get dry and brittle an impact on it or shatter it like glass
The other problem that you will run into I don't know where you live what part of the country if the temperature drops below freezing point you'll have to bleed your lines just before winter you'll have to empty them with a compressor get all the water out and leave the valves open
And I'd like to mention by the way you make great videos we always love some sense of humour in the videos it keeps it interesting I don't know how to get in touch with you by email so if you give me your email I will send you an email correspondence so I could solve some of the issues so that you don't waste money and waste time
Hi Gilbert. We are are in the deep south so we rarely get freezing temps. I’m happy for any advice from an expert though. My email is rmccreatestation@gmail.com. Thanks!
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I used PEX with its brass couplers. Then attached soaker hose cut to length in each bed to loop all the way around it. Then back to PEX. I turn on one valve and all beds get watered at the same time. I even bought a timer for the water hose, only to discover all the directions were in Mandarin. Oh well.
I've always had great luck with soaker hoses.
Pro tip~ use Red Hot Blue Glue by Christy’s! One step only glue up.
1" and 3/4 is overkill for most backyard garden applications. 1/2 will flow plenty for drip applications, I use mostly drip tape and haven't had any issue with clogging but I also have a spin down filter before it heads to the irrigation lines.
Lmao 🤣
I just so happened to be watching Spaceballs at the exact time I watched this video... Crazy
Oh man! Wish I had seen this a month ago. Invested in Drip Works for our garden and now hesitate to finish the project. 😢
It could have been my environment that played a part. The biggest problem was the 90 degree connections for the 1/4 inch lines. If you can avoid those it might save some hassle down the road.
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Thanks for your videos, you're a funny guy. Appriciate your research. However, I use soaker hose. And I got rid of my garden boxes. Much easier.
Nice. I can relate to doing this. Right now Im uploading a video tearing chunks out of a company that sold me a dodgy not as advertise piece of cr@p and occasionally, I have to post an entirely new video with a withdrawal because I screwed up haha. Being human is ok :-) The hose still leaks.... Funny. Good hoses are the bane of my existence. They always leak, the connectors lever last long, of for some reason they limit the tap pressure... esp. water timers here in Australia. Nothing like a RUclips channel to teach a company to put a little more R and D into their stuff before selling imperfect faulty or misleading goods haha
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I hope I’m the first person to tell you that that glue job is 👌
I are a professional. 😂
Reunited🤣🤣🤣 thanks for the laughs this morning
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I gave up on my garden had sludge underneath the first 6inched on bagged soil, my stuff seemed to never grow.