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 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.
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 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 ❤️ 🙏
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 😔.
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!
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.
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.
As a single parent wanting to get all this set up for my garden, it seems overwhelming, but hiring someone to do it will be very expensive. I will give this a try, and hopefully, I can succeed. 🤞Thank you for the video!! 🙂
I'm getting my irrigation in place and having been watching many videos to make sense of what I need. I found your videos easy to watch and the information is really helpful as other commenter have said.
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
I like being able to lift the drip without too much faffing about so instead of curving it back on itself, i have a straight top with elbows and tees in it , i find, k only have to put a couple pegs at either end to hold it in place, so its quickly moved out the way for planting. Im planning on upgrading to have a valve and a quick connect so i can quickly switch that bed off an diconnect it if i have to.
techstuff that sounds like a great design. One of the reasons I decided to do loops rather than tees was to have less materials and less cut but i appreciate you sharing your experience.
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!!!
Howdy you should look into automating your watering system, now with everything alexa integrated im sure you can rig a smart timer to a water valve and even control it through your phone! The harder route but surefire would be a raspberryPi hooked up to a contempory controls hat .
Corey Carr Hi, thanks for the suggestion! I do control my system through a cellphone app. I actually have 3 gardens at desperate properties and they are all automated and adjustable from an app on my phone.
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
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 RUclips creator I really appreciate your advice and will absolutely work on this!
putting a big straw layer on your beds as an armour, will prevent your soil to wash away with heavy rain, and keep the soil from drying out and heating up. Rainworms will compost the straw and eventually make the soil soak up more water and keep it from evaporating, hence: less to no watering necessary.
I use metal wires over the bend pieces of pipe. This way when the tape dries out or for whatever reason fails the metal wire will keep the bend in the line and not dump hundreds of liters onto a single spot flushing plants away.
@@urbanfarmstead You could use those but i guess they are quite thick. Thinner wire is easier to wrap around. What i did was use a bit of electrical tape to make the bend. Then wrap some really thin (i had it on hand) wire a couple times around it tight and then another bit of electrical tape to water seal it a little bit. (first layer of tape was to prevent damage to the pipe because i used really thin wire really tight). The thing about only using tape is that it will stretch over time and break because if its a rubber it will dry out and if its a plastic it will decompose with UV light. Metal wires will not decompose or anything like that. It might rust over a couple of years but the signs of rust will be visible waaaaaaay before it actually snaps, and if it snaps it might even stay in place.
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.
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!
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.
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??
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.
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.
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.
Jacob Sweeney I’m hoping to make one soon, but in the meantime, if you follow the link to my Instagram in the description, I posted a tomato planting video last week that many people found very helpful, so check that out for now as an appetizer.
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
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?
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?
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!
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.
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.
Southern California Gardening thank you so much! I figured this would be a hood platform to share more long form detailed videos. Thanks for your support!
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
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!!
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
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.
Love the detail on this video, just what I've been looking for! Quick question: do you have any ideas/tips if there's no access to an irrigation header? The place I just moved into was just renovated and they ripped out the access points with the intent to fix it in the future. Until then I'm only working with an extra long hose that I'd like to hook in, but I'm brand new to irrigation. Any thoughts?
Hi. I work at an NGO where one of our project looks at promoting urban farming. You're ideas and videos are great but I wish they were are little more cost effective and doable by people in developing countries. Any chance you could make similar videos with materials available in less developed places? That would be great. Always enjoy watching your videos. Thanks for sharing them
Hi. I make these videos to show the project that I’m doing to create my garden, so any products or materials I choose are the ones I want to have or have access to in my area. Not everyone will have access to the same products and materials, but with a bit of creativity anything can be substituted to make the project fit different budgets or needs. Just like substituting an ingredient in a recipe. Have a nice day
Show us, how to add trellis or support for tomato, cucumber plants.. following your foot steps of turning the lawn into a vegetable garden 😊 Also do you plant companion plants for each bed ? How do you protect the plants from pests ?
Bhavani Sridhar I will be creating a video on trellises tomorrow but it will be a week or so before it’s posted. Sunday I’ll post a new video all about planting our summer veggies! Companion planting will probably come later but that and organic pest management are definitely priority videos👍🏼
@@mariarogers4720 actual average annual rainfall in your part of East Texas is 36-50", but that's still a lot of moisture. For a region so used to rain, when y'all have a dry year, you'll have to water your veggie garden.
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.
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
It looks great Kyle and this has been very informative. Excited to see how it all develops. What type of automatic irrigation system do you suggest for much smaller sized gardens in raised planter beds?
Lyca Segal thank you! I’m so glad you asked - I’m currently editing a video that I shot last week to share exactly what you’re looking for. I’m hoping to have it posted Sunday. Basically I use soaker hose. Stay tuned, and thanks for your feedback.
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.
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.
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.
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🙂
Great video! Question: I’ve got a garden with 6 6x6 raised beds. I was thinking of using 1/4” drip line with emitters every 6” in the boxes - would you recommend I use the 1/2” drip line with emitters every 12” instead? I currently have 1/2 netafim running around the perimeter of the garden area where I would tap into. Does the 1/2” drip line saturate the surface enough when planting seeds? Thanks for your advice. Love your gardens!!!
Kate Stitt I think either one would work well for your garden. With 1/2” like I’m suing you will have some shallow dry areas that could affect shallow down seeds but there are work arounds. For the small size of hour beds the 1/4” should be able to provide enough flow.
You are about the most informative and concise how-to gardner that I've encountered on youtube. Thank you for your helpful videos.
Rosa Tomsic thank you so much for your kind words and feedback! I’m glad you’re enjoying my videos!
Yes.. what she said! :-) excellent content. Thanks very much!
@@urbanfarmstead I agree! Wish I had found you first, would have saved a lot of time & effort!!!!
I totally agree!!!
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.
thanks Nate! I agree, this and soaker hose are both great options, oh and drip tape as well but I’m not sure the lifespan of it.
@@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'm having that issue. I'm seeing that the top is very dry & its scaring me. I feel like the plants are going to suffer.
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.
Thanks awesome! Thank you so much, and you are very welcome! Happy gardening
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
rohan vishwa hi, that sounds like a very creative and amazing little garden you must have! Thank you so much for that feedback! I’ll keep them coming!
We'd love to see a video of your rooftop garden!
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 ❤️ 🙏
Thank you so much!
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 😔.
I really appreciate your “use what you have” mindset & the concise, yet informative nature of your videos. Thank you so much!
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!
Divine R thank you so much! I’m really glad you are enjoying my videos and I’m grateful to have this opportunity to share my entire process!
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.
What I gather from your videos is that with proper preparation the work gets much easier at later stages. Great videos. Subscribed.
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.
Yeah, that’s what it’s all about! Constantly evaluating, learning, and improving.
This is so far the best video on irrigation system (drip system) any DIYer could use. Thanks for making this helpful video 👍🏼
As a single parent wanting to get all this set up for my garden, it seems overwhelming, but hiring someone to do it will be very expensive. I will give this a try, and hopefully, I can succeed. 🤞Thank you for the video!! 🙂
Perfect timing since I am in the process of installing a drip irrigation and your video is perfect amongst all the videos I’ve watched.
Jon Cu awesome! Happy to help, and thanks so much for the feedback! Let me know if you have any questions! Best of luck with your project!
Urban Farmstead. Subscribed and also just found you on IG and noticed a lot of my photographer friends already follow you.
Great! Thanks Jon! Oh cool, yeah I’m fortunate to be friends with some very talented photographers here in Sacramento, and beyond.
I cant wait to have a yard for a garden and install something like this! Thank you for the idea!
I know that feeling! Definitely get some stuff going in containers in the meantime! You are very welcome!
So much to see and learn from your video, nice job ♡♡
Snacks and Foods thank you!
This video just saved my garden! The most helpful and detailed vegetable garden irrigation tutorial! Thank you so much for making this video.
Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for sharing. Am gonna follow exactly this to irrigate my garden beds. You explain it so well..😊👌
joan Lizzy you’re welcome! That’s awesome, it’s working great here so I hope you have great success as well.
I'm getting my irrigation in place and having been watching many videos to make sense of what I need.
I found your videos easy to watch and the information is really helpful as other commenter have said.
Thank you. Your system is sooo gooood 👍
Glad you think so!
Excellent guidance. Thanks a lot for this.
Thank you!
Best gardening videos on the you tube.
Claire Calitz you are too kind 💚 thank you!✌🏼
This guy knows everything! I'm in awe how thorough you are. If you ever consult in Atlanta would love to work together.
Great job explaining irrigation installation! Keep up the excellent work!
Travel & Garden Tours thank you! I will!
Can't wait to see your garden tour
Linpek Ngulom thanks! Hoping to make a Monthly garden walk through video starting soon
Thanks much, very informative and straight forward.
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for sharing this were very helpful!🥑
Teena's Sacred Home & Garden you’re welcome! I’m glad you found it helpful!
Can we get a follow up. What you have learned, what you like, what you would do different & how long the system runs etc etc
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
I like being able to lift the drip without too much faffing about so instead of curving it back on itself, i have a straight top with elbows and tees in it , i find, k only have to put a couple pegs at either end to hold it in place, so its quickly moved out the way for planting. Im planning on upgrading to have a valve and a quick connect so i can quickly switch that bed off an diconnect it if i have to.
techstuff that sounds like a great design. One of the reasons I decided to do loops rather than tees was to have less materials and less cut but i appreciate you sharing your experience.
That soil is so soft it makes my mouth water.
I used drip tape and had issues of the tape popping off... I think I'll use this style this year. Less involved
Yeah, drip tape can work well in some applications, but this will also be a more durable and permanent option
Thanks for this video and the other one demonstrating the automated irrigation system. Totally going to use these ideas on my own garden. 🤠
Good job again. Greetings from Huntsville, AL
Ian Aycock thank you! Greetings and happy gardening!
Excellent info. Thank you so much.
Shalimar Little thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it
beautiful, thanks!
Great video again. Will be replicating your steps.
ajinkya41187 thank you so much!
Awesome video! Appreciate the content - will work great in my raised bed.
Thank you! I’m adding it to my new raised beds soon too!
thank you very much
You are welcome
This is the best video I’ve seen on this. Thanks! 👍
I live in Carmichael...I had a pretty successful season but I would love to talk to you about making my vegetable garden even more successful.
Audrey Ling hi neighbor! That’s great!
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!!!
Thank you very much for your sharing!!!!! It's very helpful 👍👍👍
Howdy you should look into automating your watering system, now with everything alexa integrated im sure you can rig a smart timer to a water valve and even control it through your phone! The harder route but surefire would be a raspberryPi hooked up to a contempory controls hat .
Corey Carr Hi, thanks for the suggestion! I do control my system through a cellphone app. I actually have 3 gardens at desperate properties and they are all automated and adjustable from an app on my phone.
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
Great video, super helpful!
Amanda Gonzalez thank you!
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 RUclips creator I really appreciate your advice and will absolutely work on this!
@@urbanfarmstead Great. I can't wait to see that orchard of yours begin baring fruit, I know they're going to be delicious! 🌳🍑
Love it
Anson Ong thank you!
Loved it
putting a big straw layer on your beds as an armour, will prevent your soil to wash away with heavy rain, and keep the soil from drying out and heating up. Rainworms will compost the straw and eventually make the soil soak up more water and keep it from evaporating, hence: less to no watering necessary.
I use metal wires over the bend pieces of pipe. This way when the tape dries out or for whatever reason fails the metal wire will keep the bend in the line and not dump hundreds of liters onto a single spot flushing plants away.
Like the landscape staples I’m using in the video or something different?
@@urbanfarmstead You could use those but i guess they are quite thick. Thinner wire is easier to wrap around. What i did was use a bit of electrical tape to make the bend. Then wrap some really thin (i had it on hand) wire a couple times around it tight and then another bit of electrical tape to water seal it a little bit. (first layer of tape was to prevent damage to the pipe because i used really thin wire really tight).
The thing about only using tape is that it will stretch over time and break because if its a rubber it will dry out and if its a plastic it will decompose with UV light. Metal wires will not decompose or anything like that. It might rust over a couple of years but the signs of rust will be visible waaaaaaay before it actually snaps, and if it snaps it might even stay in place.
Brink Shows thank you for the detailed explanation. It sounds like a well thought out system.
why not use a hose barb with a cap for end pieces?
@@Litheon11 This way is cheaper. XD
This looks like the way
Works great!
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.
...and thank you so much for the kind words! I’m really glad you are enjoying my videos and finding them helpful.
More videos please!
Don Santos editing one at this very moment. Hoping to post it Sunday.
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!
So at 5:36 I learned why important and exciting things happen when we reach 12 inches.
Ali Finley 👍🏼
Great video - thanks! Do you have any suggestions as to how to design a gravity fed drip irrigation system from an (elevated large) rain water tank?
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.
Great job..keep up the good 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??
I have a full irrigation video on my IGTV that shows the entire process of adding valves etc.
Great video. Becarful with how tight you are making those irrigation lines. Hand tight is plenty. Really dont need the pliers.
Thank you! And thanks for the tip!
Learned a lot with this video! Thanks for the tips 😄
Thank you! Glad it was helpful!
Thanks bud
Barbarian King you’re welcome!
Love your channel man!!!!!!!
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.
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.
you make really good videos brother
Thank you so much!
Urban Farmstead pleasure is all mine😃
What an educational video. Thanks so much for the help. Can you tell me the width and length of your garden beds? Thank you.
susan Foret thank you. The wide one are about 4’x12’ and the others are about 18” by 10’
Urban Farmstead Thank you.
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.
Great video ! ! …….I can’t find info on the controller you use? Can you provide the information…..Thanks
It should be in my link in the video description, but I’ll check. It’s called Rachio
I wanted to see the planting video!
Jacob Sweeney I’m hoping to make one soon, but in the meantime, if you follow the link to my Instagram in the description, I posted a tomato planting video last week that many people found very helpful, so check that out for now as an appetizer.
I still hand water now! 😐 the irrigation I've used is always expensive
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
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?
Love this series of videos. Curious why you wood chipped the pathways and not the actual beds for better weed control and moisture retention though?
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?
Nice one Subscribed Please keep it comin
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!
Urban Farmstead That’s great! Huge space too, can’t wait to see what all you do with it!
Where can i buy 3/4 T and 3/4 connectors for dripline headers
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.
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.
MagicSword well said 👍🏼
loved to see ur beautiful garden on Instagram.. it’s going to be fun to watch it now on RUclips💚😊
Southern California Gardening thank you so much! I figured this would be a hood platform to share more long form detailed videos. Thanks for your support!
Good work.🍒
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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
Wow thanks you
Hi. Great vidoes. Do you have your fruit trees on drip? If so, how often and for how long to you water?
Thank you. Yes I do. This year I ran the irrigation once every 3 weeks for 90 minutes
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!!
The wood chip pathways can just be left in place
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
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.
Love the detail on this video, just what I've been looking for!
Quick question: do you have any ideas/tips if there's no access to an irrigation header? The place I just moved into was just renovated and they ripped out the access points with the intent to fix it in the future. Until then I'm only working with an extra long hose that I'd like to hook in, but I'm brand new to irrigation. Any thoughts?
Hi. I work at an NGO where one of our project looks at promoting urban farming. You're ideas and videos are great but I wish they were are little more cost effective and doable by people in developing countries. Any chance you could make similar videos with materials available in less developed places? That would be great. Always enjoy watching your videos. Thanks for sharing them
Hi. I make these videos to show the project that I’m doing to create my garden, so any products or materials I choose are the ones I want to have or have access to in my area. Not everyone will have access to the same products and materials, but with a bit of creativity anything can be substituted to make the project fit different budgets or needs. Just like substituting an ingredient in a recipe. Have a nice day
Show us, how to add trellis or support for tomato, cucumber plants.. following your foot steps of turning the lawn into a vegetable garden 😊 Also do you plant companion plants for each bed ? How do you protect the plants from pests ?
Bhavani Sridhar I will be creating a video on trellises tomorrow but it will be a week or so before it’s posted. Sunday I’ll post a new video all about planting our summer veggies! Companion planting will probably come later but that and organic pest management are definitely priority videos👍🏼
Just move to the piney woods of East Texas and you’ll never have to worry about watering ever again lol
Really? You don’t have to water at all?
@@urbanfarmstead never have to water
@@mariarogers4720 cool
@@urbanfarmstead most years it rains between 50 up to 90 inches a year
@@mariarogers4720 actual average annual rainfall in your part of East Texas is 36-50", but that's still a lot of moisture.
For a region so used to rain, when y'all have a dry year, you'll have to water your veggie garden.
Hey sir I am from India. How much water dose it need for a week and please mention your garden size
Your videos are awesome. Just keep it going
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.
... and thank you John!
Nothing died yet. Haha! 😃 Nice system. Of course my wife wants one just like it.
It’s working perfectly!
@@urbanfarmstead That’s great. I like how you put a drain on it, very important at this time of year.
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
It looks great Kyle and this has been very informative. Excited to see how it all develops. What type of automatic irrigation system do you suggest for much smaller sized gardens in raised planter beds?
Lyca Segal thank you! I’m so glad you asked - I’m currently editing a video that I shot last week to share exactly what you’re looking for. I’m hoping to have it posted Sunday. Basically I use soaker hose. Stay tuned, and thanks for your feedback.
@@urbanfarmstead Looking forward to the new video post! :)
Lyca Segal great!
For me my supplier is LEE VALLEY TOOL GARGEN. This is an FYI i am not associated in any way with them and this is were i buy my gardening supplies.
Thanks for sharing James
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.
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.
@@urbanfarmstead oh I'm sorry. I thought that is what you called it in the video. Thanks!
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.
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🙂
Amman Raza I covered the pathways with wood chip mulch. I have two videos on that if you are interested. Thank you!
Great video! Question: I’ve got a garden with 6 6x6 raised beds. I was thinking of using 1/4” drip line with emitters every 6” in the boxes - would you recommend I use the 1/2” drip line with emitters every 12” instead? I currently have 1/2 netafim running around the perimeter of the garden area where I would tap into. Does the 1/2” drip line saturate the surface enough when planting seeds? Thanks for your advice. Love your gardens!!!
Kate Stitt I think either one would work well for your garden. With 1/2” like I’m suing you will have some shallow dry areas that could affect shallow down seeds but there are work arounds. For the small size of hour beds the 1/4” should be able to provide enough flow.
That's a great system! You mentioned that you water twice a week: Any idea what your total water use is in gallons per week?
Thank you! No, I haven’t done the math on that yet.