Gravity Watering - The best low pressure, passive irrigation system? Thirsty Earth

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[brianreynolds]

Just bought We will see how well it works. Thanks for the vid

[gowsraouf]

simple + less moving parts +no planned obsolescence = perfect

[DanaMite]

Love it. Appreciate you informing us greenhouse gardeners about this sweet set up. Gonna have to check it out, cuz I hate dealing with timers.

[GimmeADream]

Thanks for the link and the tips on how to use the system.

[kinglowe]

very cool looking system! still waiting for the ralph shirts lol

[daviedodds]

Good stuff m8! As my wee homesteaders garden is up & running, this is an area that I could improve upon. Save myself a bunch of time by automating feeding & watering. 👍

[abefehr]

That's awesome idea I shared it with my family and friends

[mjbates]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing! I'll definitely pick up some of these because I'm going to plant some fruiting trees this year. I use a similar system for our potted Bougainvillea because they're so easy to accidentally overwater. Ours look like a hollow terracotta spike with a water globe that fits on top. It's a super simple system, but it's been working great for years!

[patricklyons]

I live in Warwickshire UK & it's a hard water area, so l use distiller's to create pure water. Which no one should live on because it has no minerals, which would draw vital minerals from your body. However for tea & coffee l prefer it, ...slowly l get too the point. Minerals will eventually block the filter & require either cooking the terracotta filters clear or chemical treatment them. I still like the concept Dean! A clay lined growing bed for certain plants would help stop water draining away as you no doubt know.

[mirkopg]

In my cottage in Italy we do the same concept but not terracotta pods just few Mt high and gravity make the rest, we just collect rain water because the well is drained from last 10 years after the last stronger heartquake and we used 19 water tanks like yours 👍👋

[Lon]

Look forward to the 6 month review on these, I feel like they won't deliver enough water to the soil, but perhaps they work better than I imagine

[jon_raymond]

Interesting idea. Might think about putting together a similar system using terracotta pots from the dollar store and some 3d printed parts.

[davidking]

Interesting... I wonder if over a few years of growth, would bigger plants seek out the water source and these become root bound...? like when trees break into underground pipes and such... Be great to see a longer term experience video... but certainly a great solution for the smaller plants - esp. those that are sensitive to being overwatered... One of the problems we get here in Australia with drippers and such is that ants get into them, and the nozzles get clogged... These look fully sealed from such a problem...

[jackieow]

If you have a system involving PVC pipes and want to know what the water level is, or whether they are clogged up, you can use transparent PVC available by special order. PVC is naturally transparent, but dyed white to keep algae from growing inside water lines. So, for a high stand pipe that you want to make sure has enough water, why use a ladder and maybe break your neck? Topped off with clear PVC you can always tell how full it is from the ground.

[KazeOfKami]

These are a sweet idea, especially for my small gardens around my house. My only gripe would be it seems like you could DIY this for much much cheaper than what their site costs. A 5 gallon bucket, a few 3/8 inch hosing with some fittings and cheap terracotta vessels and you're done. Since you don't have any affiliate with them, perhaps you could make a DIY version in the next video. 😊

[eliinthewolverinestate]

Doing the earth ship planter to reuse the gray water. Hoping to run it by gravity, unless pumping it for toilet. I gotta figure out cistern and keep it from freezing. I have flowing point well, but cottage build site is up on ridge. I use a gas water pump to get water on the ridge. This is till I can afford a real well.

[jackieow]

This works for a small number of square feet where you are willing to put in lots of time and money per greenhouse unit of space. Cheaper and easier is drip irrigation, where there is a main flexible plastic hose line on the surface with some pressure (pump or gravity, your choice) and the water goes from there (via little holes) sideways through the hose wall partition into a parallel attached lower pressure hose from which the water trickles to the plants. So internal holes step the pressure down from the main line to the parallel attached emitter line, and a second set of external holes from the lower pressure line trickles water out to water the plants. It costs less per square foot and is less feast-and-famine over the territory, since with the clay pots it's a lot wetter close to the pot than it is further away. Easy to pull up the drip irrigation lines and roll them on a spool, dig up your garden without plumbing in the way, and re-use the cheapie but effective watering system over and over later on. If there's a timer on it you can still be off fishing for a week and have no problems. You can have a higher pressure system without an integral pump if somewhere in the network of piping you put a vertical standpipe say 10 feet high, and make sure it is topped off. You just make the standpipe as high as you need the pressure to be, and if it is being fed by rainwater then the sky's the limit. Every 2.31 feet the pipe goes higher, you gain one psi. or 0.432 psi per vertical foot of water.

[patrickbos]

That will work perfect by my orange, l lemon and grapefruit trees. As soon as you get that figured maybe you'll be able to come for a visit.😊

[cosmicbeer]

In your opinion, what are the main reasons that this system might not be suitable on a commercial scale?

[primordial_platypus]

Is the terracotta they use any different from common garden pots? Seems like they might have a slightly more porous mix.