Water And Fertilize Your Garden For FREE With This Gravity Fed Drip Irrigation System!

This video is a complete guide on using gravity and rain barrels to irrigate and fertilize your garden. This gravity fed drip irrigation system will water and fertilize your garden for FREE - no electricity, pumps or public water system required!

TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Installing Drip Irrigation And Rain Barrels Basics
1:14 Gravity, Static Head Pressure & System Performance
2:41 Current Drip Irrigation System Performance
4:59 Raising My Rain Barrels To Increase System Pressure
5:53 New System Pressure VS Old System Pressure
7:47 Container Garden Drip Irrigation Performance
9:11 Using Rain Barrels To Fertilize My Garden
12:01 What To Expect: Amazing Tomato Results!
13:10 Drip Irrigation System Elevation Explained
16:12 Adventures With Dale

If you have questions about how to install drip irrigation to your garden, installing rain barrels, have questions about growing fruit trees or want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and "garden hacks" like this, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and "how to" garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!

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[willwebber]

You just made me realize that my sloped backyard is actually an asset! I've been struggling with uneven watering trying to garden directly in the ground on a hillside. But now I realize that with containers, and harnessing gravity-fed irrigation, I can make my backyard work for me! I won't even need to raise the rain barrels because they'll already be much higher than the garden area below. You're the man MG!

[tobruz]

You need to feed the header at the garden at both ends from the barrels to equalize the pressure along the header so all drippers will have the same pressure

[Chris-bxvk]

You need to trash those jersey shore tank tops lol. You're in the south now. Jokes aside, you have the best most informative garden videos online. Kudos and thanks!

[LifeIsMessyImLearningAsIGrow]

🌻🐝☀️🌺👨‍🌾🌸You are an inspiration to me. Im growing most of my garden in containers. I can see you put a lot of work and love into growing! The best part of gardening to me is you get to see the new growth everyday it brings me so much joy! It’s the start of my 3 year gardening but there is still so much to learn and I appreciate your tips, tricks and advice! I hope we can learn more from each other as we grow!

[Blackwaterswamp]

I'm just getting started gardening, and so appreciative of all the information you pack in your videos. Thank you ❤️

[StevenLeBlanc]

It'll be easier to dissolve the fertilizer in a bucket then pour it in the barrel. Congratulations on your irrigation system success!

[POlesiuk]

I'm recently retired and new to gardening, and have found your channel to be a great source of solid, useful, reliable and practical information. I live on a rocky outcrop, so plant in containers and "raised beds" (8' X 3' X 15" deep wood boxes sitting on the rocky substrate). I'm setting up a rainwater collection and drip irrigation system inspired by your videos. Have you considered another video on irrigation techniques. I realize specifics depend on temperature, rain, soil, crop etc. but perhaps you could outline some general strategies. For things like tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers, is it better to irrigate frequently keeping the soil constantly moist, or to deep water periodically after letting the soil dry out? Is it better to concentrate water near the stem to promote deep rooting, or spread evenly throughout the bed/container to promote surface roots. As far as water soluble fertilizer, is it better to fertilize lightly on a continuous basis, or periodically fertilize more heavily? Would you change the NPK ratio as the plants develop from growing to flowering to fruiting stages? Do you fertilize leafy crops like lettuce and spinach? Any suggestions and advice would be much appreciated.

[TravelWithFlamboyance]

I just moved to Leland from the northeast and I’m starting my first garden. Very excited to have found your videos. Seems I’m pretty late getting things started. Not used to the climate and season differences plus I’ve never been very successful. Hoping for better results this year!

[plastikerongtatay]

Eco friendly gardening thumbs up thank you for sharing this brilliant ideas in gardening safe always God bless us all

[jesheezy]

Great set up!
Fyi Every ft of elevation will give you about 0.4 psi of head pressure. To get all the way up to 25 psi like your sprinklers, you would need to elevate it over 46ft!

[FloridaGirl-]

Great set up. Love it! I hope to set up something similar this winter. Right now, it’s too darn HOT OUT! Phew! Your gardens are beautiful.

[carolalderete]

Wow! I love this channel! This guy explains things very well. I'll be watching all of his videos.

[robertas.]

What is the flow rating on your drippers and how long do you run them each watering?

Your videos are great, I'm inspired to get rain barrels and expand my gardening efforts. Thank you.

[jomtanamsayur]

Your methode of gardening really inspired me to do the same but with tropical climate ... 👍

[robyaksich]

Wow, great stuff! I wish I'd had a second barrel in place when we got the only measurable precipitation we've had in the last several month. Here in the Southwest - I'm in New Mexico - we are experiencing the worst drought in 1, 200 years! The community where I live has placed watering restrictions, so now if we could just get some rain coming out of the sky, I could do this for my garden. We shall see if our Southwest monsoon kicks in this year. All I need is a paltry quarter inch of rain to fill up my barrels and IBC Tote.

[angelm]

WOW! I've been looking for a solution, this looks like IT! Time to watch your other video about how to set up this system! Solid video!!

[sherilynalexnder]

This is so informative, and interesting, thanks!

[lindag]

Awesome! Congratulations on a fabulous system!

[iamthewelcher]

Man do I appreciate my YouTube Gardner's !!! Thanks buddy!!

[nedcramdon]

Ease up there muscles! Seriously though, that's a great idea on the garden by my workshop. I'll use the rain gutter as a source. Thanks dude!