Welcome to episode 7 of Growers Daily!
We cover: How to scale with water, how pulse watering works and what is pulse watering, and Jennie Love shares an important piece of Advice
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Great work.
We use the beehive watering timers that have an app to control it, in Arizona. This summer was a dormant situation for us. 😢 our not so great well just couldn’t keep up. We have 500 gallons of rain water but blew through in June. Rain just never came this year. Thank you for the information on pulse watering. Cannot wait to try.
My house sits on a quarter acre, and I've turned my backyard into one giant garden, so not a big area. I was never worried about irrigation due to the size of things; it's easy enough to toodle around with my hose. HOWEVER, this pulse idea really seems beneficial. I'm going to explore some irrigation now.
Consulting with indoor cannabis growers, this was one small but significant change for my clients…take your daily watering allotment (rez) and break up that water into 4 equally timed parts every 6 hours. This keeps the microbiology happy and consistently fed, thus cycling nutrients, thus blowin' up fresh healthy plant material. This move also cuts total indoor plant water needs almost in half. Thriving biological farming = nutrient density! Loooove this new format Jesse. Thanks Jennie for the water lesson!
A week after the hurricane, we will be in very low temperatures for a week,so ima gonna be picken peppers. With wind chill to boot.
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I live just outside of Philadelphia in Bucks County. This was an extremely hot and dry year. I hand water, so basically I’m worn out. We garden on a three-quarter acre property, but I had a lot of plants in the ground. They all did well but only because I watered, watered, watered.
Cheers, fellow outdoor flower farmers.
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Here in southwestern Missouri, the dry season starts in July usually ending sometime in September and during that period of time, we usually get one good rain that pulls us through, not this year. No rain for this many months has destroyed the garden and the forest hills are all turning brown and falling. It's been a devastating season.
I’ve much past experience working with hydroponic irrigation in an 18 acre glass house. And, what you refer to as pulse we call shots. And, the water is delivered in correlation to the volume of light in laymen’s terms. It’s a sophisticated system. In my own field crops I adjust times and length of shots according to solar wattage. The idea is to give water when the plants really need it, based on how hard they’re working in response to the available solar radiation. An additional option would be running your solenoids via moisture sensors.
As always a great video. Truthfully we had never heard of pulse watering. Not at all sure if it would work for us? Six inches of rain so far for us this year. We basically live in the desert! Our garden is now about 100% drip tape irrigation. Made a mega difference in saving water as well as time for us and taking care of other garden things. We are on co op water. Really not all that expensive. Thought about having our own "private" well. Then $20.000.00 is also a bit cost per hibited right now. So manana and another great video, Thank you!
why no one ever speaks about wheat and barley , those top most eaten in middleast northafrica . very little permaculture stuff about these.
We've had three dry years in a row, though this year the drought at least set in later than it did the previous two years. I've been adding more flowers to my vegetable garden each year, originally just to draw beneficial insects but now to cut them for bouquets as well, and I'm trying to do as many drought-tolerant natives as possible considering how little rain we get these days. Planning a garden based on availability of water is such good advice. Thanks, Jessie and Jennie. I love both of your shows and look forward to your next conversation.
We partnered with Oregon State University this summer to dry farm tomatoes and melon this year. I was doubtful but the results were great. Are there any flowers that are dry farmed? I’m thinking tap root varieties would be best suited for this. We have clay soil, Portland Oregon area.
I love ALL No-Till Growers videos!
Water is free at the bottom of NZ for residential use. It would be like selling ice to Eskimos.
If water is such a cost what about digging a irrigation pond and pipe all grey water and rain water to it. 100,000 – 200,000m3 should last a few waterings. Pond liner is a lot cheaper than a tank. Very common in the dry area's here, 250mm+ sized pipes from the pump shed heading out to a lot of acres.
Stoked on you doing video podcasts now. Dreaming of another discussion with commonplace farm whenever that works out for everyone
Yes! Talk about exercise. Strength training is key! And everyone underestimates how heavy you have to lift to get stronger
Would doing puls watering at night also would help more. No sun to heat up the ground. Going to try that when I can.
Wow. No-Till flowers has some amazing content! I always breezed past it as a veg farmer, but you got me to scroll through the past episodes. Cant wait to dig in!
Very interesting! No really thought about this but now I need a pulse water!
In California, no rain from May to November. We are dry. Northern California has to give Southern California. It's every year. And every year it's debated and Northern California doesn't like to do it. And it's a political issue that the farmers have to deal with water being such a rare resource.
rain barrel good for a small area, not at all realistic for much
NRCS is a cost share, not a grant, and we have to quit confusing people with that because it creates a financial burden for unexpected folks. Ag wells are the ones that don’t typically need a permit as well.
@16:38 Explanation of pulse watering begins.
Never heard of pulse watering, interesting that it can work!
When they dug the well on our site, they went down 65', maybe a bit more. It was sand all the way down. Which means that on the elevated portions of our site, the water just drops down through the sand until it gets to the water table. On the flip side, our lower elevation areas are highly prone to vernal ponds where the water table rises above ground level. Which says to me that where I'm trying to grow crops in the elevated areas, pulse watering would make lots of sense.
Interesting! Thanks!
@Jennie Love ~25:00 something here does not make sense to me: Deducting the time it takes to fill the hoses? Then one should add the time it takes at the end of the watering cycle when the hoses are emptying again? Is that wrong? — I ❤ the Channel.
1) properly set up rain tanks should not be getting algae or gunk in them 2) with low pressure wells having large holding tanks like 2,000 gallons each and filling them overnight and when you are getting rain to hold it until you need it. 3) for sure it takes a huge amount of water to run even a small farm, even more here in the desert. My goats and chickens take about 100 gallons per day just for drinking alone.
From January the water will be a separate bill from the municipality where I live. I'm nervous about what it will mean for my gardening. We have had weeks and weeks of drought every summer for the last 5 years or so. We do get rain, but not when it really counts. My rain barrel cracked this winter and I need a new one. I'm using it as a makeshift compost bin for now. At least I'm in no danger of floods here. I'm grateful I don't lose my livelihood if my garden fails.