316 - New Irrigation Set-Up (4 types of drip systems, automation, & timer options)

The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy

Jill McSheehy

Gardening, Garden, How To, Education, Organicgardening, Home & Garden, Leisure, Homegardening, Beginninggardener, Vegetablegardening

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🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This week we’re talking all about irrigation! With things heating up this summer, it might be time to start thinking about a more hands off way to water your garden.

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0:00.0	Hey there and good morning. I'm saying good morning regardless of when you're listening to this
0:05.1	because I'm recording this at not even 6.30 in the morning and it's raining outside. I'm really
0:12.0	excited about this because it's been kind of a dry start to the summer. We went for three weeks
0:17.9	without rain from May to early June, which is really not customary
0:23.4	for us. Usually I don't have to worry too much about getting my irrigation lines set until late
0:29.7	May or June, but this year I definitely had to get them set up sooner, and I'm glad that I did.
0:36.4	My crops are thriving, and I think part of that is because I'm
0:39.4	finally dialing in the irrigation system to my big garden and also I'm making some changes to
0:47.1	my kitchen garden this year. Irrigation is a question I get a lot especially when you are dealing with times of dryness and you know
0:56.2	that you need to supplement and you really get tired of hand watering. I hear you. That's why I have
1:02.6	tried to put as much of my garden on automation as possible, but it hasn't always worked out the best, and've realized that over the years I realized that I was
1:14.3	severely underwatering my garden. I'm going to talk to you a little bit more about that in depth
1:19.2	in today's episode but specifically I'm going to talk to you about the changes that I made this
1:24.6	year to the way I irrigate my garden. Between my main garden, which is probably
1:30.8	about 3,000 square feet, I probably need to measure it again, but it's got a combination of raised
1:34.8	beds and ground beds in that. And my kitchen garden, I now have a combination of drip lines,
1:41.6	drip tape, the Garden and Minutes Garden Grid, and the
1:44.8	greenstock automatic watering system. So I've got a little bit of everything, and today I'm
1:50.4	going to be sharing with you how I'm using each of them, how I put them all on automation,
1:56.5	the mishaps along the way or the challenges that I encountered and how I, or shall I say,
2:01.9	how my husband and I overcame them because I'm not always the most technical person. He's
2:08.1	definitely more skilled in that area. But I'm going to share all that with you and also what I've
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