They sell the irrigation hose you could easily lay out. Any home improvement or gardening store would have them. Otherwise the household lawn sprinkler systems are just PVC, a timer, and a valve, bury the pipe as deep as you want if you think it would work for your application. You can get those rotating sprinkler heads that cover a pretty large area.
> You can get those rotating sprinkler heads that cover a pretty large area.
Don’t get those OP. Use a buried pipe or irrigation hose, and water locally close to the stems/roots of your crops. If you’re going to use a sprinkler in the sun then most of the water will evaporate before it reaches the roots. Also try to do most of the watering just before sunrise and/or just after sunset
use a bucket and a smaller thing to scoop water from bucket and put on plants >you can have a measured amount of water >the water goes right down the plants reducing water for weeds >costs $0-5
>Not doing aerophonics with fishes in 2022
Just joking, loop up drip irrigation. Sprinklers are for the lawn. For trees I just made rings with holes. HDPE-pipes are fun.
OP how big is this "field of dirt" in your backyard, and do you have a reliable water source like a well, city water, or water rights on an irrigation canal?
It's a great time to buy, my friend
Everything is half price for the off-season
Hose splitter
Pressure regulator/back flow preventer
Timer
A lot of 1/2 inch supply tubing
A bunch of 1/2" to 1/4" fittings
A bunch of 1/4" tubing and drip emitters OR 1/4" tubing with built-in emitters every 6 or 12 inches
Use a deep square shovel
Cut into and flip over the grass everywhere you're going to plant, so the grass is facing down and the dirt is on top
Spread compost
Plant
Mulch with hay or grass
Irrigate
take a thicc hose bundle, collect rain water in a barrel, puncture the barrel at the bottom and screw in that hole a valve
at one side you have a barrel that is open and collects rain water, at the other side you attack the thicc hose
depending on how many tomatoes you want to grow, count the rows, one other hose for one row
get a T splitter for the thicc hose if many rows
attack another T splitter each row and put the large thicc hose for each row on the ground
if you have 20 rows, have 20 long hoses stemming with T splitters from the OG hose at the barrel.
plug all the hoses with wooden stakes, stakes bigger diameter than the thicc hose
at each tomato plant, PUNCTURE a hole IN the hose at the side where the tomato plant will be
ERECT the barrel on a stool or table to be ABOVE the ground and hopefully ABOVE the YOUNG tomato NEVER Old
and just wait for rain
release
drip drip drip pissss everywhere
Or dont, wait for rain to pass and if no rain, pour WATER. INTO THE BARREL. and THEN release the VALVE AGAIN
They sell the irrigation hose you could easily lay out. Any home improvement or gardening store would have them. Otherwise the household lawn sprinkler systems are just PVC, a timer, and a valve, bury the pipe as deep as you want if you think it would work for your application. You can get those rotating sprinkler heads that cover a pretty large area.
> great sun exposure
> You can get those rotating sprinkler heads that cover a pretty large area.
Don’t get those OP. Use a buried pipe or irrigation hose, and water locally close to the stems/roots of your crops. If you’re going to use a sprinkler in the sun then most of the water will evaporate before it reaches the roots. Also try to do most of the watering just before sunrise and/or just after sunset
>just before sunrise
Why,
What's wrong with the middle of the day?
Water evaporates from the surface more. Also possibly thermal shock for the plants, but mostly the first one.
use a bucket and a smaller thing to scoop water from bucket and put on plants
>you can have a measured amount of water
>the water goes right down the plants reducing water for weeds
>costs $0-5
Brb going to water my 500 lettuces with a bucket and a cup. Back in 2025
>Not doing aerophonics with fishes in 2022
Just joking, loop up drip irrigation. Sprinklers are for the lawn. For trees I just made rings with holes. HDPE-pipes are fun.
Ah the Johnny Bravo valve
OP how big is this "field of dirt" in your backyard, and do you have a reliable water source like a well, city water, or water rights on an irrigation canal?
6 feet by 40 feet. Municipal water
So not a "field" more like a small patch of dirt.
>6x40
bucket and cup
No time to do it manually because i have to wage slave
pipes, pumps, fittings, and water, anon.
It's a great time to buy, my friend
Everything is half price for the off-season
Hose splitter
Pressure regulator/back flow preventer
Timer
A lot of 1/2 inch supply tubing
A bunch of 1/2" to 1/4" fittings
A bunch of 1/4" tubing and drip emitters OR 1/4" tubing with built-in emitters every 6 or 12 inches
Use a deep square shovel
Cut into and flip over the grass everywhere you're going to plant, so the grass is facing down and the dirt is on top
Spread compost
Plant
Mulch with hay or grass
Irrigate
take a thicc hose bundle, collect rain water in a barrel, puncture the barrel at the bottom and screw in that hole a valve
at one side you have a barrel that is open and collects rain water, at the other side you attack the thicc hose
depending on how many tomatoes you want to grow, count the rows, one other hose for one row
get a T splitter for the thicc hose if many rows
attack another T splitter each row and put the large thicc hose for each row on the ground
if you have 20 rows, have 20 long hoses stemming with T splitters from the OG hose at the barrel.
plug all the hoses with wooden stakes, stakes bigger diameter than the thicc hose
at each tomato plant, PUNCTURE a hole IN the hose at the side where the tomato plant will be
ERECT the barrel on a stool or table to be ABOVE the ground and hopefully ABOVE the YOUNG tomato NEVER Old
and just wait for rain
release
drip drip drip pissss everywhere
Or dont, wait for rain to pass and if no rain, pour WATER. INTO THE BARREL. and THEN release the VALVE AGAIN
>collect rain water