Great job on the burner template. I'm going to do that as a 4 row 4 bulb design for garlic.

This is my planned set up exactly. Thanks for the video...

@redfoxranch3244

2 жыл бұрын

It really worked well for me. This year I divided the drip tape into 3 separate zones on a 3 independent valve timer. This should give me much better control over how much water goes to the tomato’s section, the corn section, and the misc. section. I found last year some of the zones needed more water at times and others needed almost none but I had no way to regulate that in my last setup. Now I do! Good luck with your garden sir. Thanks for watching.

I tried Red Snapper and Bella Rosa last year. They were a lot alike but I think Bella Rosa's my favorite now. I just thought another good thing about a greenhouse is pest control. Great looking farmland.

@redfoxranch3244

2 жыл бұрын

Did you have any problems with Red Snapper? I had real bad blossom end rot despite supplying lots of calcium to them. I did not have any blossom end rot in all of the other varieties I grew. I’m really considering building a high tunnel for tomatoes. I think your right, it should help reduce pest issues.

@tomjones4318

2 жыл бұрын

​@@redfoxranch3244 Red Snapper performed much like Bella Rosa and Summer Pick for me last year. It was new ground a lot of clay with compost and ash mixed in good. But it was the wettest summer in a very long time. So many tomatoes failed before they could be harvested. I threw at least 50 softball size tomatoes in the woods. No blossom end rot though. Clay is great for micronutrients. I understand blossom end rot as the inability of the plant to take up calcium rather than a lack of calcium in the soil if that helps. I still add some at planting though. I use a copper anti fungal solution LiquiCop as needed. The plants stayed healthy just way too much rain. Planted Bella Rosa heavy this year and trying Roadster. I like five foot T-posts with Florida weave Bella Rosa stays in that space a little better than Red Snapper. My best advice is lots of compost and rotate every year. Rotation takes lots of space though. This is my third year I got lots of good starter info from Hoss Tools here on YT. This year is extremely dry in central Alabama so looks like a bumper crop. Weather is uneven now so we all need a greenhouse. I'm too busy clearing trees for now for more sunlight. Texas Prepper may be in your area he's in the green part of the state too.

Tried Orbit timers?..... lots of positive reviews, mine is outstanding 18+ months on battery changes, and in a protective housing like that should last many years! Perhaps too much sediment in water is jamming timers up inside??

@johnrafferty8664

Жыл бұрын

I have not tried Orbit yet but will in the future. Your prob right about sediment now that I think about it. I have a whole home filter on the water going to the house but the garden water comes out before going through that filter!

Do you put the drip lines down first under the mesh, and then blowtorch the holes, or do you pull back all the mesh and then lay drip lines, and put back on the mesh?

@redfoxranch3244

11 күн бұрын

I was torching the holes on a patch of land next to the garden where there was no drip tape. I wouldn't risk burning the holes with drip tape under the fabric, if the drip tape was laid on top of the ground. If the drip tape was buried in the ground it shouldn't be a problem to torch the holes. I have done drip tape in both ways, underground and on top of the ground. I prefer it on top of the ground these days.

Where did you get the aluminum template? I can’t find anything like that

@redfoxranch3244

11 күн бұрын

I had a local metal shop punch the aluminum plate for me. Let me know if you want one and the spacing and hole size you want and I can see what it would cost.

Can you put the drip tape on top?

@johnrafferty8664

Жыл бұрын

You sure can. I did it on top this last growing season. It worked out ok, just put some stakes in it every so often to hold it in place.

if you tilled that soil than layed the fabric on top how is it you not sinking down into the soil as you kneeing and burning holes???.....i used to leave huge holes as i walked on my fabric and water would puddle where i walked on

@elliottpeabody1287

Жыл бұрын

After tilling, try rolling it with a lawn roller (filled with water).

When do you add fertilizer?

@redfoxranch3244

11 күн бұрын

I use a fertilizer injector that is designed for drip tape. You use water soluble fertilizer and it runs it out through the drip tape. Many other products can be found in water soluble form, calcium, potassium, etc. Works pretty good.

Are fire ants getting under the fabric a problem? Additionally, what about snakes?

@redfoxranch3244

11 күн бұрын

I do see ants sometimes but they don't appear to be fore ants. No, never seen a snake. After a while the fabric gets pretty much attached to the soil so there is not much room under there and I would imagine its hot!