Sub-surface watering can reduce weeding and watering by up to 90%, resultiung in less weed pressure and more water conservation. In today’s episode I will be discussing 3 different methods of sub-surface watering.
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Nice job like always this might help me a lot 😀
You do a great job.. Thanks for keeping us informed ..
Hey, cool! Thanks so much. I like your other idea a lot, Core Gardening, which I’m going to try this year.
Thank you precious soul!
How do you feel about burying the flat black plastic drip tape? I have seen gardeners put it on the surface and some that bury it. I want to set up irrigation, but don’t have a ton of money. Love your seeds. They are all I buy now. 💕
Thank s. 👍
Get a big plastic coffee can, drill 4-5 nail sized holes around the bottom of the can. Bury the can so the lid is an inch from ground level. Open the lid, fill with water, put the lid back on. Repeat until fall. Add miracle grow to water bucket to fertilize once a week or so. Fill water buckets as soon as you empty them so they can get rid of chlorine for the next day. I call this the Folger system. They can last for years.
My heavy Pennsylvania clay soil gets mushy (and stays that way for a while) after a decent rain. I was thinking I could use 4" corrugated perforated pipe with a silt barrier under the beds to act as a reservoir to collect the water, and in dry times fill the pipe to add to the core material. If I could trap that rain water in the pipe it would reduce run-off as well and concentrate the water in the raised bed. I've seen a couple videos using this in raised beds but not actually capturing rainfall. Thoughts?
Thank you for mentioning the freezing issue with the pots. I live in the Jonesville MI area and love and look forward to each of your videos on you tube.!
I actually came across these last month and bought two medium size ollas for my tall raised bed that I have a hard time keeping well watered. The seem to be working great so far, and my watering has decreased. Will get getting more for other parts of my garden where I can't get my drip into.
Thank you MiGardener! Good info! As always!
Thanks, with the increasing dry summers in Aotearoa/NZ I"m having to search for inexpensive ways of watering. With the core gardening, I'm concerned about breaking up the generally undisturbed soil, as I use the no dig method, and yet this is a way of keeping my garden beds from drying out. Dilemma. I like the idea of the oyas as they stay in the ground and have been considering placing some in my ornamental or perennial garden beds. Expensive here though, so will see if a potter friend could make some for me.
I think is a great idea if get no rain for a period of time otherwise is useless IMO.
I made some ollas from clay flowerpots.
Thank you so much for this information. I am leaning and. This helps me a lot even for indoor plants
This was SO INTERESTING! I had no idea these things existed. Thanks for showing us this! I always learn so much from you, Luke!
Olla??? 🤯🤯🤯 grandma mekes those things ..i need pick up some
I love this idea! Thanks for sharing Luke!