Re: ot water

Posted by PhilcaseinWPA on June 11, 2007 at 05:13:16 from (146.186.55.156):

In Reply to: Re: ot water posted by Dave from MN on June 11, 2007 at 04:31:07:

Drip irrigation is also called trickle irrigation. It essentially means delivering water to the plant via a small tube that has some type of emmiters along its length. The concept is that water can be supplied near the plants roots thus saving water as compared to overhead (sprinkler) or flood irrigation. With the drip tubes buried under plastic mulch the loss of water by evaporation is also cut down. I think that with this system and our heavy clay soils I use 1/3 - 1/2 less water than i would with another system. I have a machine I pull behind the tractor that burries the drip tape and lays the mulch in one pass. The drip tape I use is 6 mil T-Tape. It comes in a 10000 ft roll and costs less than 2 cents per foot. Go to our farm's blog and I think my daughter posted a video of the plastic and drip being laid.
http://doudsfloydfarm.blogspot.com
You'll see my wife does most of the work, I only drive!
Phil

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