It’s finally that time of year where we start to see some of the rewards of our hard work, the garden is coming to life!

This is only our second spring on the homestead, so we are still working on developing the health of our soil and figuring out what works and what doesn’t. Gardening at an elevation of 6,000ft can be a bit tricky at times, we are starting to get the hang of it. One year in and we are already growing food with the seeds we saved from last years harvest, that’s pretty exciting.

Watering Woes

One issue that we have ran into is watering. While we are pretty blessed to live in an area that gets plenty of rainfall, there are still certain times of the year when we just have to water the plants. Doing so in such a large space (100’x100’) can be a bit tricky though, especially when the faucet is not nearby.

The hubs has a pretty complex watering system designed for the future (think Arduino and sensors) that will minimize wasted water and save energy, but as many of you know, some things on the homestead take time. So, we needed something simple to solve the problem until then... our local tractor supply held the answer.

Yep, good ole soaker hose. We found a great deal on some and decided to use it to make customized drip irrigation for each row in the garden.

We cut the hoses to length for each row, then pieced the extra together to make sure nothing was wasted, using scrap metal tubing.

Then we put a Y valve on the end of each row, allowing us to water one or multiple rows at a time. This means I can turn the water on at the faucet and just flip the switch of which row I want to water... 🙌🏼

This has been such a time saver and the plants are getting watered more efficiently without excess waste... win-win. This combined with adding wood chips (that we are making ourselves here on the homestead) has really helped with the overall health of the garden.

I love when you can find a simple solution to help solve a problem on the homestead!

Thank you for reading,

Happy Homesteading

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