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  • From: Richard Stewart <rstewart AT zoomtown.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] High Heat Summer Lettuce Test Project
  • Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:49:52 -0400

Currently being fed from a clean spring so I have never had filtering issues.  When I go to feed from water catchment then I'll have a filter at the pump end.

I picked these up from the Drip Store online just to play around with them.  Not too sure who the manufacturer is.  Will get back on more details at a later date in regards to actual construction and related details.

Richard Stewart
Carriage House Farm
North Bend, Ohio

An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855

(513) 967-1106

On Jun 23, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Allan Balliett wrote:

how do you filter for those misters?

looks like a COOL IDEA!

Who supplies the nozzles?

Good luck and THANKS!

-Allan in WV

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Richard Stewart <rstewart AT zoomtown.com> wrote:
The heat came on early this year and we went from producing about 140# a
week of leafy greens to just Kale and Swiss Chard (all on drip).  We were,
at our high point, producing new salad mix at about 60# per week average.
 We've done a half ton so far not including what we sell at market and move
through our volunteers...and my belly.

Now its bone dry and while we have a nice window of cool (but dry weather)
coming up, I am figuring that unlike like last year I better plan for a more
traditional hot summer.  Drip won't work well and I hate the waste of open
air water guns and sprinklers.  So I have this idea.

Seed the beds, place the hoops, run a 1/4" line of micro tubing with high
flow (2 GPH) misters every 2' along the top of the hoop and then cover with
30% shadecloth.

Did the first bed yesterday.
Anyone else try something similar to this?  The cost of the stuff isn't too
bad when you figure most of it is in shade cloth and the hoops we already
have.  The first 30' test bed took me about an hour and a half to build.
 FOr the time being, so I did not have to worry about splicing this into an
existing .70 drip tape feeder line I ment ahead and placed a compression
3/4" garden hose adapter onto the end of the 1/4" line.  It works awesome so
far.  Temperature underneath the cloth from the misters and the light
reduction is fantastic and the cloth sort of the contains the moisture in a
light breeze so little is lost.  At 12 emitters putting out 24GPH on a 30'
bed that is 6' across with 4" separation in lettuce rows I think the water
works out very well.

Thoughts?

Pictures are here:
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/34135950@N03/sets/72157630249127654/


Richard Stewart
Carriage House Farm
North Bend, Ohio

An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855

(513) 967-1106
http://www.carriagehousefarmllc.com
rstewart AT zoomtown.com


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