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Re: [Market-farming] drip tape (was Vole Salad Bar)
- From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] drip tape (was Vole Salad Bar)
- Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 15:00:48 -0500
Old drip tape is great for stapling plastic to the end
walls. We are also trying it this year in place of rope to hold the sidewalls in
(those vertical pieces of rope you tie on every so often on the outside, to keep
the sides from billowing out).
Beth Spaugh
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From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Road's End Farm Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 1:13 PM To: Market Farming Subject: Re: [Market-farming] drip tape (was Vole Salad Bar) On Mar 1, 2010, at 12:48 PM, <clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com>
wrote:
I don't know how "efficiently" we do it, but we do re-use drip tape;
sometimes we roll it back up by hand into a bundle, sometimes we roll it back up
onto an empty drip tape roll hub, sometimes we just pick it up and move it over
still at full length (easiest with one person on each end, and if you don't have
to go too far; it can be moved to field edge or between beds while you till, and
then moved back in to where you want it in that field/bed or the next. -- note
few of our runs are longer than 200'.)
If you search, you can probably find plans for various home-made drip tape
roller mechanisms; the only one I have to hand is a rather idiosyncratic
technique involving an old hub and a garden cart that we came up with a couple
of years ago, but don't always use. If you can find old hose reels, they might
be useful.
If you buy the lightest weight tape, it won't stand up to this as well as
if you buy heavier; but I've found 10 mil tape will generally be reusable for
two to three years if we don't hit it with the rototiller, or hit it too often
with the weeding tools. I do recommend being prepared to spend more time than
when laying new -- some of the lines may have sprung leaks -- and laying in a
good supply of splices -- but, when the tape has finally had it, it's possible
to recover the splices for further use before tossing the worn out tape.
It occurs to me: we're still laying new tape every year under plastic; much
of our production isn't in plastic, and we use the old drip tape for the rows
not in plastic. To be able to re-lay it under plastic, you'd need to have it
rolled up neatly enough to work with the equipment, and it's both harder to find
leaks and a bigger nuisance to cut and splice tape when it's under the plastic
than when it's just laid on the surface. -- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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Re: [Market-farming] Cold Frame Advice Sought
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Re: [Market-farming] Cold Frame Advice Sought,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 03/01/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Cold Frame Advice Sought,
Thomas Patrick Hurtgen, 03/01/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Cold Frame Advice Sought, Allan.Balliett, 03/01/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Cold Frame Advice Sought, Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 03/01/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Cold Frame Advice Sought,
Thomas Patrick Hurtgen, 03/01/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Cold Frame Advice Sought,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 03/01/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] drip tape (was Vole Salad Bar),
Road's End Farm, 03/01/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Keeping the heat in a high tunnel,
Celeste Illgner Havener, 03/01/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Keeping the heat in a high tunnel, Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 03/01/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] drip tape (was Vole Salad Bar), Barking Cat Farm, 03/01/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] drip tape (was Vole Salad Bar),
Beth Spaugh, 03/01/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] drip tape (was Vole Salad Bar),
Allan.Balliett, 03/02/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] drip tape (was Vole Salad Bar),
E C GRANATA, 03/02/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] drip tape (was Vole Salad Bar), Beth Spaugh, 03/02/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] drip tape (was Vole Salad Bar),
E C GRANATA, 03/02/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] drip tape (was Vole Salad Bar),
Allan.Balliett, 03/02/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Keeping the heat in a high tunnel,
Celeste Illgner Havener, 03/01/2010
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