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  • From: Andy Fellenz <fellenz AT fltg.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Irrigation Systems
  • Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:41:54 -0400

Even though we had a fair amount of rain this season, I ended up spending too much time setting and moving sprinklers for irrigation. I'm still in the primitive phase of irrigating using hoses, lawn sprinklers and a well which can deliver 10 gpm. I'm starting to think of making some changes for next season which would reduce the amount of time spent moving hoses and sprinklers and allow me to cover more area at a time while irrigating.

Ideally, I would like to irrigate up to 1/2 acre at a time as this is the size of my strawberry patch and being able to do this would give me more frost protection than I get from crossing my fingers and thinking good thoughts. So what are recommendations for an irrigation set up which could do the following: irrigate 1/2 acre of berries, be relocatable to irrigate either 1/2 or 1/4 acre of vegetables at a time from either a well or a well + storage tank.

If I purchase a system, I will also be drilling a second well to increase my water capacity.


Andy




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