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"These lines are working perfectly, they're not clogged at all."
"Watering more, less often is the key to efficient watering."
"Making sure that it's hitting the next sprinkler."
"Something that has made life easy in here in the greenhouse is I put in a drip line."
"An important aspect is that it must be filled with rainwater or well water that does not contain chlorine."
"So far I've been really impressed with how well this has been working because other than that storm, we haven't watered this not one time, and these potatoes are just growing like crazy out here."
"Do install shut off valves on each of your raised beds or on each of your rows or each of your zones."
"So the great thing about soaker hoses is they're kind of water permeable and instead of emitter hoses where you have holes every 9 to 18 inches a soaker hose will kind of seep water out through the entire length of the hose."
"Putting in a drip system doesn't mean you're done forever but it sure makes it easier."
"Watering technology plays a pivotal role in sugar cane cultivation, optimizing resource use and enhancing crop health."
"I'm thankful for this drip irrigation. It has been very handy."
"So, building a marsh. You plant the corn, let the corn grow. Then the farmer can harvest what he wants. But then I'll leave like strips of standing corn. Then you fill it full of water."
"The canat system was another ingenious method of water management and irrigation that originated in ancient Persia over 2,200 years ago."
"How do you apply it to the soil? You just water it. Put it in watering systems, an irrigation line, a water cannon, or sprayers used for liquid fertilizer."
"Farmers often use irrigation systems to ensure a continuous supply of water drip irrigation is the most suitable irrigation method for coconuts."
"Test the flow rate of your water source. This will tell you how many emitters you can feed in your garden."
"Here's our button drippers these are the parts that will actually deliver water directly to the plants."
"The lemon jade can take the full sun because that's what it's going to get all day long, and I didn't even run a dripper to it."
"Over the past 1,300 years, any ethnic group living on this incredible remote land has developed an impressive and complex system of channels to bring water from forested mountaintops to terraces."
"That will actually go into this like Reservoir and then over the summer when it's not being used the farmers and stuff are going to use it for their fields for watering their crops and stuff like that."
"One of the reasons we recommend using poly pipe up to 300 feet is due to the weight it's able to install by hand."
"I think this is a cool tool, I think it's pretty revolutionary to the above ground irrigation game."
"I'm actually producing my own wheel line."
"Abundant irrigation can shut down certain soil-borne problems like Fusarium."
"...plants need irrigation sometimes, especially in a raised bed like this, you can't rely on the rain alone."
"So it does serve a couple purposes. One is that weed management, but two, because this side is dry farm, so we don't irrigate, it really helps hold in the moisture."
"The second tool is a moisture sensor that gives farmers real-time feedback and allows them to adjust their irrigation schedule manually. This solar powered sensor can help farmers to analyze farmland more accurately, assessing soil type, drainage rate, and weather patterns."
"You want to turn on the valve and you want to absolutely verify that that is the one that's watering the area that you are intending to water."
"Drip irrigation is a huge time saver and also a big money saver."
"Not only is this power important for the local region, but the controlled levels of water are used to irrigate around 273 square miles of land downstream."
"The completion of the new dam at Aswan finally gave control over these flood waters and it's meant that the flow can be regulated and used for irrigation and energy production at the same time."
"It's really all about that irrigation."
"Now that I have irrigation and hose access, I feel like I can really start planting things."
"...it's been a couple of years and typically we need to replace our drip every year or every other year... they plug up the emitters."
"South Africa practices a lot of large-scale farming, including irrigation in places with insufficient rain."
"Wicking beds are a growing sealed grain container that's got a water reservoir in the bottom portion of it and a growing medium in the upper portion."
"These heads can throw, depending on your water pressure, if you have around 60 psi, they're gonna be able to throw 30 feet in any direction."
"The number one thing that customers can do to improve their watering experience is to perform a simple catch cup test."
"If you want to grow a whole big Garden, you make the investment, install a water system, and then you can water all sorts of gardens."
"These things are going to become a reality because of this solar pump."
"The most valuable thing that you can do to increase your crop performance is not foliar sprays and fertigation, it's to make sure that your crop has enough water every single day."
"Those little bell siphons are fantastic at regulating the flow in and out of the grow bed."
"Don't worry if irrigation seems a little intimidating, please don't be because you do not need any kind of plumbing skills for this very simple system."
"Efficient irrigation is key to maximizing yield."
"There's a do-it-yourself gravity-fed drip irrigation. I like it."
"I'm going to run drip irrigation to all of my container garden plants."
"It goes to show you how well gravity actually works when building a drip irrigation system."
"If we didn't have these canals, everywhere we live would be dust, and everything green that you see is because of the canals that you walk by every day."
"Well-drained soil, plant on drip irrigation."
"Of all the recent advances in American farming, one of the greatest is portable sprinkler irrigation."
"You'll feed two, three, and even four times as many head of cattle per acre on your irrigated pasture."
"The All-American Canal, which by the way, is the biggest irrigation canal in the entire world."
"The early farmers of this culture seem to have dug irrigation canals to bring nearby rivers and streams under their control."
"Thousands of years ago, Ma'rib was a paradise; they built a great dam in the 8th Century BC that captured monsoon rains coming down the nearby mountains and irrigated the land around the city."
"My personal recommendation is a drip system because I feel like it's more efficient and it's better for the plants."
"They dug out canals, piled the land to create dams, and introduced a gating system so they could control the flow of water."
"Spain's population is believed to have tripled in the two centuries following the Muslim conquest and this was made possible in large measure by the large scale introduction of sophisticated techniques of irrigation again from the Near East."
"It's really important to have a few things in your irrigation that are well thought out and necessary."
"Do things once, do it right, and once you have your irrigation in place, you can't look back and go, 'Oh, I wish I put my line from the right area.'"
"The more often you water, the more wet to dry cycles you get, the higher performance."
"Water obviously moves easier in sandy soils than it does in clay soils."
"The best time to irrigate if it's possible is between 2:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m."
"The capillary action helps to drop water into the planter and allow for even growth and small rooted plants to get the perfect amount of water."
"When you irrigate, it means that you put water on the crop so that it will grow."
"A drip irrigation system is a low pressure watering system that will put water directly where it needs to be in the soil."
"A drip system is going to allow you to put a drip emitter right next to those plants, right where they need to be."
"Drip irrigation is easy to forget about, so I use a timer."
"Getting started with drip irrigation is not difficult."
"Drip irrigation is the best and easiest thing I've found over the last seven-eight years of gardening."
"This drip irrigation system saves me a ton of time and I believe money in the long run."
"It's amazing to me how just taking a minute out of your day to set a container up on drip or to fix drip in an area will save you so much stress over the season."
"Water's vitally important to vegetables and fruits when they're growing."
"They became masters of irrigation."
"We've been checking on our water pump for the drip system, that's been running nice and smooth."
"A rain sensor is an essential part of a water conserving irrigation system to interrupt automatic operation during wet weather."
"It's crucial to pay attention to the nozzles on the rotors to ensure matched precipitation in the watering area."
"There went up a mist from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground."
"The precious liquid is carried Underground through a vast network of small pipes directly to the roots of the vegetation."
"Every time we water, we want a half inch of water going down."
"It's an irrigation system that works without the need for electricity and keeps your plants at optimal moisture content throughout the grow."
"There's a beautiful large pond, and it is the place where all of the water comes for the irrigation pool of the fruit trees."
"By keeping the moisture in that bottom five and ten percent zone, make sure that the rest of the media stays dry."
"Berries are 85 to 95 percent water, so we want to make sure that the timing and supply of our irrigation water is adequate enough to support a full berry crop."
"They would divert river flow, they would trap them in Weir's which are like baskets that catch things or in damming a river they could then use that for irrigation of crops which was phenomenal engineering at the time."
"You cannot possibly over water an Aqua Pot, and it will have 24/7 access to that fertilizer-infused water."
"Checking the water that your garden has is the best tool that you have."
"Something beautiful about irrigation that makes it feel good."
"The flooding of the River Nile was really useful for the ancient Egyptians, and they used that flood water to their advantage."
"It is very important that we have good water irrigating the soil to provide the life force for all the different microbes."
"Intuitively, they're talking about irrigation: you're going to sense, analyze, and act according to our general automation model."
"This hydraulic civilization of the Pollonaruwa kingdom, a society organized around the system of irrigation, collapsed."
"We have good arable land, reasonable rainfall, and rivers and tributaries that can be tapped for irrigation."
"This ensures plants receive the water they need to grow and improves agricultural productivity."
"When it comes to watering your trees, you want to make sure that you water thoroughly and water deeply."
"The permanent production of vegetables we need to have an irrigated system."
"By irrigating at night, you can have a slight reduction in evaporative losses."
"I was really surprised to see such a large-scale agricultural irrigation system; it can cover large areas in one go."