• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Devaka Cooray
  • Carla Burke
  • John F Dean
  • Nancy Reading
  • Timothy Norton
  • r ranson
stewards:
  • Jay Angler
  • Pearl Sutton
  • paul wheaton
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
  • M Ljin
gardeners:
  • thomas rubino
  • Eino Kenttä
  • Jeremy VanGelder

Irrigation

 
Posts: 56
8
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Hiya I'm a trainee grower in a market garden - we've got about 1.5 acres with 2 polytunnels. Anyway, we have no mains water only water from a well that is pumped up to a 1000l tank and fed into drip feeds that supply the polytunnels. Next year I want to collect the water from the tunnels and store them in IBCs. The question is am I limited to drip feeds or is there some technology out there that could pressurize the water so I could get overhead sprinklers in the tunnels?

Thanks in advance
 
Posts: 1670
Location: Fennville MI
83
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
There are pump sprayers available where you pressurize with a hand air pump. I should think you could fit something of hat sort on an IBC. Depending on exactly what fittings the IBC came with, it might even be possible to just screw on one of the pump units from the commercial sprayer.
 
You totally ruined the moon. You're gonna hafta pay for that you know. This tiny ad agrees:
Learn Permaculture through a little hard work
https://wheaton-labs.com/bootcamp
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic