This Durable Drip Tape Was a Game-Changer for Our Garden!

[@sarajseiberthesavannahdarter]

Hi I'm in South Georgia near Savannah and I have grown garlic for a couple seasons. I'm still pretty new to gardening but I've never put my garlic in the fridge. I grow a soft neck variety and so far have had 100% germination rate and a decent harvest. I've seen where some people have done some side by side of refrigerated vs unrefrigerated and gotten better results not putting it in the refrigerator. Happy harvesting.

[@jcdesignsandboat-works8290]

This was my first year vernalizing my garlic. I planted everything brassicas, onions, mustards, turnips, carrots, beets, kale, sugar snap peas, and some other stuff all be seed on Nov. 7th down here in west central Fl. I am saving for a seeder/weeder combo kit and plan on switching from drip tube above ground to buried drip tape like you use. Keep the videos coming!👏🏻

[@karencovington9960]

I live in Alabama (plant my veggies using an Auburn bucket 😁) and I plant my hardneck garlic in a raised bed in November. I have never put mine in the fridge before planting. I usually get a good yield.

[@mit238]

Howdy Travis, I just recently planted 2 varieties of softneck and one elephant. I had them in the frig for 2 months, called vernalization btw, and they are now sprouting. However, I also planted about 6 softneck cloves of the same variety that I did not refrigerate, and about a week later planting. They are also now sprouting, so that's my experiment and we'll see. Btw, I'm in Zone 8b/9a in S Texas.

[@gardeningsimplified]

I never refrigerant my garlic, and always have a good stratified crop. I've always used the 15 mil drip tape, but I switched it 6 inch spacing a few years ago. I also went with smaller emitters so I could water more of my garden at one time.

[@reneebaranoski9576]

The fridge prep is necessary in so cal where i live, i already did that experiment. You probably get colder there then here but i think refrigeratoring before planting is the sure fire way to go. More emmiters is going to be beneficial for your soil microbes. They need moisture to do their thing so a more even watering will help.

[@sandraoconnor5700]

Our Zone 8 weather is so versatile that, with care, I think we can grow just about anything thank God!! All your garlic should grow beautifully ❤❤❤

[@davidwho8215]

I have been using that tape for a couple years now. I use the 6 inch quite a bit, but also use their 24 inch spacing tape.

[@fredriebel6176]

Travis, my daughter wanted to plant garlic last year and didn’t really know how so she planted the whole garlic and they all sprouted and then I helped her separate them and plant into a row. She grew good garlic with no refrigeration or dividing .

[@DV-ol7vt]

I’m Zone 8 in Texas and I’ve been planting garlic for 20 yrs and I never put in the fridge until this year after watching your garlic planting video. I plant my garlic in October and I don’t think the Fridge makes a difference but I plant a old Texas variety.

[@jksatte]

Are you planting hardneck or softneck? I would guess softneck but someone in TX is having luck with hardneck but I can't remember who it is to ask the variety lol. I'm in FL btw.

[@DV-ol7vt]

@@jksatte yes, it is a soft neck variety

[@SilkiesPb]

I have great success with growing garlic without putting it in the fridge. Grew both softneck and hard neck last season and did the same thing this year.

[@whitestone4401]

I’m in Michigan and last year I tried planting some garlic in the Spring. We normally plant late Fall. It did great, harvested shortly after the garlic I planted in the Fall. A couple of the heads hadn’t stratified yet, but, still was tasty garlic.

[@SH-gd9uq]

Thank you for all the wonderful and informative videos Travis. They keep me pumping out the best groceries. Merry Christmas to you and your family. I can’t wait till we get into the Spring time videos!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Merry Christmas!

[@mikeh8374]

I didn't pull the fridge trick on my hard neck garlic and it's doing great so far.

[@pilsplease7561]

I did then I got days and nights in the 40's and 50's down to 28 one night in cali lol so my garlic has been naturally getting vernalized i got a cold snap and leaves turned yellow the funny thing is im a warm climate and my hardneck always grows and softneck struggles never really got good softneck. Which is the opposite of conventional wisdom.

[@mikeh8374]

@@pilsplease7561 I think it's like a pot luck dinner, sometimes you win sometimes you lose.

[@michaeldenney5016]

Hi Travis. Throughly enjoy your content. I have questions on drip irrigation. 1. How do you determine length of time to run the drip line? 2. What is your system to fertilize through the drip lines? 3. How do you determine the amount of fertilizer to use when using drip lines. I look forward to any videos on these questions and if you have already made videos on this please point me in the right direction. Thanks.

[@petpawteek8776]

Thanks for this, Travis. I’m literally filling my cart with aaaaaaaall the drip supplies this week and I’ve been struggling with thickness and emitter spacing. This was timely and so helpful.

[@BradyWHaynie]

Love you channel!

[@SH-gd9uq]

Yesss! Me too! Love the vids!

[@rellstanton07]

I don't cold stratify my garlic and it does fine. Zone 8 central MS

[@dvrmte]

I'm glad I don't need drip irrigation. I rarely water more than a couple times per year, other than transplants. The exception is watermelons but I don't usually plant but a few hills. I put down some form of irrigation under the black plastic, usually a shortened piece of sprinkler hose. Watermelons get watered about once per week if we don't get rain. I can also inject fertilizer into the irrigation water. Ya'll go ahead though. I know you need drip irrigation. I don't know anywhere else but the low country than can have 10 inches of rain one day and it's gone the next. That would be a major flood up here, even washing out bridges, and have people water skiing on Main St., etc.

[@biblgrl6563]

I might have missed the info, but what is the gph of the emitter holes?

[@LazyDogFarm]

The gph values for drip tape is per 100' -- not per emitter. For this tape, it is 0.45 gph.

[@79PoisonBreaker]

you may not get heads but it will still be good garlic to cook with .

[@matthewking2209]

I think you will do fine.

[@INeedABeatDJ]

What GPH do you use on your 15 mil drip tape? For In Ground & Raised Beds? Thx

[@LazyDogFarm]

I think the one we use is around 0.45 GPH

[@joeyl.rowland4153]

Always a chance.

[@mikecabe6127]

Hey Travis, I planted my onions on each side of my drip tape......should I put my fertilizer down the middle of the row (which would be on top of my tape) or put it down each side of the rows? I can't wait to see how my onions turn out. Thanks, Mike C.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I like to put it down each side of the double row.

[@shirleyk623]

I purchased my soft neck garlic from Baker Creek seed company, I hope they did the refrigerating process before selling it to me if it was needed. It's about 8" to 10" tall now. Do you fertilize your garlic between now and harvest time? Here in Florida zone 9b I've been using Agro thrive 3-3-5 and Epsoma garden tone along with muriate of potash. If you do fertilize how often? This is only the second time I've grown garlic. The first time was a failure. Thanks for your help.😊😊😊😊

[@LazyDogFarm]

It's tough to overfertilize garlic. Keep feeding it and it should reward you.

[@thekaylornator]

There's always "a chance". 😜

[@Chris-op7yt]

i'm still on my first roll of the 8mm drip tape, and i find it pretty difficult to secure onto the valve takeoff. so thin and fiddly. maybe one day i'll switch to the thicker type trip tape. is there any tricks to unclogging emitters? usually the first one after takeoff seem to clog. mainline tubing is much easier to get onto fittings if you dip it in hot water.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Haven't had any issues with emitters clogging. My filter will clog sometimes.

[@jasperthomas8048]

Thanks Travis. So for raised beds, drip tape or tubing?

[@LazyDogFarm]

I use both. But if it had to pick just one for raised beds, I'd probably go with tubing.

[@CliffWarren]

I was about to ask, how do you store all that stuff for the winter, when I realized that you don’t have to! I love it, but it’s a mess to store. You may ask, why store it at all? If I leave it out, critters like to chew up the header tubing. They don’t touch the drip lines, but the header tubing will be full of holes chewed right through in the spring. Also, on the couplings, critters (skunks primarily) love to chew up the green plastic. I don’t know why, must be something that they smell. Well, I’ll continue to live vicariously through you until I can get out there in March or April.

[@donnalovintexas8760]

I heard some wire coating has peanut oil in the component. (A friend had mice chewing her car wires under the hood,. We live in the country) The drip line and parts may have something like that also.

[@littlebiscuit53]

A herd of cats in my neighborhood will hang out and chew on my drip lines. They love chasing the noises and the water squirting into their mouth when they bite through the line.

[@imaspacewoman]

Hi Im putting drip line stuff in my cart on the Drip pride site in your links. However I don't see any 5/8 inch Polyethelene Tubing it starts at 1/8 inch to 1 inch? Please help me with this if you would be so kind. Enjoy your videos. This made it look easy enough that I want to reward my garden this coming year with better wa tering.

[@LazyDogFarm]

5/8" or 1/2" -- same thing. Some companies refer to the inside diameter while others refer to the outside diameter.

[@Funylute1]

Hey Travis, really love your videos. wanted to ask a question i dont hear much talked about, I have to run a hose from my house to my garden and its drip system, the water can get very hot from the sun. this cant be good for the garden, should i bury that hose, water only at night? I live in a very hot climate thanks and Merry Christmas.

[@LazyDogFarm]

If I'm using the hose for overhead irrigation, I always run the real hot water out before putting it on my plants.

[@jamesfields4149]

Where is the link to the drip tape ??

[@LazyDogFarm]

bit.ly/3EzAg8z

[@jamesfields4149]

@@LazyDogFarm Thank you

[@michelel1852]

Do you have hard water? We do here so worried tape would clog up a lot. What is your experience?

[@LazyDogFarm]

We do. I have to clean the filter on my drip system regularly. But as long as you have a filter, you shouldn't have to worry about the drip tape getting clogged.

[@ritalr15]

Travis, may I ask if you use PVC, Hose, or the polytubing to get water to the gardens from the spigot?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Just a garden hose

[@ritalr15]

@@LazyDogFarm thank you

[@robclower9606]

Give the leftover peppers to the chickens. Capsicum doesn't affect birds.

[@africancatfish]

What manufacturer do you tend to use for your 15 mil drip tape

[@LazyDogFarm]

I use the Irritec brand from Drip Depot.

[@gailpetchenik3048]

R u getting the drip tape from drip depot?

[@LazyDogFarm]

yes

[@gregbluefinstudios4658]

BTW, can we assume that with FIBER Optics, we can get new videos every couple of hours?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Haha! Not quite, but it will definitely speed up our process.

[@79PoisonBreaker]

never too much garlic or onion IMO hahaha

[@pilsplease7561]

I planted 850 and still have 2 pounds garlic in fridge i didnt get to plant that im hoping rides till i can plant it in the spring.

[@GypsyBrokenwings]

I've never refrigerated my garlic.

[@pilsplease7561]

you have to in hot climates