Irrigation Fertilizer Assembly – Irrigate Water

Description

This has made my life much easier in feeding my garden every so often. A key element to my garden fertilizer plan and feeding my own family!! For use with standard 3/4 garden hose adapters. See our video here: Unstoppable Food Episode 10 – Fertilize Water for Garden Plants (or Animals!) Automatically w/ Irrigation

Each of our Garden Gadgets require us to order parts and build them (usually we have these parts on hand, sometimes we must get them and this results in a delay)

DOES NOT WORK WITH ALL IRRIGATION SETUPS. May not work for: Sprinklers

Be sure to check out reviews on Venturi products for tips, and other places like gardener forums. This one in particular I found helpful after trying to make Sprinklers work with venturi for awhile! They don’t!

“A little bit of a complicated review. I purchased this for use with a drip irrigation system. Every video I watched referenced how to use it for a sprinkler system and my brain did not put 2 and 2 together.

First of all- notice that it has 2 male hose ends. Save yourself a run to the hardware store and get that worked out ahead of time. The product’s threads are not NPT.

Second- a sprinkler system does not build pressure and cause back flow the way a drip irrigation system does. This will cause your water to fill up your jug of pesticide or fertilizer or whatever. In my case, it was organic insecticidal soap.

We initially set everything up with plain water and blue dye to make sure that the treated water came out of the furthest mister. Nothing. Nada. My jug filled up with water.

I realized that there was no pressure forcing the treated water into the injector to allow the water pressure to siphon the rest as its supposed to. My husband and I removed the end screen piece and attached the hose to the nozzle of a pump sprayer. Turned the hose on; it filled the jug again. Turned it off then primed (pumped the sprayer full pressure) then turned the hose on, THEN released the nozzle on the pump sprayer. No go.

Finally, I pumped for the life of me while he turned the hose on and KEPT PUMPING- sweet, sweet insecticidal soap misted my plants. The water in the siphon line still diluted my treatment some (insecticidal soap makes water a foggy yellow.) Thankfully, the siphon line is clear so we could see the difference.

Eventually, we turned the hose to very low water and pumped like a mother until the insecticidal soap was pretty much the only thing coming out of the misters and called it a day..

It DOES work for misters, you just have to get creative. Not wanting to kill my back spraying every plant just for the aphids to move over a row is a powerful motivator.

Also, in a pressurized system like a drip irrigation system, it will blow the lines off of their attachments, so you pretty much have to leave it at 4 (which is wide open) and still zip tie the hoses to the flow adjuster.”