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Saturday, June 11, 2016
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cntryboy
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East Jordan, MI
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I learned this trick to terminating drip tape from Jerry Rose on an OVGPG Patch tour a few years back. You can use a short piece of drip tape to make a sleeve and slide over the tape after you've bent it back on itself a couple times. First I Terminate the end (Steps 1-5), Then I coil the excess up (that will eventually be going past where the plant is now) and tie it. Then I terminate in front of the spool to stop the water where I want it (just past where the plant is currently growing) -- Steps 6-11. I uncoil and move the early termination point as the plant grows. This is the easiest way I've found to lay out the drip tape because I put it over the vines. If I lay it all out completely over the patch I have to move it to till or weed or hoe or move the wind fence etc. I invariably trip over it a doxen times. And mostly the vines grow over it and I have to move from under them later. I don't like it under the vines because when it pressurizes it will press up against the vine and if the vine is held tight by roots it restricts the water flow down the line.
I got a good portion done today and will finish it tomorrow and test it for leaks. Its time to start getting ramped up to feed the kins....
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