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I gave the wife the ten foot box for her strawberries this year. She had one in a pot on the deck for two years
and I thought I'd give up some room for one of her favorite plants.
Going to need a recipe for that.
Thanks. Little rough this year with the weather but it's chugging along.
The tank is slightly higher than the garden. I was hoping it would have enough gravity pressure to work but once
I put on the 100' hose it turned into a trickle.
I only use it to hand water the garden. I think it should do the job but if it doesn't will adding a second battery work?
The panel is a 10ah if that helps.
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Wal-Mart had strawberries on sale for 75 cents a pound.
Bought 8lbs and learned to make preserves. Added a dash of cinnamon and salt ... unbelievable.
Good to see your garden is once again genning a steady supply.
To continue a conversation about your water catchment and pumping system...
With your battery AH and the pump draw ... you have only 30 minutes and 90 gallons of pump power.
With your PVC system, why not raise the tanks and go with static (gravity fed) pressure?
TRG
I gave the wife the ten foot box for her strawberries this year. She had one in a pot on the deck for two years
and I thought I'd give up some room for one of her favorite plants.
Going to need a recipe for that.
Thanks. Little rough this year with the weather but it's chugging along.
The tank is slightly higher than the garden. I was hoping it would have enough gravity pressure to work but once
I put on the 100' hose it turned into a trickle.
I only use it to hand water the garden. I think it should do the job but if it doesn't will adding a second battery work?
The panel is a 10ah if that helps.
I liked this recipe because it is scalable based upon the weight of your strawberries. Simple ratio so you can adjust as needed.
Had 8lbs of strawberries. I added a sprinkle of salt, cinnamon, few drops of vanilla and a 1/2 tsp of Allspice.
Made a very good preserve.
Ingredients:
Strawberries, cleaned & hulled
Cane sugar
Lemon juice
Directions:
Weigh your strawberries, take half the weight of the strawberries and use as your sugar measurement. Use as many ounces of lemon juice as you used pounds of sugar. For example, for 10 lbs strawberries, use 5 lbs sugar, and 5 oz. lemon juice.
Add all the ingredients to a pot and allow to boil until product has risen and fallen. Use a metal spoon to test for doneness; if preserve mixture drips off in a sheet, then it’s ready to jar.
On your irrigation system ... When I worked for the VFD i became a certified Driver/Operator. Had to take a class on flow and pressure for fire hoses.
The diameter of the hose makes a tremendous difference on flow rates. Your water hose is almost as bad as it gets for back pressure. Water has to be pushed very hard to flow through it.
If you want volume from a garden hose it takes a lot of pressure to overcome the friction of the hose against the water molecules. My Beaver using a PTO pump at 1000 RPM and 17 HP ... it was about 8 gpm at 150' through a water hose.
I stopped using Beaver and bought a 5 hp Honda pump. Via a 2.5" line I push water 200' at a rate of 75 gallons per minute.
Almost 10 times the volume with 1/3 of the HP.
The difference is the hose diameter. The water is not being 'squeezed' through the hose.
If you want to use gravity, consider hitting Amazon and getting a 2.5" poly line. TSC sells them, but they are over 1.00 per foot.
TRG