HILLBILLY HACK: INCREASE WATER PRESSURE FOR GARDEN IRRIGATION! DEER FENCING.. Baby Ducks and More!

hey guys this Josh Dary Ridge farmer welcome to the farm Vlog today got a few things I want to show you I want to take you around the farm I want to show you my garden that's right I've been hard at work planting my garden down here going to walk you through it show you tell you about the things that I planted this year also uh got a little solution for a problem I have I've got a water hose ran way far back in here behind my house and down to the uh Garden just because I don't know exactly where I want to put my little hose bib later on my problem was my water pressure was really low and I'll show you the solution here I'll take you in the garage and show you how I'm going to build this little hose attachment thing to keep my water pressure really high in the garden so when the Rainbird thing goes to water my plants it slings water way out instead of like so here we go let me take you down show you the garden show you what's been going on on the farm and it's been really rainy looks like the sun's coming out behind me really pretty outside right now so we'll take you down the garden all right come along with me woo [Music] ston guys we got a new addition to the sty Ridge Farm family my mother gave me something very cute very sweet and very neat check it out ducky duckies hey guys what's going on guys so about 2 days ago my mom calls me and says hey I got some ducks just so happens the mobile Coupe is empty now because we've got all the chickens in the freezer so mobile Ducks into the coupe I don't know what to name them so I want you guys to name them that's a male duck and a female duck so give me some good names for my duckies here is the garden this is the garden for this year now let me point and show you what I've got right here is a flower garden this has clover and different types of wild flowers in it and then up here I'll show you those are potatoes I've got rows of tomatoes another row of tomatoes squash back here I have my cantaloupes and my watermelons planted and we're going to do corn way back over here guys if you look down in the rows here in the garden I basically did raised beds kind of in the garden I took my tractor and I drove through here and I made tracks real really heavy tracks so I would have a walking path and also a place for water to puddle I was having a big time issue with water puddling up in the uh garden and you can see right here I've got some water puddling and it's been raining for probably I'm going to say a good 2 and 1 half hours and most of the water has migrated to my little puddle areas right here versus drowning my plants so that's pretty awesome right here this is all row of squash these will be all tomatoes and that's tomatoes and we've got about 140 tomato plants also this is a half a row of squash and then on the other end I have my uh k and uh a couple different types of lettuces and we'll take you down and show you those and right here is my watermelon and uh cantaloupe patch so here's the orchard guys the Orchard's looking really good this year I've got my fence up but I don't have it energized and I'll show you the fence this is my deer fence right here and it's a specific setup uh where I have three strands in a specific manner there's a video I made about the perfect deer fence and this is the perfect deer fence it keeps the deer out of the orchard so here the honey bees and they're pretty close to the Garden I didn't want to aim The Hive directly at the Garden just cuz I didn't want bees flying in my face all the time but as you can see the bees are in pretty close proximity to the Garden right here so right here guys I got some pretty awesome lettuce coming up I planted these from uh plants that I got from the store from Lowe's and then we're going to do our own little row of lettuce by seed right here and I also have some kale right out at the end of this row this is our cabbage it's kind of getting worms in it I'm not spraying though uh here is our broccoli and our cauliflower and it's starting to get little heads on it right now too and also the chickens so guys since we last came down here our chickens have really started laying our uh baby birds have started laying and they're laying all over the C as you can see right here is one and we'll move this into the egg box right here basically we're putting eggs in the egg box boxes here to try and entice the new baby birds that are laying to uh lay into the egg boxes they're doing pretty good you guys got a little water in there too huh don't have to worry about watering the chickens today let me give you guys a little chicken lesson so when hens are really young they don't know to lay in the nesting boxes over here all they know to do is lay an egg wherever they sit so you've got to train your young hens to lay in the laying boxes and what we do is we put put little fake eggs in there or if they do lay an egg out in the C we'll move that egg over into the laying boxes and eventually they'll be trained to lay in a laying box over here and not in the floor of the coop roosters are very loud today at least twice a day you need to get your eggs up okay so we got to go into this nasty CPE with our flip-flops and get that egg let's do it I got a better idea let's get a rake and get that egg here comes my little egg come on guy come on little guy gotcha for all you purists out there I'm not going to eat that egg okay an eggshell is a semi-permeable membrane and I am not going to allow myself to eat chicken poop if I can help it so let's check out the water hose let me show you what I'm talking about for a pressure problem the water hose hole is huge but the hole to the little splitter that allows me to split to three and four different water hoses is not huge so what I'm going to do down here at the Garden is hook that hose up right there over here inside the garden and I'm going to put huge ball valves on there 3/4 in ball valves on there that way I don't lose water pressure and I get the full effect of my well pump shooting water out I'll take you in the garage we'll show you how we build this contraption guys I can't tell you how happy I am that it's finally spring look back here everything is just turning really green and beautiful I'm so happy to have you guys to take you along with me to show you what's going on on the farm hopefully you learn a little something you have a little bit of fun along the way and we build some stuff together we do some stuff subscribe to the channel guys if you're not already subscribed give me some thumbs up give me some feedback let me know let me know what you want to see give me some comments what do you want to see what do you want me to show you so now we're in the shop and we're going to make this contraption and basically what we're doing is taking where we turn our water hose on and running a pipe out and putting three Splitters on there but we're using these big ball valves right here and you can see how big this hole is it's a 3/4 in pipe and you see as I close the ball valve right here we want to get good water flow and that's what the whole goal is right here so we've got to cut a few little pieces of PVC about this big and we're going to glue this thing all up and get it together and I'll show you exactly what it is and we'll show you how we're doing it first thing we got to do is go ahead and cut our lengths of PVC and we need one piece it doesn't really matter how long it is and then we need three pieces that are similar length and we'll cut three more pieces out of this piece of uh PVC scrap that I had now we got our pieces we'll take our a little bit of sandpaper and clean up the edges and uh get them ready to glue and I'll clean this stuff out with a knife basically this is called reaming I'm going to arrange the these parts and show you how everything's going to work okay so here's all of our parts I'll explain to you the gist of it basically water goes in here and goes through these three Splitters and I have three valves to control everything and these are fittings that fit the PVC pipe and they go to a water hose size so we're going to slap all this together and show you what it looks like at the end so as I put all this together I'm going to make sure that I have everything nice and primed with PVC primer and then we're using some clear PVC glue so we'll go ahead and start putting everything together here [Music] okay okay guys this is our finished product this is our Contraption right here and basically the way it's designed is so that water can go in through the top here from our hose bib and I have three valves to control the water I'm not going to turn the valves right now because the glue is still drying but basically I got all these parts at my local uh hardware store and uh we made this contraption that's going to allow water pressure to be higher down at the Garden and we run a hose basically I'm going to say it's 500 ft all the way from our hose bib down to the Garden this is a temporary thing eventually we'll put a hose bib down at the Garden but until then this is what we're going to use to keep our water pressure up and we have huge ball valves in here that's going to allow the full 3/4 inch water hose or whatever size of water hose I use big commercial water hoses so allow the full amount of water to come down through there so anyway guys that's it for the Vlog today don't forget to give me a thumbs up give me a comment give me suggestion if you got any suggestions about this kind of stuff let me know I'm always open for any kind of suggestion if you got a video or something that you want to see me do or anything like that on the farm give me give me some uh suggestions give me some comments guys leave me some thumbs up I appreciate you don't forget to subscribe to the channel if you're not already subscribe and we're going to put this thing to work here probably sometime in the next few weeks we're getting plenty of rain right now but we'll give it a test run make sure it's going to work right I'm pretty sure it will as long as I got all my fittings nice and tight so that's it thanks for watching the Vlog guys come on back and see me all right come down to the Stony Ridge bring your wife bring your kids living life pure and sweet that's the way it's supposed to be Stony [Music]