KOgrowsfood
New Member
Hi all, I need help planning out an off grid irrigation system. I work at a school and we just got a property donated to us and it is 100% off-grid. We are going to start a large school garden that is about 100’ x 100’ plot.
We have mapped out 30 40’ garden beds. We would like to use drip irrigation. We have a 1,600 gallon water tank. There will be two 3/4” main lines coming out of the water tank that will run perpendicular to the garden beds and then two 1/4” spaghetti drip lines coming off the main line going down each bed with 1 gal/hr emitters every 12”.
How do I figure out how big of a pump I need and what kind of solar setup I need to run it? I’d like to water for at least 15 mins everyday for seedlings.
Thank you so much for your help!
Kyle
We have mapped out 30 40’ garden beds. We would like to use drip irrigation. We have a 1,600 gallon water tank. There will be two 3/4” main lines coming out of the water tank that will run perpendicular to the garden beds and then two 1/4” spaghetti drip lines coming off the main line going down each bed with 1 gal/hr emitters every 12”.
How do I figure out how big of a pump I need and what kind of solar setup I need to run it? I’d like to water for at least 15 mins everyday for seedlings.
Thank you so much for your help!
Kyle