Watering in a greenhouse can be tricky and last year we watered with a hose. In a recent video, you saw us add an IBC tote to capture water from our sump pump for the greenhouse.
These are all great ways to water, but spending 30 minutes or more per day watering is not very practical.
We've used drip lines in the past in our outdoor garden in Texas. Using drip means we put the lines on the ground and have small emitters right next to plants we want to water.
In a place that is often very dry and warm in the summer like Texas, this was perfect.
For the greenhouse, we were originally planning to do the same setup.
But we realized that the greenhouse has an additional challenge: it gets very hot and dry and there's a lot of evaporation...
One solution is to mist water which acts as a cooling effect for the plants (and us!).
For our first attempt at setting up a misting system that also waters our plants, we went with the same drip line hoses.
We hung these from the rafters, one row per row of raised beds.
Then we started adding distribution lines with greenhouse misting emitters.
These mist emitters are nice because you can change the pressure to more focused or more spread out patterns.
We're still experimenting with how often we'll need to water and for how long, and then we'll likely add a timer so that we don't need to run it manually.
If you have any experience or ideas for making this type of greenhouse misting system better, leave a comment
This is an ever-evolving experiment in greenhouse misting for us :)
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