[cat6910]

hello everyone
I'm new here, joined because I need to pick your brains!
Ive built a new greenhouse (16m X 4m) and wondered what the best way to irrigate it is. I've decided it has to have an automatic timer and I have mains water But but but... to drip, mat mist or throw a bucket of water at it.... HELP PLEASE

[richyrich7]

Hiya cat6910 and welcome to the forums

 If you can I'd go for drip or mat, mist may raise humidity to much causing fungal/mould problems also scorching from water droplets on the leaves in the summer sun.

Fabulous size for a greenhouse btw, lots of possibilities.    

[Cynara]

Welcome cat6910, that's a greenhouse worthy of Kew. I kitted out one like that at work a few years ago and had a mixture of capillary matting on the staging, fed from a cistern with a ball valve for potted plants, and a mains dripper system for larger plants direct into the soil. Also had a mist spray activated by a humidity sensor in a separate propagating deep bench, filled with sharp sand over a heating cable, in which you could plunge pots or simply root cuttings. Lot depends on what you want to grow. In the greenhouse at home I use micro-irrigation drippers fed by gravity from a water butt filled from the gutters. Hope that's of some use.

[noshed]

Show us a pic

[WG.]

16m x 4m Wow!!!   That's bigger than the houses some folks live in!

[gobs]

Yeh, should move to Scotland. How far from H. would you suggest?  

[WG.]

Irrigation is a bad subject for me at the moment.  See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7107078.stm

Car caput after hitting very heavy surface water with stones in (think riverbed on top of road).  Just home - frozen to the bone - after waiting in car 3.5 hours for recovery vehicle.  :cry:  :cry:  :cry:

[gobs]

Get whisky out, you gotta warm through. :!:

[gobs]

Hope you are not in danger of flooding though.  :?:

[WG.]

Hope you are not in danger of flooding though.  :?:

Never say never but I don't think so.

A bit early for the whisky, methinks, even for me.  I'll reconsider after 20 minutes.

[richyrich7]

Irrigation is a bad subject for me at the moment.  See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7107078.stm

Car caput after hitting very heavy surface water with stones in (think riverbed on top of road).  Just home - frozen to the bone - after waiting in car 3.5 hours for recovery vehicle.  :cry:  :cry:  :cry:

Not like the lady in a merc who drove through a ford in a local river, she thought it was a large puddle as the sat nav didn't show it :roll:  

[shaun]

hi cat you might like this picture,these toms/cucs are on a drip system

[Cynara]

Great use of space Shaun, love it!

[shaun]

Great use of space Shaun, love it!

i will tell him next time i see him cynara

[gobs]

Irrigation is a bad subject for me at the moment.  See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7107078.stm

Car caput after hitting very heavy surface water with stones in (think riverbed on top of road).  Just home - frozen to the bone - after waiting in car 3.5 hours for recovery vehicle.  :cry:  :cry:  :cry:

Not like the lady in a merc who drove through a ford in a local river, she thought it was a large puddle as the sat nav didn't show it :roll:  

Oh my, these machines...