So on a previous video a few weeks ago we showed you how we use our EZ-Flo fertilizer injector
To feed our onions and other alliums through the drip system
And we had a lot of people commenting on that video and sending us emails
Asking could they use the injector for overhead watering as well.
So maybe you don't have drip irrigation installed or you got a plot where you're just wanting to overhead water
Maybe a cover crop or you just want to feed the soil prior to planting
Can you use that injector with the overhead system and today
I want to show you just how easy it is to do that if this is your first time on our channel welcome
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It's always good to have you back. So I've got my two gallon ez-flo injector here everything set up
I just need to hook it back up to the 4-way there and we showed you on a previous video. How you
Set up and install that thing it's really easy
You can go check that video out if you wanna see that today instead of using
Inorganic fertilizer we're going to be using some organic fertilizer our liqui fish
fertilizer, so when we use those inorganic fertilizers like
20-20-20 or
ammonium sulfate
We're mainly feeding our plants giving them a quick jolt with this organic fertilizer like this fish emulsion
What we're really doing is feeding our soil
it also feeds the plants what we're feeding our soil and just
Promoting the soil biology there and that's what we're going to do today
we're going to feed those beets and then we're going to go put some of this on our winter rye cover crop and
Feed that plot so it's nice and fertile
Before we go to turn in that cover crop and plant a spring crop there. So in this little plot here I had
some elevated beds of greens and I've since came in and
chopped those up with the tiller I
Cut them a couple of times they did really well for me
But I was gone for a week and bug pressure kinda got a little out of control on me
So I needed to get this plot ready for potatoes, which we're going to be planting here pretty soon
So I went in and tilled those in but I still got these two rows of beets here
And I've just been hand watering or overhead watering with the tripod stuff in this plot
You can see those beets got burnt back by the frost a little bit
those gold beets seem to be a little more frost sensitive than
Those red ones do over there
Anyway, I want to go ahead and feed these guys one more time they're getting close
They still need to get a little bit bigger before we harvest them
So I'm going feed them one more time and hopefully they'll finish out
Right around the time we need to plant potatoes in here. So I'm going to get this going and hook it up right here
Just to feed those beets real quick like and then we'll move it over to the dream garden where we'll feed that cover crop
so the first thing I'm going to do here is I'm going to put my fertilizer in there and this fish emulsion helps to
Shake it up a little bit and since I'm gonna be feeding a good bit with this
I'm gonna go ahead and just put this whole jug in here
And doesn't look like I shook it up good enough let's try that again
There we go
We'll pour this in there and then we'll top it off with water
And get the tank full before we try to run it
And I'll rinse out this jug here a little bit to make sure I get it get everything out of there.
Go ahead and fill this up and we'll go ahead and put our cap on there
Get the lid screwed on there nice and tight
And then I'll hook it up right here
to the 4-way and
Then move this hose right here, which we're going to be using the water
over to this injector hose a bit and when we turn our hose with our nozzle on we can start seeing
that fish emulsion there
Injecting right through that water line
Coming out our nozzle
Right here now in the past when I'm doing hand watering like this
I've used this Dramm shower nozzle and this is what use in our greenhouse and these work great but recently
I've really been liking
this
Fan nozzle here
Just puts out a nice stream and its really good for hand watering and it's got this little one touch control valve there
Where you can control the water flow
you can make it go just a little bit or a
lot there
And we've got both of these on our site now and I'll put some links below so you can check those out this guy
Right here works really good for hand watering things like these beets here
Alright, alright, alright so we got our beets fed
now we're going to take our fertilizer injector tank and move it over to the dream garden and
Feed that cover crop plot now over here in the dream garden
We have to do it a little bit differently and I'll show you what I mean
So the spigot that feeds the dream garden is right here right up against the house and as you can see there
It's pretty low to the ground and there's not enough room there to install that
injector
Hose bib connector so we have to do it a little different so this is the hose
Here, I've got 200 foot of
Hose running out here to the dream garden
basically two of these
100-foot hoses and so what we'll do is we're going to install
The EZ-Flo injector between these two hoses here now, you can install the injector
Right here at the beginning of your drip tape system or your irrigation system, whatever you're using
The problem with that when you have several different plots like we do is that would require moving the tank
Every time you want to fertilize a different plot, so what I like to do is to hook it up here between these two hoses
So I don't ever have to move my injector
I can leave it in the same place and all I have to do is move my water hose
so I'm going to take my hose bib connector on my injector and
Hook it up here between these two hoses
And then it I'll start injecting that way
On through that overhead sprinkler we're going to be using
on that cover crop plot
Here's our winter rye cover crop we're gonna be feeding some of this fish emotion. It's growing. Okay
Not as good as I would have expected, but I did plant it a little late
In the fall or early in the winter, so it's doing okay, but we need to feed this soil some this soil
It's pretty depleted because we had peppers and eggplants in here for a long long time
So need to kind of restore some of the structure and some of the nutrients in the soil the cover crop helps with that
We can put some of this fish emulsion down so the soil will be nice and healthy
when we do get ready to plant something else here.
So we got our tripod sprinkler running there, and we've got our injector pulling that fish fertilizer
Into that water hose out through that sprinkler to feed that plot
So whether you've got a big garden or a small garden, maybe just a few raised beds or containers
whether you use drip irrigation or whether you hand water or overhead water that fertilizer injector is quite handy for
Feeding your soil and feeding your plants.
I'll put some links below to our EZ-Flo fertilizer injector and our liqui-fish
Fertilizer that we use today so you can check those out if you enjoyed this video
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