I tell you what this South Georgia weather is crazy here. We are the second week in January
It was 34 degrees this morning had a little light frost on the plants and then look at there almost
70 degrees almost a 40 degree swing from morning to afternoon
That's just crazy. These poor plants don't know what to do
They don't know what time of year it is going from 34 degrees to 70 degrees
but I digress today we're going to be
fertilizing our
Onions and I'm going to show you how to do it and show you which tools we used to do it
That makes it really easy. If this is your first time on our channel
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It's always good to have you back. So here's our big Allium plot, and we've got leeks,
shallots,
Elephant garlic, and about ten or eleven rows of onions the other day
I was out here and I came to the realization that I went a little overboard with the onions
I just got the fever and I just kept planting onions and leeks and didn't know when to stop and
Now we've got a lot we've got all these planted on double rows. We've got our drip tape
Buried there beneath those double rows and everything's growing pretty good in here. I just got in here the other day and
Cultivated got everything weeded and cleaned up. It was time to shoot some juice to them. So lately
I've had a lot of viewers on our YouTube channel and people on our customer service line asking
For me to do a video on how to set up our EZ-Flo fertilizer injector
That's the tool we use the most to fertilize because it just makes it really easy
To inject your water-soluble fertilizer into that drip system and it makes the plants pop really quick.
So today I want to show you all the pieces of that how we take it out of the box set it up
Install it and then we're going to fertilize these onions before we set up that easy flow. Let's talk about my water setup here
so this is my well and
the spike it off my well here. I've got this four-way
Ran here, and I've got one hose here
That runs to my little vegetable washing station and there's Chloe back there
and then the other
Outlets here I use to water or feed my garden
So I've got this hose that goes to a garden going that way
These I use to feed gardens going that way and then one of these I'll leave that
Fertilizer injector hooked on it. Then I can just move my hose to the
Injector line when I want to fertilize and when I don't I'll put it back over here
So we can just have straight water.
Now if your water pressure is 50 pounds or less you want to install the easy flow right here at the spigot
And then the hose is going to run down to the garden or that drip irrigation system starts. We can see here my pressure is
Right at 50 maybe just a hair over
So I'm okay. That's why I set mine up here at the well if your pressure is over 50 psi
You're going to need something that you're well to knock that pressure down before you install the easy flow or you can put it
downstream of your drip pressure regulator there
I highly recommend putting it at the spigot at your well
That way you don't have to move the EZ-Flo around to different plots
If you have different plots
You just leave it in one spot and then you're just moving the water hose that is getting fed by that EZ-Flo.
Alright, so we got our two gallon EZ-Flo box here. We'll open it up and see what's inside
We do have two different versions of this fertilizer injector
We have a 2 gallon tank and a 3 quarter gallon tank
Most people choose to go with the 2 gallon tank just because it holds more fertilizer
You got a really small garden just a few raised beds
You probably want to go with that smaller 3 quarter gallon tank if y'all hear any background noise, I apologize
My wife's uncle is building an island
For his pond. Yeah an island for his pond
That's how you know when you didn't ran out of things to spend money on
But anyways, there's a bulldozer running not too far from here. So if you hear that, I apologize, let's dig in.
So we got our instruction manual here. We'll look at that in just a second
some
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This is our parts kit here this contains our hose bib and our tubes that are going to run to our tank
and
then
We've got our tank lid here so this is the cap for the tank and it's got two little hoses
That run from it one is the agitator so water is going to be shooting into the tank from your water supply
Keeping that tank agitated keeping everything mixed up real well
And then this is the siphon part which is going to be sucking up that
water-soluble fertilizer and injecting it into your water supply so you can feed your plants and then here
We've got our tank. So this is what's going to hold that water soluble fertilizer
and like I said
The way it works is water gets injected into this tank and then water plus fertilizer gets
Injected out of it on your tank cap here
you got four different settings slow one two, and
fast and a little dial where you can change that that's going to control the rate of
Injection or the rate of fertilizer that you're putting out I always just put it on the fast setting
But if you're going to water something for a very very long time
You might want to go on the slower setting but like I said
I always just put it on the fast and that works for me and on the cap here. You've got two different color washers
So you've got a blue washer, which is your inline and then this little green washer, which is your outline
So the blue line is going to be the water from your water supply going into the tank
The green washer line is going to be the water plus fertilizer
going into that water hose down to the garden to feed those plants and our parts kit here we've got
Our clear line which is going to run on
this green washer here that's going to allow us to be able to see if the fertilizer is actually leaving the tank and getting
Injected in the water hose. We've got our black line, which is going to run into
this in
Washer here. This is just pumping water into the tank
We've got this piece here, which is called the hose bib connector
So one end of this is going to hook up to your spigot or your four-way in my case
The other end of this is going to hook up to your water hose that's running to your garden and the two little lines here
Are going to hold
That black line and that green line that's running to the tank and then in this little bag here, we've got these little black
Inline valves and those are going to be important for setting up the kind of vacuum pressure
We need in this tank to pull that fertilizer or siphon that fertilizer and water out of the tank
So we'll put those in the middle of these lines here in just a second and then lastly in the parts kit
you've got these tiny little rubber discs that are called flow discs and
What these are used for are in situations where you're not running that much drip tape at one point in time,
Maybe you're just fertilizing a couple lines instead of the whole garden
You're going to want to use these flow discs. Now, like I said, whether you use the flow discs or not
is gonna depend on how much drip tape you're fertilizing at a time in our handy dandy manual here
it tells you if you're
Fertilizing or running less than a 120 gallons per hour of tape
then you need to use one of the flow disc and it tells you which color flow discs to use based on what kind of
Water output you're doing our drip tape puts out 0.4
gallons of water
per minute per 100 feet which comes to about
24 gallons per hour
Per 100 feet and I've did the math for you
if you're running less than
500 feet of our tape if you're fertilizing less than 500 feet of our tape at a time
You're going to need to use one of these flow discs now
I've got about 800 feet and that onion plot that I'm going to be fertilizing so I don't need to use the flow disc
but if you're just doing
You know 500 feet or less you're going to need to use one of these flow discs, and those flow discs just install
on this hose bib connector here and you'll just put whatever color flow disc you need based on how many drip tape or
How much drip tape you have running. Okay, so let's put this bad boy together
we're going to start off with our black line here, which is our inline and
Get it out of this. Zip tie here.
Unwrap it
We're going to take the black line and we're gonna stick it on the end with this blue washer here our inline and
You just stick it in there and it will fasten tight and you can't pull it out
So once you stick it in there good it's in there
And then we want to take this black line and install our inline valve on it
So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to cut it kinda in the middle here
And then take one of my inline valves
And I'll put one end of the valve into this piece of the black line
I'll put the other end of the valve on this piece
of the black line
And then I'm connect
This end to my hose bib connector and it tells you the flow here blue or green
So black line goes in blue here
The black line is going to go on the blue right here on this hose bib connector. So we just insert that right there
Just like that. Now we need to install our clear line or our outline, which is going to go on the green connectors
so we push one end of it into here and
Then once again, we're going to cut it in half so we can install that inline valve.
Get our valve out of the bag here
Put one end here
And the other end here
And then this end of the hose is going to go on to the
Green portion of this hose bib connector here. So now we've got it set up
We've got our tank we've got our lid we've got the black line, which is going to shoot water into this tank
We've got our clear line which is going to shoot water plus fertilizer
Into our water hose that's running to the garden where we're going to feed those plants and then to set it up
We've got our tank right there. We've got our lid here we've got our two lines
And our hose bib connector here. So I'm just going to put it on this piece this outlet of the four-way right here
Even if you don't use a four-way if that's a little overboard for you
I do recommend at least using a Y off your spigot that way you have a
just straight water inline and then a
Fertilizing line and you can just move your water hose
Back and forth. It makes it a lot easier that way you can just leave this piece right here connected
So we just need to thread that on
Right there and then take our water hose here and we'll put our water hose on this piece of it
So when our tanks running or shooting water right here from this black line
Into the tank and the tank is shooting water plus fertilizer through this clear line
Back into our water hose which runs down to our garden. Alright, Alright,
Alright, so we showed you how we set up that tank is pretty simple and easy
You don't have to do that one time and you're good to go. Now all we need to do
is put some fertilizer in that tank and feed these onions, but I'm out of time for today
So you're gonna have to wait to the next video for that and we'll show what we're going to put in the tank
how much of it, how we mix it up, and
How we fertilize those onions.
I'll put some links below to our EZ-Flo fertilizer injector
And our drip irrigation kit so you can check those out if you enjoyed this video
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