Hello my friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside today's a very fun exciting afternoon
uh because we are going to hook up the water tank to the tractor for the first time
and get this bad boy in use so if you remember a couple of days ago i showed you my new quote toy
farm toy that we decided to get we've been looking at this for a while now and it is a hundred gallon
watering tank so it will hold both clear water and fertilizer water we are going to hook it up
to the tractor it is pto powered some people were asking why we just didn't get one that
would go like in the back of the polaris or the kubota well you still have to have a battery to
pump the water and the tractor is one of our least used vehicles so we can keep the tank in there uh
or on the tractor rather and yeah so that's that's the route we went right here yes he says
all right so he is the uh the master tractor man and uh so we're gonna just
go ahead and get this thing he's gonna get this thing hooked up and then we're gonna
play with it and see exactly how it works and we'll let you know it's very exciting
alrighty my friends so we got it hooked on uh jeer knows how this whole system works which is
good because i am learning um so yes it was all hooked on the pto was hooked on
we did a little test run to turn the pto on and uh everything stayed in place so that is really good
so now what we're going to do this is going to be kind of our uh inaugural run right so we're not
going to fill up the whole hundred gallons today we're thinking about just halfway 50 gallons get
go ahead and get some fertilizer in there because it is later in the day and the sun is out and uh
yeah i don't know how long it's going to take to go through 100 gallons of fertilizer water
and that is the thing too with this tank is that we want to empty it with the fertilizer
water every time we don't want fertilizer sitting in all of the hoses and the pumps and
all the different parts because if you leave it for too long it can start to corrode your
all your machinery so we will fill it up empty it out and then go ahead and fill
it with clean fresh water and then i can go around and water shrubs that don't you
know need the liquid fertilizer if it has a little bit in there it's okay but that's a
great way for us to flush out this system keep everything working well and keeping it happy
somebody has said something about yeah don't leave it sitting outside with water in it
obviously not because it is so incredibly hot we're getting ready to now today is not that hot
i mean it's warm but it's not like crazy hot um but later on in the week it's gonna get back up
to 100 and upper 90s so yes so we will empty this even if it has fresh water in it every single time
and we will park it in a tractor shed to keep all of this out from the damaging uv light rays
because over time it will certainly have its fair share of tickets told on the equipment
so we're just going to get a hose and hook it up get some fertilizer and get this baby going
okay my friends so we we took a little time out on the uh filming part because jerry said
let's figure out let's make sure we know how this thing works before we're we're filming it
um it took us a hot minute to realize exactly how to work but it turns out we i think we just
had to prime the pump so we had to prime the pump as soon as jerry started disconnecting and
reconnecting some water hoses then she started spraying like a beauty so all right you're the
technical guy so let's just walk through a little bit like what should the people know about this
well i mean i mean if you have a tractor and you have a pto the number one thing is if you're
going to buy one of these is to make sure that you're getting a pump that is rated for nitrogen
ah yeah pump rated for nitrogen because that's i mean that's primarily well that
is what we're using water other chemicals and those kind of things but there are
cheaper pumps out there but they will not last long okay so rated for nitrogen um 100 gallons
what we're doing for simplicity's sake today is yes we are running water the fertilizer water
from the fertigation system because yeah that just gives us a correct uh parts per million
that we want to put into the landscape which is not anything that you're going to use as a
homeowner this is in the greenhouse but we'll come up with a measurement for like so many
cups or whatever for a 50 gallon right so we just this is the fastest and the easiest way
to get fertilizer water in the tank today is just to run the hoses connected to the
fertigation system in the greenhouse so when we fertilize the annuals in the greenhouse
this is the ratio the exact ratio we use so these plants are very much used to this ratio
because we do have to figure out once we have that dry water soluble fertilizer just like
whether it's proven winters or jacks or whoever we've got to know how many scoops how many cups
to make for a 50 gallon tank or a hundred gallons like the proven winter thing what is that scoop
per what it's a scoop per gallon yeah so it would be 50 scoops right so it'd be 50 scoops
how many 50 gallons for 50 gallons but then we got to do the measurements of how many
scoops i guess that's a tablespoon so i could say how many tablespoons are in a cup yeah anyway
we got to do some math so there you go there you go okay so it has the real reel the reel does
have a lock on it so that's great so and it's um we have two wands yes we have those really
high pressure spray one and then this is the lesco long you know so it'll have like a little
more of a shower you know type of spray but when the tractor was and the tractor's not on
so that's just residual pressure um but when the tractor is on i mean it it sprays but we
can turn the pressure down right and it would be less of a force yeah so if i find that it's too
pressured i could just turn down my right yeah so i like that i like that to be able to hook up here
all right so what we're going to do is just finish getting this we're only going to put
50 gallons in it today and then i think we're going to go down and fertilize the two entrance
beds along the creek they have the sun patients in it and the coleus and grasses and things
that's what we're going to tackle first so we'll take you along for the ride on that
all right so we got everything going super easy y'all so we just have it we did have to turn down
the pressure so i can just come in here and i can walk and i can hit at the base of the plant
and just get everybody nice and happy and watered in with all of the yummy fertilizer so as you can
see this bed is really doing very nicely the only fertilizer that this bed has had is the initial
slow release fertilizer that we gave it and then remember it is on really good irrigation
and everybody is very happy in here it took a little bit of a hit when we very first
planted it because you know the plants were new getting them established it was it was a little
bit we had to do a little bit of hand watering with them um but the irrigation system is working
great you can tell from like the purple fountain grasses man they are happy and doing really well
um and then of course we have coming down through here i want to show you is the quick fire fabs
i am not going to fertilize those with fertilizer water because those are hydrangeas and they do not
want this liquid fertilizer but look right here look how happy the grasses are so the grass
can take the liquid fertilizer right so it can take that good food but i'm not going to
use this on my shrubs especially my hydrangeas they have enough food they're
very happy and then we move on down this way all right uh oh jeer wanted to take
take the wand for a round or two so he is watering right now for me um but i wanted to give you an
update on how these plants are doing and just kind of recap of what the plants are that we have in
this flower bed because they are doing fantastic so as we turn around right here in this bed we did
two kinds of coleus we'll start with that so this is lime thyme lime thyme of course gorgeous green
on it at the bottom we have the silver bullet this is an artemisia it's doing really well
of course the good old prince tut love this grass it is the annual of the year fun nice green on it
and then we have our beloved purple fountain grass and this is how i know that they are doing
just fine on the irrigation because they are nice and lush and look at those beautiful plumes on it
doing really well here comes my personal gardener going in there giving them a little bit of food
it's awesome and then we had the alyssum jerry this was snow princess
it's either snow prince this was snow princess because snow princess
is the most vigorous so it is in here of course the newly noir coleus this is new for this year
nice beautiful dark dark green and not green look at me oh you just blew her off
i was going to show a ladybug she got moved a little bit
dark just almost like a black foliage on it so we have that going down through there
and then kind of the star of the show as far as flower power are the sun patients
this is sun patients compact purple and they are doing well you can see that we have some flowers
we do have some maybe that are a little bit smaller than others this is where the food
is really going to help them the food is going to just give them a great shot it's that great
shot in the arm and get them going nice and happy we did have almost right after we did
plant these two beds we had a crazy rain that was just what we call a gully washer right i mean
it came through here and it moved a lot of the covering that we had the compost and the mulch
we just haven't had time to get back in here and cover it up because where you can see irrigation
lines now before you couldn't see them so when time allows we need to get back in here and fix
that but man oh man overall i am really happy with how this bed is looking because you see great pops
of color you can see that the silver bullet is that beautiful kind of that silver color when
it's dry and then when it's wet it kind of turns green but man everybody is doing great in here as
is the companion bed that is just right here we will get that fertilized here in just a minute
alrighty my friends the fertilizing for today was a quite a success we really did go through 50
gallons on those two beds so it'll be interesting to see how much fertilizer we go through and
obviously there's a big learning curve right as you try to figure out how much to spray and all
those good things but it was a great success don't you think yeah worked great once we got it figured
out yep which is always the case with everything it is the first one you know is the first time is
always the hardest and that's why i'm blessed to have this man because he can figure it out he's
persistent he figured it out my brain doesn't work that way praise the lord his does and so we make a
good team so what we're going to do now is just go fill it up i'm probably going to fill it up
with at least 50 gallons of fresh water because the entrance beds at the gate are really dry and
they just need some good water so what i'll do is i'll probably start with like the caladiums
and the surefires and then i'll go on to my shrubs but it's super dry up there so i can easily dump
50 gallons of water on that and they will be very happy of course we'll keep you updated on
as how we use this and but so far man yeah it's a game changer game changer all right y'all have a
great day as always thanks so much for joining the creekside we'll see in the next video bye friends
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