If you grow lettuce, spinach, kale, or salad mixes and you’re still running sprinklers overhead, you’re probably burning money on water and fungicide you don’t need to spend. Leafy greens are the crop category where drip irrigation makes the most…
Walk through a vegetable farm in northern Nigeria during January and you’ll see something that wouldn’t have been possible twenty years ago: tomatoes, peppers, and onions growing in the middle of the dry season. The difference isn’t luck. It’s drip…
Tomatoes are picky about water. Give them too much at the wrong time and you get cracked fruit, bland flavor, and fungal problems that spread through the field in a week. Give them too little during fruit set and the…
Why Fruit Trees Don’t Follow the Vegetable Playbook If you’ve set up drip irrigation for tomatoes or peppers, you might think moving that same approach to an orchard is straightforward. It’s not. Fruit trees have root systems that spread 2…
Most farmers I talk to worry about how to irrigate: drip tape vs. sprinklers, pump sizing, filtration. Almost nobody asks the question that matters more: when should you actually turn the water on? That’s a mistake. A perfectly designed drip…
