This video clip will show you how to install a filter assembly onto poly tubing.

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If your kit includes a timer, go ahead and disconnect them from the water source and remove the batteries and store them in a heated environment. A lot of our kits also include some type of fertilizer injector such as the ez flo’s. You should disconnect them from the water source as well and drain all water and fertilizer out of them for the winter. Once they are drained, you can store them anywhere once the water is removed. On all of the kits you should let the water drain out of the main line. I would recommend that after all water is out of the main line you cap it off in some way. This will prevent trash and insects from entering the main line and causing problems next spring. If you have a source of compressed air you can blow out the system to be sure that no water is left in the line.

Owners of larger systems such as sand/media filters should drain the tanks using the drain plugs located on the bottom of the tanks. If the filters are stationary, I recommend removing the manifold and being sure that no water is left there as well. If the filters are mobile, usually the water comes out of the manifold during transport to the storage area and it is not a problem.

Many of our customers have electric, gas or diesel pumps for their systems. Be sure to drain the pump by removing the drain plug that should be located on the lower part of the pump housing somewhere. Once the water has been drained, you need to put the plug back in and we recommend using RV antifreeze to be sure that if any water is left in the pump housing it will not freeze. Along with many of these systems you also have foot valves on the suction line that need to be disconnected from the pump. If at all possible, you should drain the suction line as well.

Trey S.

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Ask yourself the question “Do I buy and drink wines that were irrigated?” Of course you do. Why wouldn’t your customers do the same thing? Managing moderate plant stress is the key to increasing yields, color, quality and PROFIT.

By providing the optimal amount of water and spoon feeding fertilizer, through the drip system, your tons per acre could double. (Check Google Again) Nothing you have control over will reduce the unit costs more than substantially increasing your yields. Negotiating for a bottle or a post that is a nickel cheaper will not drastically change your bottom line. Keep in mind the increase in yields is every year. Spending a couple of thousand dollars per acre for a drip system makes a lot of sense. I have never seen a year in the 25 years I have been in the irrigation business that there was not some time during the season, when watering would not help reduce plant stress. Sure certain times during the year you will get too much rain. Gully washers can flush your heavy spring fertilizer application into the Chesapeake Bay water shed. I see year after year with average precipitation that had serious damaging spring or summer droughts. Unfortunately for the grower, the majority of the rain came in October or November, not during the growing season. Of course, the amount of water needed will vary from vineyard to vineyard and season to season.

I would question the logic of investing tremendous amount of capital in land, posts, wire, vines, fertilizer and labor only to “hope” that it rains. I cannot tell you the number of times that I have toured vineyards only to see every third or fourth newly planted vine dead and the remainder withered and stunted. Or the grower is franticly hauling water to every vine in the vineyard. Possibly saving the vine but losing a growing year. Sure the grower lost plants and money. Plants can be replaced, maybe not the ones you wanted, but they can be replaced.

What cannot be replaced is “TIME”! How many years do we have to enjoy our dreams?

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