We visited Barriga brothers in their field of purple garlic a few days ago. They were carrying out the last irrigation for this campaign... garlic are watered weekly since May and from now on they won't water any more to let them dry... they will be harvested in two weeks. We think they are going to have a good crop: large size and high quality. From here, we invite all our followers to taste Las Pedroñeras garlic.
When we visited them, they were changing the position of their hose reel as you can see in our video and pictures. It is really interesting, you can see as two people can water any crop with this machinery (even one person can do it, too). It has a handicap because we think this kind of irrigation is worse than traditional one using pipes and sprinklers. This hose reel can be configured to fix it with different conditions about time, crops, caudal, working speed,... (some of them, the most modern ones, have a small computer which manages it and it is really accurate).
About technical characteristics: the working speed was of 2 min/m, the working width was of 53m and the water pressure used was 4.5bar with a water jet diameter of 26mm (they have a pump of 89 m3/h caudal).
Versión en español.
When we visited them, they were changing the position of their hose reel as you can see in our video and pictures. It is really interesting, you can see as two people can water any crop with this machinery (even one person can do it, too). It has a handicap because we think this kind of irrigation is worse than traditional one using pipes and sprinklers. This hose reel can be configured to fix it with different conditions about time, crops, caudal, working speed,... (some of them, the most modern ones, have a small computer which manages it and it is really accurate).
About technical characteristics: the working speed was of 2 min/m, the working width was of 53m and the water pressure used was 4.5bar with a water jet diameter of 26mm (they have a pump of 89 m3/h caudal).
Versión en español.
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Hello friends,
ReplyDeleteI have found this kind of watering system in La Mancha and the traditional one (pipes and sprinklers) but, would be it possible to use drip irrigation for garlic fields?
Thank you in advance,
EUCAMAR
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Hello amigos,
En la mancha es muy típico este tipo de riego y también en tradicional con tubos y aspersores, pero ¿sería posible usar riego por goteo en un cultivo como los ajos?
Gracias de antemano.
EUCAMAR
Thanks for your comment!!
DeleteWe think drip irrigation is better for trees or vineyard than garlic crop. You will need a large amount of hosepipe.
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Gracias por tu comentario.
Creo que el tipo de riego que indicas, está más enfocado para árboles o viña que para el cultivo del ajo. Necesitarías muchísima manguera
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ReplyDeleteEs posible usar riego por goteo de hecho ya algunos lo usan con excelntes resultados tanto en ajo y cebolla,ya que se optimiza el agua y la hoja no se moja nunca con la reducción de problemas de hongos, salitres,etc,
ReplyDeleteComo inconvenientes alta inversion inicial y el ajo requiere cambio constante de tierras con lo que dificulta hacer inversiones de este tipo.
un saludo, muy buen blog!!!
Muchas gracias por tu comentario.
DeleteDecirte que nosotros no conocemos ninguna explotación de ajos con este tipo de riego... Creo que no está pensado para el ajo, sino para árboles, viña,... cultivos fijos y con gran distancia entre una planta y otra.
Las hay, lo unico que el traslado de la tuberia es un poco tedioso, por citar algunos ejemplos cercanos AJOS La Veguilla, lleva usandolo años,entre la Alberca y Pedroñeras zona del Robledillo siembran cebolla con excelentes resultados,los peros que yo le veo son el movimiento de tantos miles de metros de tuberia y el problema de la hierba ya que las labores de asurque son complicadas,como pros podemos destacar el buen estado sanitario de las hojas, menor gasto de combustible, humedad controlada,tierra mas esponjosa,etc
DeleteThanks for your comment!!
ReplyDeleteBest regards.