5.82 STRAWBERRIES – GROWING YOUR CROP WITH T-TAPE

 

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LESSON 5.82 STRAWBERRIES – GROWING YOUR CROP WITH T-TAPE

Growing your Crop with T-Tape

4 reasons why T-Tape is your go to drip irrigation product for strawberries:

SUBSORFACE DRIP IRRIGATION T-Tape is a premium drip tape that strawberry growers prefer above all else due to its uniform flow, unique internal design and turbulent flow channel emitter manufactured into the tape itself that delivers clogging resistance, even under poor water quality conditions. T-Tape is one of the most popular drip products worldwide and is extremely common in California, Mexico, Spain, Italy, and Australia strawberry production.

Strawberries are typically planted at 25 – 30 cm intervals. Each plant will typically yield between 0.75 – 1.3 kg of fruit. This makes close dripper spacing especially important. 

 

In addition to helping with crop uniformity, closer dripper spacing makes it easier to leach accumulated salts both below and to the edge of the bed. Strawberry has a long crop cycle and using close dripper spacing helps prevent accumulated salt build up between drippers by making it easier to push the salts away from the crop. Wider dripper spacing can result in residual salts being left in the root zone between the emitters. 

We recommend dripper spacings of 15 – 20 cm (maximum) to provide very uniform fertilizer and water distribution, even with short irrigation times commonly used by strawberry growers.

SUBSORFACE DRIP IRRIGATION T-Tape has an integrated emitter design that allows for easy close dripper spacing, even as low as 10 cm.

By applying dye through a drip irrigation system and then cutting away the soil, we can observe how water moves through different soils. In more sandy soils, lateral water movement sideways is much lower compared to the movement of water down the soil profile. In these environments, close dripper spacing is critical to ensure all strawberry plants receive adequate water and fertilizer.

 Slit Outlet to prevent Soil Ingestion Soil Ingestion

·         While the tape is installed under plastic mulch, it should also be shallow buried a few centimetres to prevent it from ‘snaking’ under the plastic mulch. A challenge when burying drip lines is soil ingestion at shut off. T-Tape was specifically engineered with a slit outlet that closes at shut off to help prevent soil ingestion.

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Seam Design for Easy

At the end of the season the plastic mulch and tape is often removed at the same time.

 T-Tape has a seam along the length of the tape that provides an extra layer of strength to help prevent snapping during retrieval.

Typical T-Tape System SUBSURFACE DRIP IRRIGATION

·         Standard bed:

• – 2 lines of plants per bed.

·         1.2  – 1.4 m between beds

·         0.25 – 0.30 m between plants

·         Density 40,000 – 60,000 plants / hectare

·         Generally, use 1 row of T-Tape per bed

·         Wide bed:

·         3 – 4 lines of plants per bed

·         1.5  – 1.8 m between beds

·         0.25 – 0.30 m between plants

·         Density 40,000 – 60,000 plants / hectare

·          Generally use 2 – 3 rows of T-Tape per bed

·         T-Tape:

·         16 – 22 mm depending on run length

·         6 – 12 mil wall thickness depending on insect risk

·         0.5, 0.75 or 1.0 lph dripper and 15 – 20 cm dripper spacing. Dependent on soil, water and hydraulic requirements

·         Helpful Hints

·         The benefit of having wider beds with extra lines of plants should be considered along with the additional difficulty and cost for harvest as wider beds make it more difficult to reach over to pick strawberries and perform other activities

·         Do not run your tape or submains up-hill. If you have sloping ground, it is better to run downhill where the friction in the pipe can help balance the increased pressure due to gravity

 

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SOMO LA 5.82 STRAWBERRIES – KUKUZA ZAO LAKO KWA T-TAPE

Kukuza Zao lako kwa T-Tape
Sababu 4 kwa nini T-Tape ni kwenda kwako kwa bidhaa ya umwagiliaji wa matone kwa jordgubbar:

SUBSORFACE DRIP IRRIGATION T-Tape ni tepi ya kudondoshea matone ya hali ya juu ambayo wakulima wa jordgubbar wanapendelea zaidi ya yote kutokana na mtiririko wake sawa, muundo wa kipekee wa ndani na mtoaji wa mkondo wa mtiririko uliotengenezwa kwenye tepi yenyewe ambayo hutoa upinzani wa kuziba, hata chini ya hali duni ya ubora wa maji. T-Tape ni mojawapo ya bidhaa maarufu zaidi za drip duniani kote na ni ya kawaida sana katika California, Mexico, Hispania, Italia, na Australia uzalishaji wa sitroberi.
Jordgubbar kawaida hupandwa kwa umbali wa cm 25-30. Kila mmea utatoa kati ya kilo 0.75 - 1.3 ya matunda. Hii hufanya nafasi ya karibu ya matone kuwa muhimu sana.
Mbali na kusaidia kusawazisha kwa mazao, nafasi iliyokaribiana ya matone hurahisisha kumwaga chumvi iliyokusanywa chini na ukingo wa kitanda. Strawberry ina mzunguko mrefu wa mazao na kutumia umbali wa karibu wa matone husaidia kuzuia chumvi iliyokusanywa kukusanyika kati ya dripu kwa kurahisisha kusukuma chumvi mbali na mazao. Nafasi pana zaidi ya matone inaweza kusababisha mabaki ya chumvi kuachwa katika eneo la mizizi kati ya emitters.
Tunapendekeza nafasi za matone ya matone ya cm 15 - 20 (kiwango cha juu zaidi) kutoa mbolea sawa na usambazaji wa maji, hata kwa muda mfupi wa umwagiliaji unaotumiwa na wakulima wa strawberry.
T-Tepu ya Umwagiliaji kwa njia ya matone ya SUBSORFACE ina muundo uliounganishwa wa emitter ambao huruhusu nafasi rahisi ya kufunga matone, hata chini ya sentimita 10.
Kwa kupaka rangi kupitia mfumo wa umwagiliaji kwa njia ya matone na kisha kukata udongo, tunaweza kuona jinsi maji yanavyosonga kwenye udongo tofauti. Katika udongo wenye mchanga mwingi, mwendo wa maji kando kando ni wa chini sana ikilinganishwa na mwendo wa maji chini ya wasifu wa udongo. Katika mazingira haya, nafasi ya karibu ya matone ni muhimu ili kuhakikisha mimea yote ya sitroberi inapata maji na mbolea ya kutosha.
 Sehemu ya Kupasua ili kuzuia Kumeza kwa Udongo kwa Udongo
• Wakati mkanda umewekwa chini ya matandazo ya plastiki, inapaswa pia kuwa na kina kirefu kuzikwa sentimita chache ili kuzuia 'kuruka' chini ya matandazo ya plastiki. Changamoto wakati wa kuzika njia za matone ni kumeza udongo wakati wa kuzimwa. T-Tape iliundwa mahsusi kwa tundu la mpasuko ambalo hufungwa kwa kuzimwa ili kusaidia kuzuia kumeza kwa udongo.

Ubunifu wa Mshono kwa Rahisi
Mwishoni mwa msimu mulch ya plastiki na mkanda mara nyingi huondolewa kwa wakati mmoja.
 T-Tape ina mshono kando ya urefu wa tepi ambayo hutoa safu ya ziada ya nguvu ili kusaidia kuzuia kupiga wakati wa kurejesha.
UWAGILIAJI WA MFUMO WA T-Tape wa Kawaida
• Kitanda cha kawaida:
• – mistari 2 ya mimea kwa kila kitanda.
• 1.2 - 1.4 m kati ya vitanda
• 0.25 - 0.30 m kati ya mimea
• Msongamano wa mimea 40,000 – 60,000 kwa hekta
• Kwa ujumla, tumia safu 1 ya T-Tepu kwa kila kitanda
• Kitanda kipana:
• Mistari 3 - 4 ya mimea kwa kila kitanda
• 1.5 - 1.8 m kati ya vitanda
• 0.25 - 0.30 m kati ya mimea
• Msongamano wa mimea 40,000 – 60,000 kwa hekta
• Kwa ujumla tumia safu 2 - 3 za T-Tepu kwa kila kitanda
• T-Tape:
• 16 - 22 mm kulingana na urefu wa kukimbia
• Unene wa ukuta wa mil 6 – 12 kutegemea hatari ya wadudu
• dripu ya 0.5, 0.75 au 1.0 lph na nafasi ya dripu ya 15 - 20 cm. Inategemea mahitaji ya udongo, maji na majimaji
• Vidokezo vya Msaada
• Faida ya kuwa na vitanda vipana na mistari ya ziada ya mimea inapaswa kuzingatiwa pamoja na ugumu wa ziada na gharama ya kuvuna kwani vitanda vipana hufanya iwe vigumu kufikia ili kuchuma jordgubbar na kufanya shughuli nyingine.
• Usikimbie kanda yako au nyambizi zako juu ya mlima. Ikiwa una ardhi ya mteremko, ni bora kukimbia kuteremka ambapo msuguano kwenye bomba unaweza kusaidia kusawazisha shinikizo lililoongezeka kwa sababu ya mvuto.