On our small farm, we used to spend hours planting beds with string lines and measuring tape to get straight rows and even spacing. It worked, but it was slow, tedious, and added extra labor we didn’t need. Then we created a faster, more efficient planting system that saved us time every season: ✅ Lay drip irrigation lines with 6” emitters ✅ Turn the water on to make visible wet spots in the soil ✅ Use those wet spots to guide transplant spacing (6”, 12”, or 18” depending on the crop) This metho