Hi All - I’m thinking about getting a drip irrigation system for my garden and was curious if anyone here has tried one. Anything that has worked well, or not so much? Brand recommendations? Rain Bird and Hunter have come up in my searches so far. Other considerations a beginner wouldn’t think about? I’m in the US, so I also need it to be able to be shipped here.

  • Robotunicorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    This or soaker hoses. For drip irrigation, if you’re hooking up to a spigot, just keep in mind the pressure isn’t great so the longer your tubing, the less the end will get. I finally hooked mine up to our sprinkler system and it’s better, especially with raised beds.

    As someone else mentioned, if you have raised beds and using a spigot, might not be the best option. But play around with it. Hands off watering will change your gardening life!! :)

    • dominotheory@midwest.socialOPEnglish
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      6 days ago

      It is coming from a spigot off the side of the house, then would have to run probably 50ft to the garden. Our water pressure seems ok enough to run a splash pad by the garden, but I’m sure that’s different from the number of holes that would be in the beds. I’m looking to run hosing for at least 4 12x2ft beds, and I’m considering reconfiguring them to add about 2 more. Do you think that’s overambitious? Maybe I should start smaller and just try the first bed and see how that goes. I really really want that hands off life!!

      • luxyr42@lemmy.dormedas.comEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        I have a system not dissimilar. Spigot goes into a 1inch tube that has taps off it into the drip tubing for each bed row. The pressure issues I have are that it is too high sometimes and pushes off the end caps every once in a while.