Drip irrigation may help you declare
your independence from hand watering. Drip irrigation
can be hooked up by just about anyone. It can be hooked
to simple faucet timers that will allow you to automatically
water your plants. Drip irrigation tubing does not have
to be buried in the ground, so no trenches. Drip irrigation
also help save water.
You typically start the drip system from garden faucet
or hose. There is a special  connector
with threads on one side for the faucet and a slip connector
on the other side for the drip tube. The drip tube is
the big tube, 1/2” usually. That is caped off
at the end. From the drip tube different type of emitters
or ‘spaghetti tubing', are inserted with a special
punch tool.
Water drips out of the emitters, wetting only a small
portion of the surface, helping to reduce summer wDrip
irrigation may help you declare your independence from
hand watering. Drip irrigation can be hooked up by just
about anyone. It can be hooked to simple faucet timers
that will allow you to automatically water your plants.
Drip irrigation tubing does not have to be buried in
the ground, so no trenches. Drip irrigation also help
save water.
You typically start the drip system from garden faucet
or hose. There is a special connector with threads on
one side for the faucet and a slip connector on the
other side for the drip tube. The drip tube is the big
tube, 1/2” usually. That is caped off at the end.
From the drip tube different type of emitters or ‘spaghetti
tubing', are inserted with a special punch tool.
Water drips out of the emitters, wetting only seeds.
Under the surface, water is saturating the root zone,
where the plant needs it.
If your interested in the benefits of drip irrigation
stop by and we’ll show you our system. We call
it Monica’s ‘Bits and Pieces’. It’s
simple, with little or no packaging, and we’ll
always carry it. |
