Irrigation Drip kit

[ejs1097]

HF has one on sale 7/15-7/25 for $5. Include 100' hose and fittings, etc. I never used on but the thought of not watering the flowers sounds good to me. lot no 46095

If you use something like this, how does it work? do you just turn the water on and turn it off after a while? if so how long? if it truely drips then I would guess a while, maybe an hour or so.

This is from a undistributed flyer, only handed out at the register....no WW tools, etc though.

thanks

[jziegler]

I just put in drip/low flow irrigation for a lot of areas in my garden. I looked at this kit as a way of getting started, but ended up passing on it. It is probably OK, but won't be great. The biggest problem is that it only has 1/4" hose. The kits I ended up getting (from Lee Valley) use 1/2" as the main line, with 1/4" feeding indivdual drippers only, so you can push a higher volume through the system.

As far as how it works, so far very well. I have a system setup now that includes a couple soaker hose kits and a shrubbler kit from Lee Valley, as well as several standard Lowes soaker hose cut to lenght and joined with standard garden hose (cut to length as well) and in the few weeks it's been up and running, everything seems to be going well. Of course, this is in a few different zones, switched by moving the hose from one to the next. One zone is a bit on the long side, flow is poor at the far end, something to watch for. And I generally have been watering for 1-3 hours at a time, a couple time a week, depending on weather. Of course, I don't think I'll need to water at all this week....

So, give the HF kit a try if you'd like, know it will have limits.

Jim

[bigsteel15]

So Harbor Freight is in the hydroponics business now, eh?
Good thing they aren't in Canada. Those things would be flying off the shelf.
Imagine the return on that investment...

[JR]

Finally, something I know something about! I've got loads of drip stuff in my yard, as well as loads of regular sprinklers. When you live in a desert you have to learn to irrigate if you want things to be green.

This HF kit looks to be a good deal, but incomplete because it offers only 1/4" parts. Generally speaking, drip systems are comprised of 1/2" backbone tube feeding 1/4" parts. You run the 1/2" from your water source in a squiggle patern (technical term) around the are to be irrigated, then when you get near a plant you plug in short length of 1/4" tubing and terminate it in a drip emitter or small spray emitter.

If your only water source is a hose bib you would use the adapter in this kit. Here in California 90% of the houses have automatic sprinler systems, so we would connect into that for regular automatic dripping.

JR

[GeekMom]

Don't have experience with the particular one you're referring to, but I hook my drip system (ala Wal Mart) up to a battery powered automatic hose timer. Comes on every 3 days for 30 minutes. Works great and I don't have to remember to turn on or off! I have a Y connector at the end of the garden hose. One side feeds the drip system main line with individual feeders to all my potted flowers, the other side goes to a soaker hose to water my rose bushes.

[meika123]

Recently I put my extremely fertile mind to work (Now that's really scary) and built an irrigation system. I used 1/2" CPVC and attached a hose fitting to one end, and Tee's every 5' or so. Then bought a large diameter hose to feed the system, probably 1" I.S. Then, I just attached sprinkler heads at each tee. I'm getting about a 20' long spray pattern from each sprinkler. Believe it or not, it works very well. Covers a lot of area in a short time.
Still working on a way to anchor the system to the ground, however.

Dave in NC