Creating A Beautiful Landscape With A Drip System

If you have a vegetable garden, potted plants or flower beds, you may spend a lot of time hand watering with a water wand or hose sprayer nozzle. Or, you may be wasting money with conventional lawn sprinklers that spray too much water on those landscaped areas.

Rather than spending a lot of time in your gardens or wasting water and money with regular water sprinklers, you can install a drip watering system. If you do have a conventional underground water irrigation system, you can easily convert one or two sprinkler zones into drip irrigation.

For a dripper irrigation system conversion, changing from regular garden sprinklers to water emitters or micro sprinklers is quite simple. If you plan on converting a sprinkler station to micro irrigation, you can easily remove the sprinkler heads from the sprinkler risers.

From the exposed sprinkler head risers, you can install a drip adapter, filter and water pressure regulator. Ideal water pressure for a water drip system is 25 PSI.

From the dripper system adapter, you will need a drip irrigation manifold. The manifold allows you to connect drip tubing that can be routed to your garden areas.

There are a few different kinds of drip hose you can use: traditional, pre-drilled holes or porous soaker tubing. For traditional sprinkler drip line, you will need a hole punch tool to make holes for drippers.

For a little extra money, you can get drip irrigation tube that has pre-drilled holes that are uniformly spaced. You can also use soaker irrigation line that has pores to emit water without the need for micro sprayers or emitters.

If you choose regular irrigation drip tubing or drip line with pre-drilled holes, you will need water drippers or drip sprinklers installed at the bases of all the plants. After you have installed the drip tubing and micro sprinklers, you need to flush all the lines to remove any tubing fragments or debris.

You can tie off the ends or use end plugs to cap off the ends of the drip irrigation tube. This will help maintain a constant water pressure and will allow your micro sprayers to work at their best.

From your automatic sprinkler timer, test the zone where you installed the drip irrigation system to make sure everything works properly. You can then program that sprinkler station to water when you need it.

Be sure to stake down your dripper line with loop stakes or tubing stakes. This ensures that the drip tube will stay in place.

If you do not have an in-ground water sprinkler system, you can easily install a dripping irrigation system from your garden hose faucet. This is done with drip irrigation parts or a drip kit.

At the hose spigot, attach an automatic water timer to automate your drip watering system. From the watering timer, you will want to install a filter, pressure regulator and drip adapter.

These parts can be purchased separately or as a single three-in-one unit. Supply tubing will connect to the drip system adapter.

Run your supply line to your gardens and potted plants. With tubing tees, you can branch out your drip irrigation tubing and route them where you need it.

From here, follow the steps to install drip tube as you would if you making a conversion from a regular sprinkler system. Flush the tubing after you have installed your water emitters or mini sprinklers.

Be sure to tie or cap off the ends and to stake down the drip tubing. Test the micro irrigation system from the hose faucet timer to make sure everything is working properly.

You can create a beautiful landscape with an Orbit drip system. Using basic and inexpensive drip system parts, your garden watering can be much easier.