Re: Irrigation
Nan Sterman wrote:
>
> Carol: May I recommend an excellent book? Drip Irrigation by Robert
> Kourik is an excellent book that walks you through the process of
> installing a drip irrigation systme. It's easy to understand and he
> explains what equipment he recommends and why. It was invaluable to us
> when we installed our system a few years back. It was our second go at
> drip irrigation, the first time was about 12 years ago when pre-drilled
> drip tubing was in its infancy. Its VASTLY improved nowadays and I
> recommend it highly, over puting in individual drippers at each plant --
> there are many reasons why that is not a good way to go, not the least of
> which is the fact that as each plant grows, you constantly need to increase
> the number of drippers or volume of drip going to each plant -- making it
> very high maintenance.
>
> Nan in So. Cal
Hi Nan,
I increase the number of hours depending on need. I do not add
additional emitters. One problem is however that the emitters at times
pop out, and so once or twivce a year the pipe has to be checked. I have
used in some gardens miles of drip, and it isn't that big a deal. And in
placing the emitters at the plants that I want to get water, I reduce
the problem of weed growth and invasiveness.
But the evenly spaced preset pipe is preferrable in some situations, not
least of which is a screen, or vegetable patch. Drip was aftrerall
designed originally for that purpose.
Mark Mos
NY
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