Here’s a fast and easy drip irrigation watering system installed – it took less than half a day of work, and will save me loads of time and water later in the season.
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https://www.dripworks.com/?ref=rosefarm
The kit I installed is in /drip-irrigation/irrigation-kits/garden-bed and it’s the medium kit, but you’d choose the one appropriate to your garden size.
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28 Comments
First one! I would like more videos on recommendations of hybrid tea roses, floribundas, and David Austins for beginners 🙂
Thanks for the demonstration!
Wonderful video as always, thank you! It seems like dripworks really sets customers up for success.
Offtopic but.. may I ask where you found the steel raised beds here in Canada, and if you would recommend them?
Thank you.
another great video, thank you. looks like a good kit / supplier, trying to mix and match parts of big ecommerce sites was a little tricky for a noob like me, especially trying to figure out the pressure reduction components. i wish i'd seen this video sooner, but happy i'm seeing it now!
I set up drip irrigation in every flower bed except one this yr. I’ve spent the last two days getting all the lines ran and connected, and it has been a job. However, I know that my future self will certainly appreciate my current self getting it all set up once we start hitting our normal 110 degree temps here in Tx lol. Tyfs, Jason!
Some extra opinions for the drip irrigation here:
1. remember to make sure to use a powerful pump if your field/garden/pots is very large or too many. The water need to be pushed far enough to the end of the main pipe.
2. remember to check the drip hole sometimes(I combined the watering system with an automatic fertiliser feeder, months later there was some white stuff gathered around the drip holes and blocked some)
3. THE RATS ! I dont know they love to chew on this rubber tube or what, I have this trouble many times in my garden. My cat helped but the damage was done.
Hope this helps.😀
Hi Jason, thank´s for showing us how this is done. Also have to complement you for the new garden, it looks so well organized and pretty. A question: Can you please show us how you set up the raised beds; seems to have been done in a kind of creative way; please show us. Greetings from a follower in a late wintery Stockholm/Sweden, growing zone 7a, lat 18 degrees North; lon 59 degrees East.
Step by step instructions really clearly filmed and described. Brilliant, so thank you.
I did mini drips on my, this mean the line doesn't go to the mains water it goes to a bucket or bottle I just fill up when needed. I have them on all my hanging baskets, just a pop bottle with a length of tube pushed into a hole in the cap with a dripper on the other end.
I've heard good things about DripWorks, so glad to see how to install. All the components tend to intimidate me when I look at them, but you explained it clearly and simply. Thank you!
Thank you Jason, you made that look easy. Hopefully I can run some drip irrigation to my hosta bed this year. 🌷💚🙃
I have a landscape installer helping me in my yard. I've asked him to convert the spray irrigation in my flower beds to drip. He says the plants will not get enough water with drip and I should stay with spray. Since I live in Seattle, water rates are expensive in the summer so I'd like to conserve as much as possible which it sounds like drip will do. I also get a lot of powdery mildew on my lilacs, dahlias, and spirea as well as black spot on my roses. I thought converting to drip irrigation might help minimize fungal diseases. Can you boost my confidence that drip is the right way to go? Thanks so much for your clear, concise videos. Your veggie garden is very lovely even before a single plant has been added!
Thank you for the video.
Jason, how did you run the line from the grass level up to the soil of raised beds? Your beds look to be raised appropriately one foot. My raised beds are two feet high. Will water pressure raise the water up that high?
Nice not having a bunch of clamps
We installed drip irrigation a couple years ago and unfortunately ours started to clog up after a year but we loved it when it was working. Just need to somehow get it unclogged. Also, using very warm water to soften the hose up before connecting helped so much.
I was just about to put in a dripper system. Super useful vid. Thanks
Curious what dripworks said to do about overwintering the system? I worry about effects of cold winters on the lines.
Thanks for the great video Jason. Can you comment on the durability and maintenance of the drip system? Does it need to be removed in the winter and would it last for years? Thanks.
Once you get to 3/4" pipe buy a good punch tool. I set up drip tape last year and holy cow I almost gave up.
Pro tip: a fireplace lighter works really well to soften drip when installing it.
Will this work with a gravity feed 55 gal barrel system?
I’ve been thinking about this! Thankyou so much it looks like I could handle it.
I live in the southeast of the US where the sun is very hot. My concern would be water too hot to water plants if the supply line is above ground in the sun.
Irrigation is such a complicated subject because what works perfectly in one place could be completely wrong somewhere else.
Someone mentioned living in a hot zone, of course this system could only be used in the early hours of the morning, just before sunrise, when everything had cooled down.
However; the premise of designing an Irrigation system that works in your personal growing spacing is a very wise idea.
The benefits are many fold because so many different things can be managed by this one system.
Moisture control
Nutrition
Temperature modulation
Delicate seedling to hardening ready plants
Light mist to deep soaking
Pest control
I like your approach Jason, quick, easy, simple, but detailed enough to address the specific needs of your space and considerate of your personal needs as well.👌🤙
Perfect timing! I'll share this with my irrigation specialist (aka my husband). "May have to wait until it's a little bit drier…" Sigh. Maybe July then? 🙂 Do you have a timer you like?
Thank you so much for sharing this!