In this video I will walk you through the DIY installation of a drip irrigation system. It’s so much easier than you think! Many people are intimidated to install drip irrigation in their home garden but after this video, you will have the confidence to do it yourself! You’ll even say, “Drip Irrigation is Easy!!!”
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If you've installed drip… was it easier than you thought? Was it worth it?
I've had drip for many years works great and saves money, this is my solution for installing emitters and barbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8vV9mnMZZU&t=16s
One minute in and I'm already left behind. Lol, ohhhh so easy; I get it! Just dig a long trench (uuuhhhh) and put together a bunch of PVC pipes (oh no. No.) After "dig a trench", I don't even need to know more to know I'm out. Lol.
Now, when you come up with something a low income 68 yr old woman can do by herself, I'm listening. Haha! Don't get me wrong; you and your family are adorable, love your content, even though it makes me jealous mostly, and a long time subscriber. Just sayin. I wish I could do all that and bless you all who can. Enjoy it now because it flies by so darn fast.
I have to edit this because I see lots of women my age are doing this! I don't know how but I guess I'm just a wuss! Lol. Wusses stuck with hoses.
This is so cool. You make installing this system look so easy.
I think one of those straight up, round, open at the top, obelisk towers would slide easily over the anti syphon valve that stick so high out of the ground, then early annual climber could easily wrap around and hide it.
Love the arm guards and matching sun hat.
Great afternoon.work
Yes. I learned it from you tube. I took notes and went out there to my garden and did it. It was my first time ever doing something like that.
what is the tool you are using to install the drippers? I am jazzed
That's a good tip about attaching drip to the main at both ends and I wonder if or how much elevation it could level out. Have you ever had multiple terraces on the same circuit?
I may have missed it, but I didn't see anything set up for the lawn areas you said you were planning next to the driveway
I just received a big box from Drip Depot with all my goodies for the small garden I have now. I have done drip in the past on a much larger garden but that was years before drip tape or drip tubing was available so I had emitters for every plant, what seemed like hundreds of pressure compensating emitters since it was on a slope.
I love your hat you look good in pink colors. Wanting drip in your garden as well. I used that same black tubing but wasn't soft enough for bending in 4×8 bed. So I gave up on it. I did lay in sun so not sure if it was just cheaper tubing or what? Nancy from nebraska
Irrigation is my profession. Your Anti-siphon valve can be replaced with a check valve at the same level as your other valves. That will prevent back flow without having the valve 5 ft high. I hope that helps you, I made your tomato trellis so I owe you one.
Gracias amigo por el video me a servido muchísimo gracias guero
You are so right, Brian. The hardest part of any job is just getting started. Great tutorial!
Who makes that nice punch for the 3/4" drip hose?
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU BRIAN!!! I have a similar setup where I have a 3/4# PVC stub out connected to my sprinkler already (extra zone) and I didn't know what I did or did not need (like a back flow preventer). Also, you verified my thoughts for looping the the 3/4" around the raised bed ( no dead ends) to ensure flow. I've been putting this off…until now! Thank you for getting into detail about the emitter options also. Very helpful! Thanks for your code too. I can't wait until this cottage garden grows this year…I need more perennials!
Simple fix: Use a double hinge anti loop reverse valve to redivert the pressure into the unground hydrolic eliminator system. Easy
Love your outfit Brian!!!❤❤❤ Almost as cute as all your gorgeous flowers❤❤❤
Wow
Best thing I ever did, and I regretted not doing it sooner was drip in my raised beds! Took about a hour and our water bill went down by a lot! Plus everything thrived after I did it.
IT IS SO EASY JUST DO IT
WOW, sure learned a lot and am appreciating my climate more than ever. We may get major snowfalls, have longish winters, shorter growing seasons, but, unless we haven't received rain for more than a couple weeks, we have so much moisture in the soil, especially with heavy mulching, that I don't even need to get out the watering can or hose. Only water when seeds or seedlings go in the ground and potted plants. I have a couple soaker hoses on hand I've laid down during really hot dry summers (for us) but that's it – didn't even use them last year. Your video makes us realize how precious our abundant water supply is and how much we take it for granted. Thanks for the life lesson.
I have suggestions. At your anti-siphon stack, you need a full height Support stake, a 2”x2” would suffice. When electronic values close, they can do it extremely fast which can cause water hammer. I would recommend an in-line water hammer device . I would wrap those above ground pipes in foam insulation tape ( cheap) as PVC pipe is not UV protected and it will also prevent water from getting to hot/cold, freezing during frost conditions. I would also build a small 2”x6” box frame around base of those pipes, to protect them from weed eater string lines. Those are pressurized lines, you need to protect them. I ALWAYS use a brass gate valve to control the supply line rather than those plastic ball valves. If those plastic valves break or fail, you are turning off you entire house water supply until it is fixed. Yes it cost $20-$30 more, but you won’t bitch about the money spent as much as the regret for not spending it when the PVC valve breaks. The other thing I do is use one size oversized line for valves and the pressurized lines feeding them from the house supply. It is a little bit more money, but the parts are substantially stronger. You will appreciate it 15 years later when you DON’T NEED to rip out and replace. I put as much “armor” around the pressurized supply lines before the irrigation valves as I can. A full pressure line leak or break can ruin your week. A part I keep in the garage is an emergency pipe section replacement kit for the main pressurized line, an extra 18” and slip connectors and female slip to threaded couplers to fix any midnight emergency leaks when the neighbors German Shepard takes out one of your valves.
Are you or have you done this to your tomato beds yet? And what is your set up in your tomato beds for the drip irrigation? Thank you so much for this video. It was so educational and inspiring.
I have drip in all of my pots, raised beds and in ground plants. It is fantastic and easy once you figure out what you need
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Questions: Most of my garden is off the floor, containers and 1 raised bed. 1.-Can I use drip on all sizes and height containers?
2.- Can I use drip if my water comes from a Rain Barrel?
I'd love to give it a go but I'm intimidated to be honest🙈🤷
Once you have everything in place, how often do you find that you are having to replace parts? The last few years I have been using pieces and parts from Lowes and Home Depot and it seems like a lot of the stuff doesn't even last the season anymore.
Do you ever have trouble with the pre-punched emitter tubing? I used it on my tomatoes and some do not work and when you try to put even a small hole it becomes a geyser 😂
I have used the drip system for several years now, tweaking and refining each year. It's the best thing ever! And I still learned a few things from this video. Thanks, Brian!
I picked up a 12 zone Rachio at Costco and installed drip lines, drip emitters and sprinklers around my property. I didn't use PVC, I used flexible tube/pipe. I live in a ski town in the Rockies at 6700 feet, so we have to "blow" out our sprinkler lines every autumn to prevent freezing and breakage. Great tutorial to help me change the stuff I did incorrectly, thank you. I going to try container & raised bed gardening and drips will make it easy to keep watered.
Bravo on thumbnail Brian! (video to of course)😂
Started my irrigation this year, per your recommendation last season, its not all hooked up or buried but its going well, cant wait to test the system, hopefully no huge issues 🤞. Definitely going to also be on a timer, last year way just way too hot. Plus i missed a day maybe two on my almost finished tomatoes last year and it being so hot then watering, they all developed cracks right before harvest 😪, hoping to avoid that disaster this year, although so far its not as hot yet 🙂
Thanks for the good drip
Lesson
Also I kept waiting for you to talk about the arm sleeve protection and your hat I’ve seen those advertised On line Curious if they help protect the arms
I set up a new drip system last year after watching your videos. We are zone 8b in central California mountains. I have the main drip line set up in the box formation with the 6 in emitter lines connected on both ends. You are so right about the water being more evenly distributed. My beds were always evenly moist even through the crazy heat last year. We expanded our garden this year with 4 new beds, (including deer fencing and lots of gopher wire) and we are working on the drip system expansion now. Shoud be done for planting next week. We plant after Mother's day up here. Thanks for showing us how easy these systems can be to set up. We are in our 70s and this helps us avoid lots of hand watering.
I found useing a niddle nose pliers to push it in the hole.
Hey Brian, great show can you please let me know where you got your hole puncher from and what is the name THANKS
Awesome! You made it look easy. I never done this before. So testimony will follow 😃
Awesome video! I rent so I can't install this, but I find the process fascinating for some reason lol So I watched the whole video 👍🏼👍🏼