Drip irrigation systems make sense on a number of levels. Because you’re watering exactly where you need to, you’re watering as much as 70% less.

Setting up a drip irrigation system is not that much different than assembling tinker toys: you connect water lines in geometric patterns using connectors in the shape of L’s and T’s.

A drip irrigation system is a series of tubes that snake around your garden, delivering water straight to the roots of your plants. They are generally considered efficient and are often automated.

Types of Drip Irrigation Systems There are four types of drip irrigation systems. Choose the one that works best for your needs and in your garden, depending on layout, plants, terrain, and other ...

Commonly used SDI lines are 0.5 inches in diameter, but manifolds should be larger and can be anywhere from 0.75 to 2 inches, depending on the length of each drip line and the lawn’s size.

Enter Gene Goldstein. He has extensive experience in drip irrigation and has settled on 1/4″ spaghetti tubing that you connect to the main line wherever an emitter is needed.

It is truly luxurious to have a garden where sprinklers and drip irrigation are already present, but that’s not the case for most people with gardens. That means people spend a lot of time and ...

Water trickles out of a tiny black plastic tube and flows onto a spot near a young banana plant. The set-up looks simple, but it works with precision. The tube delivers just the right amount of water, ...

JAMIESON, Ore. — Corey Maag’s mid-1990s shift to drip irrigation made him an early adopter of the method now common in the sizable southeast Oregon/southwest Idaho onion growing region. “We ...