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Drip Irrigation?
Sydney has just moved up a level of water restrictions and with a 9-week-old
baby and a 4-year-old, I'd rather not stand around in my vegie patch for hours with a hose on Sundays and Wednesdays. So -- tell me your experiences with drip irrigation and its variants. Any recommendations? -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is nothing worth being eager or vigorous about." Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893. |
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"Chookie" wrote in message
... Sydney has just moved up a level of water restrictions and with a 9-week-old baby and a 4-year-old, I'd rather not stand around in my vegie patch for hours with a hose on Sundays and Wednesdays. So -- tell me your experiences with drip irrigation and its variants. Any recommendations? -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is nothing worth being eager or vigorous about." Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893. Chookie, VERY happy with the brown dripper line made by Netafim. I think you can buy it in Bunnings, and most irrigation water supply places these days. It comes in various diameters (usually half inch is the go for drippers), but it has the drippers built into the pipe. All there is are holes a set distance apart along the pipe. When you buy the stuff, it will have 3 characterisitcs; pipe dia, distance between emitters, and rate per hour. Great thing about the stuff is that all drippers put out the rated quantity regardless of how much pressure is in the line. No more continually adjusting drippers to get them all working properly. Stuff we bought was 12mm(1/2 inch), 40cm between emitters, and 2 L\hour. Works a treat. Only suggestion would be putting a decent inline filter on the start of the lie, and maybe the option to flush the line every so often. I simply have a tap timer supplying water as I want it. This stuff is dearer than normal dripper hose, but is far simpler to install, and is more water-conscious than the same number of drippers on normal dripper line. Bloke who sold us our roll showed me a large lawn out front of the shop in Roma (QLD) where they laid this stuff under the lawn before laying the turf. He says they turn the drippers on for about an hour once a week, ans the lawn looked great. We have run a few runs of it here, and it has worked very well. Seems to be slightly heavier wall thickness than normal dripper line, which may give it slightly better life. If I was doing a vegie patch, I would seriously consider this stuff. Cheers, Rod.......Out Back |
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You're not wrong Rod, that brown dripper line is the go. I use metal pegs
(designed for weed matting) to hold the line in place and then mulch over the top. You wouldn't know it was there. Robert "Rod Out back" wrote in message ... "Chookie" wrote in message ... Sydney has just moved up a level of water restrictions and with a 9-week-old baby and a 4-year-old, I'd rather not stand around in my vegie patch for hours with a hose on Sundays and Wednesdays. So -- tell me your experiences with drip irrigation and its variants. Any recommendations? -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is nothing worth being eager or vigorous about." Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893. Chookie, VERY happy with the brown dripper line made by Netafim. I think you can buy it in Bunnings, and most irrigation water supply places these days. It comes in various diameters (usually half inch is the go for drippers), but it has the drippers built into the pipe. All there is are holes a set distance apart along the pipe. When you buy the stuff, it will have 3 characterisitcs; pipe dia, distance between emitters, and rate per hour. Great thing about the stuff is that all drippers put out the rated quantity regardless of how much pressure is in the line. No more continually adjusting drippers to get them all working properly. Stuff we bought was 12mm(1/2 inch), 40cm between emitters, and 2 L\hour. Works a treat. Only suggestion would be putting a decent inline filter on the start of the lie, and maybe the option to flush the line every so often. I simply have a tap timer supplying water as I want it. This stuff is dearer than normal dripper hose, but is far simpler to install, and is more water-conscious than the same number of drippers on normal dripper line. Bloke who sold us our roll showed me a large lawn out front of the shop in Roma (QLD) where they laid this stuff under the lawn before laying the turf. He says they turn the drippers on for about an hour once a week, ans the lawn looked great. We have run a few runs of it here, and it has worked very well. Seems to be slightly heavier wall thickness than normal dripper line, which may give it slightly better life. If I was doing a vegie patch, I would seriously consider this stuff. Cheers, Rod.......Out Back |
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