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This or soaker hoses. For drip irrigation, if you’re hooking up to a spigot, just keep in mind the pressure isn’t great so the longer your tubing, the less the end will get. I finally hooked mine up to our sprinkler system and it’s better, especially with raised beds.
As someone else mentioned, if you have raised beds and using a spigot, might not be the best option. But play around with it. Hands off watering will change your gardening life!! :)
It is coming from a spigot off the side of the house, then would have to run probably 50ft to the garden. Our water pressure seems ok enough to run a splash pad by the garden, but I'm sure that's different from the number of holes that would be in the beds. I'm looking to run hosing for at least 4 12x2ft beds, and I'm considering reconfiguring them to add about 2 more. Do you think that's overambitious? Maybe I should start smaller and just try the first bed and see how that goes. I really really want that hands off life!!
I have a system not dissimilar. Spigot goes into a 1inch tube that has taps off it into the drip tubing for each bed row. The pressure issues I have are that it is too high sometimes and pushes off the end caps every once in a while.
Oh I never even considered the pressure being too high, good to know
Can you just increase the rate of perforation as you move down the hose