Drip Irrigation for the Home Gardener | Getting Started | The Southerner's Northern Garden
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2024
- Hi, everyone! I had several people asking about drip irrigation and today's video goes into extensive details of the products I use, converting an existing sprinkler system to drip, connecting drip directly to your hose bibb, discussing cost, and other tips and tricks along the way. Stay tuned to the end for a blooper! I will provide more videos on drip irrigation throughout the season as I create new beds and/or set up additional beds on drip irrigation, so don't forget to like and subscribe and hit the bell for notifications!
Below is a list of products I described in the video:
🌿Vego Metal Garden Beds: vegogarden.com... (5% off your entire purchase)
🌲Organizational Items and Tools (Recommended):
🌱Bucket Boss (organizes tools/materials in a 5-gallon bucket): amzn.to/35uJiAZ
🌱Craftsman Organizer: amzn.to/3guWDjc
🌱Small Parts Organizer: amzn.to/3gvnwDs
🌱B-hyve Smart House Faucet Timer: amzn.to/35srvug
🌱Eley Splitter Valve (Solid Forged Brass - 10 Year Warranty): bit.ly/3gzKysW
🌱¼” Hose Fitting Insertion Gun: amzn.to/2S3EK1o
🌱½” Hose Hole Punch Tool: amzn.to/3q3ahwV
Note, some of the items below will need to be purchased from 3rd party sellers on Amazon. Be sure to check that option at the Amazon links if it states it is not available directly from Amazon.
🌲Drip Pieces/Kits:
🌱Rain Bird Drip Irrigation Amazon Store: amzn.to/2S5HbAH
🌱Rain Bird Drip Repair Kit (helpful to get a variety of items in your inventory - everything can be purchased separately and is listed below): amzn.to/3wzdWFb
🌱Raindrip Starter Kit (if you only need to do a few containers or hanging baskets - includes manual timer): amzn.to/3vyxc4C
🌲For the Sprinkler Head Conversion Method:
🌱Sprinkler Conversion System: amzn.to/3gDU792
🌲For the Hose Bibb Connection Method:
🌱Rain Bird Backflow Preventer, PSI Regulator, and Filter (Combo Kit - Recommended): amzn.to/3wCjJKd
🌱Rain Bird Backflow Preventer (to purchase separately): amzn.to/3gycf5v
🌱Rain Bird PSI Regulator (to purchase separately): amzn.to/2S2vf2q
🌱Rain Bird ½” Tubing Connector for Hose Bibb: amzn.to/2S5HbAH (purchase directly from the Rain Bird Store)
🌱Rain Bird ¼” Tubing Connector for Hose Bibb: amzn.to/2S5HbAH (purchase directly from the Rain Bird Store)
🌲Tubing Options:
🌱Rain Bird ½” Distribution Tubing (No Emitter and Emitter Options): amzn.to/3q1pmz4
🌱Preferred Rain Bird Emitter Tubing for Landscape Use (18” Spacing): amzn.to/3wAbU7X
🌱Rain Bird ¼” Distribution Tubing (No Emitter and Emitter Options): amzn.to/3iNfY0p
🌱Preferred Rain Bird ¼" Emitter Tubing for Raised Beds/Containers (6” Spacing): amzn.to/3xwdjw6
🌲Tubing Connector Pieces:
🌱Rain Bird Tubing Connector Pieces (½” and ¼”): amzn.to/3vC8aRU
🌱Plugs for ¼” Emitter Tubing (also used as “goof” plugs for ½” tubing holes): amzn.to/3vx3EUP
🌲Emitters (for black distribution tubing or emitter tubing, if you need an extra emitter):
🌱Preferred for Shrubs (2 Gallon Per Hour - I typically use two per shrub depending on water needs): amzn.to/35vyz9G
🌱Preferred for Perennials (1 Gallon Per Hour): amzn.to/35stoab
🌱Preferred for Low Water Need Plants (½ Gallon Per Hour): amzn.to/3xrMrNZ
🌱Preferred for Spray (pop up): amzn.to/3vwZQTG (Note, you will need to purchase separate heads depending on if you want the spray to be 90, 180, 270, or 360 degrees around the spray head and the distance of the spray. The larger degree of spray and distance results in a larger reduction of pressure in your system. You can find those heads here: amzn.to/3vxSwXT and they are called MPR heads. They’re also available at Sprinkler Warehouse.)
🌲Landscape Staples (preferred for large jobs to reduce cost, otherwise pick up in your landscape fabric section at your local hardware store): sandbaggy.com/...
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Below you will find some of my favorite products I've mentioned on this channel. I only link products I have personally tested and feel would bring value to you or your gardening experience. Many of the following links are affiliate links, which means if you click on one of them and purchase an item, I'll receive a small commission. I truly thank you for your support. It means the world to me!
🌿Eley Garden Hose and Reel: bit.ly/35QmM6a
🌿Non-Organic Fertilizer for Houseplants and More: amzn.to/3fGA4I3
🌿Power Planter Auger: amzn.to/3hb91pk
🌿Osmocote Fertilizer for a season long feed: amzn.to/3ha1jeU
🌿DeWalt Drill: amzn.to/3tvCcpo
🌿Orbit B-hyve Wifi Irrigation Timer: amzn.to/3qapCfh
🌿Rain Bird Drip Irrigation Supplies: amzn.to/2S5HbAH
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Thank You SO much for this video and the links you've provided for reliable products! I just installed my first section of drip irrigation today and it was a success thanks to you. So happy I found your video, pretty confident it saved me from purchasing inferior products and hours of frustration.
Oh my word. This video is absolutely loaded with gold. Thank you so much for this comprehensive guide on irrigation. After moving to the south, I had been hand watering each evening and as the heat has started getting more intense, also hand watering in the morning and on my lunch break. I had no idea where to start with drip and only found the overpriced packages in the big home hardware stores. I'm container planting currently, so I just purchased a timer and a sprinkler head and grouped my plants in the same area and this has eased my time up and helped the wilting situation. However, I'll be preparing for drip when I finally get my home purchased though and I cannot thank you enough for all of this information. You're a legend.
This was the best, most complete and informative video on drip irrigation I have seen. Even the channel I watch done by a professional landscaper/nurseryman didn't explain half as we!!. Thank you very much! I'm lucky enough to live in the country with my own well that's over a hundred feet deep so only cost is the electric to run the pump. However, I'm hoping to downsize within a year and water availability and cost is going to be a high priority for my new home! 👍👍👍😀💖
Thank you so much! I found the same issue when I was looking for drip irrigation videos back when I got started so I wanted to create something for others to get started easier as it’s definitely a beneficial setup for any garden or gardener to help reduce water usage and time - especially in those hot summer days!
Yay... it came up on my UA-cam feed, how did it just read my mind? I don't have to go through your videos to find out. Gonna watch it over and over until I get it down for my drip irrigation system down, will install this year. Thank you Matthew for such a detailed education, thanks for sharing!! You are my go-to gardening person for sure.
This is the best video I have seen explaining drip irrigation! Well done! Now I just need to get the nerve to install it lol
Thanks so much! Go get ‘em! :)
I've watched this multiple times. I so appreciate you making this content. I'm committed to getting drip set up for next season, and I'll probably watch this a few more times.
Thank you for explaining this in so much detail!
Oh ,my I’m i, so excited about the emitter gun- got to have it - thanks
What a great resource! I have the behyve timer on my raised beds, but the drip 'tape' I'm using has started just pouring water at the female connection. Time for 'real drip' and to try again to research what I just couldn't find and understand last spring.
THANK YOU for making this video- now I know exactly what is needed and how to go about it. I've popped in occasionally as you've come up in suggested videos (probably from all the roots and refuge content I follow! HA!) but now you have a subscriber in your own right.
Thank you so much for your knowledge and your time. I am thinking very strongly about starting drip for my hostas and hydrangeas for next spring and you have helped me so much. I’m sure I will be referring back to this video time and time again as I start buying parts and pieces. Blessings to you and many thanks.🤗
Thank you Matthew for all the great info.
Thanks for explaining this in detail! Found your video very informative!
This was so helpful and informative! I bought Rain Bird supplies to set up drip and have been afraid to tackle it so I am still watering by hand every day. I enjoyed your slow and calm instructions and suggestions which made it easy to follow you and not get confused. Thank you for this video! I love your garden and I am so excitedly waiting to see your new fence once it goes in.
Jump in this weekend! You’ll be glad you did so you don’t have to water all summer! If you have any questions during the process, just reach out.
@@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden Well, it's 100 degrees in Kansas today and will be for the next several days so I'm not sure when I will get it done but it will get done. Thank you for your support and help!
@@fireandice847 Hope you were able to get your drip installed. It's only getting hotter here in Oz!
@@kansastraveler1476 Thank you, Kansas Traveler. OMG, this past week was a real doozy, 100 degrees temps or heat index daily and I was up early every day to water while sweating like a pig. I'm missing a few pieces in my drip kit that are needed to keep water from backing up into the spout and haven't had time to shop for them or go pick them up, ugh! I hope you are staying cool in this Kansas microwave oven!
Love your series, very informative. I am having back flow before timer. Am I doing it wrong? I have backflow - BHyve timer- Pressure Regulator - Filter - Hose Adapter to 1/2” contribution line. You are my inspiration.
That will work as well! You just want the backflow early in the system to prevent any "bad" water from re-entering your internal plumbing inadvertently. Thanks for watching!
@@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden Thank you. You are awesome.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
This was very helpful! Thanks
Thank you I needed that instruction
Fantastic advice!!
Best and most simplified video ever!!!! I wanted to ask you if it’s expensive as far as water bill. I use my hose and it’s tedious even though I have a small yard but have always wondered if the cost is comparable or more expensive. Thank you for your time and for your passion to simplify things for all of us 🌷🌷🌷
I'm glad it was helpful! I have an enormous amount of bed space so I do think it would be cheaper than hand watering for anyone because you can more easily gage how much water you are using than spraying it all over the ground. In my climate watering isn't necessary every day after shrubs/perennials are established and I'm finding myself watering certain areas less now (except for annuals) than I did when they were initially planted. With all the rain we've had (which has been unusual), I've actually watered very little this year at all.
The Southerner's Northern Garden you are lucky because here in Wisconsin this year, the rain just doesn’t come and some plants suffer so I find myself watering everyday. I guess I’m just hearing things like 2 gal per hour and my brain goes “ oh wow the water on for a whole hour!” Without understanding that it’s actually not a whole hour of water from a hose but it is controlled 🤣. Next year in the spring I’m going to start this because it’s getting to be a lot to hand water. Thank you so much for your time and for responding so quickly. Looking forward to your next tour ( which I hope will be soon). Have a blessed day 🌷
Thank you for sharing 🙏❤️
This is so helpful. I’m struggling with order of items on my line. I have a Y splitter, hose 1 side and I’m trying to setup drip order for other.
Does the back flow device go before or after timer?
I’ve watch a couple of these drip videos, but always farmers with commercial setups, or people living in South or out west. I live in lower Mich and we get real snow. can you leave the drip hose outside all winter? Or do you pick them up? I’m worried about 1/4” tubes for containers & window boxes
The timer will go on the hose bibb first. You can certainly leave the drip out year round! Because the tubes are all flexible plastic and because they’re designed to emit all the water that enters them (for the most part) you don’t have to worry about them freezing/busting.
Can you demonstrate what you are talking about in the drip system? Wonderful video. I have put 2systems in and are never satisfied. How do you plan everything out so you don’t buy everything in the store. I am very detail oriented. I guess ocd.
Hi there, thanks for the very beautiful informative video. I’m trying to plug a drip tube onto my existing sprinkler system. The zone is for flower beds and I have about 10heads in that zone. If I connect the riser kit to a head do I need to cap off all the other heads in that zone? I read it in the product description and got confused. Please let me know what I should do in this case. Thanks a lot
For the best pressure I would convert multiple riser heads to connect to the same drip system, but yes you need to cap the ones not connected to drip so they’re not spraying at the same time. For example, I had three heads in my flower bed out front. I converted every head to drip.
Hi Matthew! This was great video with awesome information! Right now I have a timer, backflow preventer and PSI regulator I'm sure there is a filter, too) that I connect to my irrigation water spicket/spigot (?). Then I have a garden hose attached, run it along the fence, use a 2-way splitter with short sections of hose that I have 2 soaker hoses attached to for my 2 raised beds. This works really well, but I want to be able to run drip to 5 whiskey barrels that are kind of spread out from the raised beds in the Spring off of this system and not really sure how to do this. I know I would need solid tubing to run between the beds and barrels. Do you think it would be better to use a 3-way splitter and then run the solid tubing around all of the barrels, then add the 1/4" tubing to each barrel in a circle connected to itself? One barrel has a rhubarb, one has a chocolate mint (confined in a pot) and the 3rd has lemon thyme that I need to dig a bunch of it out because it's spreading too much (I may confine it to a pot, too). I usually plant peppers and eggplant in these 2 barrels. The fourth barrel has a liner in it so I use it for violas and extra marigolds. Sorry this is so long, but I thought it might help if I told you what I have to work with. Thank you so much for sharing and adding the links!
You’ll probably want to use the 1/2 inch black distribution tubing to the barrels and then the 1/4 up to the barrels for the best water flow.
@@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden Thank you Matthew!
I live in Indiana. I have purchased my drip supplies and I am ready to get started but I'm still not clear about what you do in the winter to avoid the lines freezing and cracking.
Drip is designed to emit all the water in the system. There should be no or very little water in the system to cause any busting or cracking of any tubes. You should remove the timer and bring it inside.
Very helpful. I’m thinking to install next Spring. I might need one for the backyard and one for the front yard. Is that mean I need two hubs and two setup on the phone? Thank you
You only need one B-hyve hub. One hub will run multiple valves.
Am using 1/4 or 1/2 emitter tubing for the flower bed? I’m confused
What are you using for bands on your extra tubing? Looks like velcro bungee cords possibly?
Love my B-Hyve, even though I'm sure its not installed on my phone quite right! 😆
Reusable zip ties! You can purchase them at Lowe’s
Thank you so much for sharing in such detail. I don't quite understand if you switch your sprinkler head will it no longer provide irrigation to the grass or does it have the ability to both water the grass and water beds as they are installed? I want to install 3ft beds around the perimeter of my square backyard which is just grass right now with six sprinkler heads in two zones. But I don't want to stop watering the grass.
You shouldn’t mix grass sprinklers and drip on the same zone. Each have different watering needs and you’ll be unable to control them separately.
@@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden Okay. Thanks for the response.
Thank you so much for this information! I did have one question- what do you do with your drip in the winter?
I believe I answered this in another comment, but drip doesn't need to be winterized like other irrigation. It's intended to emit all the water in the system after use. Even if there is water leftover, because of the emitter holes there is room for expansion. However, you should remove any timers and bring them inside and disconnect the drip itself from the hose bibb until after freezing temperatures in Spring. Mine is personally blown out as part of my irrigation winterization because it is hooked to my sprinkler system, but it is otherwise unnecessary.
@@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden thank you so much! I really appreciate it!
Thank you for all the information and your time spent on this video. what system would you suggest for a hosta bed that has 50 plus hostas?
It’s ultimately up to how you want to do it and the actual space itself. If the spacing isn’t consistent you can use just the 1/2” black distribution tubing and place emitters at each hosta. If it’s pretty consistent spacing, you can just purchase the emitter tubing with the appropriate spacing you need. Depending on the size of the bed, you may be able to get by with just the 1/4” tubing alone. Although for later expansion purposes, you may want to stick with the 1/2” tubing.
@@TheSouthernersNorthernGarden Thank you so much 🤗
Hello! I bought the B-Hyve system that you recommended but I'm having issues with the wifi hub staying connected to the wifi. I've contacted support but was wondering if you have had these issues.
I have not had any issues. Wifi can be tricky and there are all sorts of things that could be the cause, including the location placement or your router settings. My hub has been plugged into an outlet in my basement for over a year and I've not experienced a single issue since installing it. The connection from the hub to the actual valves are bluetooth though (to my understanding) so the valves should be placed within the distances noted in the instructions to the wifi hub for them to function properly.
I’m considering installing a watering system. Do you remove the tubes in the winter and reinstall all of it the following year?
I assume the "watering system" is drip since you commented on this video. Drip does not have to be removed in winter as the holes drain water from the system itself. However, you should not leave it connected to your hose spigot if that's your method of connection and should bring in any timers or other items you have connected to your hose spigot that could be damaged from the cold.