How Do You Set Up A Drip Irrigation System For A Vegetable Garden?
Growing your own vegetables is a healthy and cost-effective alternative to buying them at the supermarket. However, many people don’t have the time or the availability of water to hose a garden manually every day. The solution is drip irrigation. This type of system can be quite complex for large areas with multiple vegetables under cultivation, but for the average home gardener, a very simple system is all that’s needed. Drip irrigation is ideal for watering vegetables, as it slowly drips the available water directly onto the root system, delivering 90 percent of the water to the plant, and losing very little to runoff and evaporation. Measure the length of the vegetable plot and purchase enough black hose to extend the entire length. Place the hose in the vegetable plot and use a white pen to mark where each emitter will be. Usually this will be at the root system of each individual plant. Punch a hole into the black hose at each mark and insert an emitter into each hole. Place an en
