Micro Drip System for garden

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Pleinair22 Venice, CA Oct 24, 2007

I've been helping a friend put in a micro drip system for his back garden around his large patio....

Unfortuneately, his dog Monster, has been chewing off the drip heads from the 1/4" tubbing into the potted plants and in the surrounding garden.

We've moved the 1/2" tubing up to the top of the fence and run 1/4" tubing down with a drip head at the end (bottom of the fence).

I can't find any information on how the water disburses into the soil (in laymans terms).

Will the water wet the soil bed so that the roots of the various flowers and plants will get enough??

If these drip heads are against the fence .... will the water disburse to the front of the garden bed??

I truly appreciate your help.

Pleinair22

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ecrane3 Dublin, CA(Zone 9a) Oct 24, 2007

I don't think that's going to work for you--in some soils the water may travel out a little ways from where the dripper is, but unless your bed's on a slope, there's no way a dripper at the fence is going to provide moisture for plant at the front of the bed. You really need to have the drippers positioned right by the plants' roots. Typically you'll place a couple drippers in a circle around each plant. You'd be better off doing micro sprinklers rather than drippers--you can do them with the same 1/4 and 1/2 inch tubing, but since they're sprinklers they'll spread water over a larger area than the drippers will. You should be able to find the micro sprinkler parts in the same place at the store where you found the drippers, just make sure when you're buying them the radius of the spray will reach the front of your bed and you should be fine. I'd also buy ones that can do a half circle of water, otherwise you'll be soaking your fence all the time and making it rot faster (they come in 1/4 circle, 1/2 circle, or whole circle, and some you can adjust between those)

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