A cheap drip irrigation system will help water-hungry veg continue to grow as well as save time.
Watering fruit and vegetables is very time consuming, and having a watering system for those plants which are out of the way helps save time. Courgettes will grow very quickly if they are given plenty of water.
Drip irrigation:
- also known as trickle irrigation or micro-irrigation
- minimizes the use of water by allowing water to drip slowly to the roots of plants, either onto the soil surface or directly onto the root zone
- uses devices called micro-spray heads, which spray water in a small area, or dripping emitters.
- subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) uses buried dripperline at or below the plant roots.
- good in areas where water supplies are limited or recycled water is used for irrigation
Recycled water bottles can be filled with water and fitted with a mircro-spray head, which is pushed into the soil around the roots, to make a cheap drip system.
This cheap irrigation system is:
- perfect to water vegetables and soft fruit
- inexpensive
- good for indoor or outdoor use
- Click the amazon icon in the margin to buy this cheap drip irrigation system.
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Hi, I have some questions about drip tape laid above the ground? Laying down drip tape along roots of crops, cotton
etc.
Is it more feasible comparing with subsurface irrigation?
because drip tape is low cost, and easy to lay down subsurface.
Disadvange is while we reap, reaping machine many damage the drip tape.
Hope to get your help. Thank you.
Best Regards
Comment by Vivi — July 16, 2009 @ 8:27 am
Hi, thank you for contacting TopVeg.
You are right to say that the tape will be damaged if the reaping machine catches it. But gardeners using a hand-held fork (to dig potatoes) will also damage the tape if they are not careful.
Because of this I lay the drip line on the surface down the row, and remember where it is, so that I can avoid it when harvesting.
The evaporation loss, because it is on the surface, is insignificant.
I hope this helps
TopVeg
Comment by TopVeg — July 23, 2009 @ 7:25 am
It is a useful information about drip irrigation. I am a farmer and we have very large fields, before drip
irrigation system was found it was a nightmare to irrigate all those fields because where i live is a place
that does not rain so much. Now we use drip irrigation, saving so many water and it is a lot easier to irrigate
the field with that. I am trying to read everything about drip irrigation and i recommend every farmer to use that
technique, so i am grateful for everyone who gives information about it. I also found a very good guide about drip
irrigation and it may be useful too for those who want to learn more information about that;
http://agricultureguide.org/
Comment by peio revuelta — May 15, 2010 @ 11:11 am
Peio
Thank you for the link for drip irrigation – saving water but giving plants what they need is a great technique!
TopVeg
Comment by TopVeg — May 15, 2010 @ 6:21 pm
Great article. Remember, filtration is vital to a good drip system. Drip can solve many water shortage issues and many companies are pushing drip, especially subsurface drip with great success. Subsurface drip tape is used extensively for tomato, cotton and alfalfa production.
Comment by frank — March 1, 2011 @ 5:23 am
Thanks for your comment and the useful info
Regards
TopVeg
Comment by TopVeg — March 1, 2011 @ 5:16 pm