Drip Irrigation for Dummies Kit

I have enjoyed numerous books from the "... For Dummies" series. I love how they approach their material in a way that someone who knows nothing about the subject can understand. The books then go on to give a useful level of depth about the subject. This kit does not. The ''book'' is a pamphlet and is only useful for very small gardens. Just because I am a drip irrigation dummy does not mean I am a dummy with a small garden. I''m picking up my drip irrigation knowlege piecemeal with no confidence in my conclusions and hoped that this kit would solve that. It doesn''t. I want to know what size pipes are appropriate where? How many emitters can I connect before the water pressure gets too low? What, exactly, is an emitter? How does water pressure affect my setup? When are filters necessary? What the heck''s a manifold? How long are you supposed to water (that would be a complex answer depending on emitter, water pressure, and soil, I would imagine)? What kind of timers are best for which situations? When I go looking for answers I tend to get swamped with options I don''t understand. I would expect a dummies book to address these questions clearly and concisely. Instead you get something that''s only useful if you''re trying to water less than a dozen plants and that will probably get clogged up fairly soon because there''s no filter (or so I gather I could be wrong about that, I haven''t found a book to explain it properly to me).

Edited to add: (at request from the comments) Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and All Climates, 2nd edition

is the closest I''ve come to finding my answers.

It''s not as ''basic'' as I would like and I haven''t tried to implement its reccomendations yet but it does appear to have the answers to my questions.

This is a good starter product and helped me with my first drip irrigation system. I stared at all the individual components in the Home Depot first and then got this one. It comes with all the items you need to hook it up to your hose or existing sprinkler and also has 50 feet of drip line and 50 feet of regular line. Great start and while not for the largest of gardens will provide a good base that you can then expand with the tons of other options that are available on the market.

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The hose part works fine. The information part about drip irrigation did not.

Every " ***** For Dummies" book has detailed information and gives you background on what you are doing and what you can expect from what you bought. This "kit" gives you the hoses, but no book, just a small pamphlet on how to layout the drip hoses but no insight into what you are doing, really. There is no info on how long to keep dripping. I feel adventurous; I''ll just have to do it the old fashioned trial and error way to see what works and what doesn''t.

I am happy with the water saving part. No water runs out on the street anymore.

It all goes into the soil where it''s supposed to. That part I''m happy about.

I would have appreciated a paragraph at the back of the pamphlet "For more information on drip irrigaion, see our website at "www. XXXX . com "

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Anyone that has used a cheap hose or a cheap hose sprayer knows that they leak and usually are not worth the savings. This little packet of junk falls into that catagory. It took me several hours to measure and then feed all the tubes into the various attachments and I made sure every one was tight (read; elbow grease). When I turned it on the pressure was very uneven and leaking from the main connection to the hose (to the point that it would waste any savings that the system was supposed to provide in the first place. This product gets a FAIL.

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I initally installed these systems in four copper flower boxes that are roughly 18" x 48" rectangles. A 4-line manifold was attached to the 1/2" feed pipe in each flower box. (I used a ball valve on the outside of each flower box feed pipe so I could control each box independently if issues developed.) The 4-station manifold may require some work. I had to clean out green plastic injection flashing on two of the 4 manifold lines so that full water pressure could be had at the small sprinkers. I used a 3/32" drill bit in my drill and cleaned them out, then they worked perfectly. The small sprinkers that come with the kit are excellent. You can individually adjust the radius of the water spray from a few inches out to in my case 9 inches. Also, these small sprinkers do not easily clog up with calcium deposits. I''ve had some installed for 2 years with no problems. The water output when using the sprinkers is done in a soft multi-stream form, not a high pressure mist form, thus this kit gets the job done without spraying water all over my deck. This is the best small watering setup I have had in the last 40 years. I''ve now converted all my dripers to these small sprinker type output heads.