How to make a drip irrigation system

Watering - one of the toughest gardening works. How desyatilitrovyh peretaskat watering cans were on the beds - it is terrible to remember. In the yard we have twenty-first century, but still many people are wary of watering systems - it seems that it's scary is difficult and expensive.

Liss1970 (Member FORUMHOUSE):

We were on site a lot of people comes, and I do not understand people's reaction: "Oh! How interesting! But we'd rather hang with a watering can and then we complain about back pain and drought! "

On FORUMHOUSE we told about the different types of irrigation systems available to every gardener. Today let's talk about how to make the system of drip irrigation in the area - from the simplest, from the fact that at hand, to the serious, from the normal components.

Drip irrigation: drip, sprinklers, mikrorazbryzgivateli

Drip irrigation system is constructed here as a slight pressure of the water supplied through the hoses to the required place on the site and through the drip falls under each plant.

Drip irrigation is not only free you from running around with a watering can, this way many big and bold plus. The main thing is that the drip irrigation water slowly, drop by drop, applied directly to the plant roots. Thus, the soil throughout the growing period remains uniformly moist plants relieved of stress, which occurs during the drying beds, the water is significantly (average 50%) saved. This system was developed and for areas with water scarcity, for their most effective use.

It is also important that this type of watered only cultivated plants, weeds do not get moisture. Simultaneously with drip irrigation can be carried out fertilization: fertilizer dissolved in water are better absorbed by plants.

In systems for drip irrigation commonly used emitter of micropipes which are arranged in the hoses at regular intervals. The choice of hose depends on water-loving plants, soil type, water consumption. As a rule, one fruit tree missing 3-5 droppers or hose with built-droppers, located 40 centimeters.

In the photo below - irrigation system participant FORUMHOUSE Vladimir:

Completing the theoretical part, we recall that there are several methods of drip irrigation:

• Watering with drippers (described above and are popular with our Truckers) is good for watering the vegetables in the greenhouse, and the small size of plants.
• Watering with mikrorazbryzgivatelyami good because it covers a large area of ​​water. Used for watering hedges, shrubs and trees.
• Watering with sprinklers, which creates a dense fog. These nozzles are used for watering large lawns, fields planted with grass, etc.

Gravity irrigation system for the garden in the steppe

Consider a few of drip irrigation systems, apply in areas FORUMHOUSE users.

Member portal Zyoma I was frustrated by the results of one of the first holiday season on your site (the former steppe with a complete lack of shade). Two months was not rain, and once to the country could not go two weeks. During this time, half of the garden trees just dropped leaves.

Zyoma (User FORUMHOUSE):

In general, I was thinking about the system of drip irrigation.

Since the country did not have beds, water only needed trees, spend it on the prairie wild plants do not like. Hence the first requirement - watering should be a point. The second requirement stems from the high pressure (with significant jumps) in the water supply system in the area that could be fraught with disruption of hoses. This means that watering should be pressureless.

For devices gravity drip irrigation system required:

• Inset into the tank - 2 pcs ..
• Filter 1/2 - 2 pcs ..
• Choke to 1/2 the slag is 5 mm.
• Mikroshlang 5 mm - 100 m.
• Tees for mikroshlanga - 50 pcs ..
• Adjustable drip 0-6 l / h - 60 pcs ..
• Water Tanks - dvuhsotlitrovyh two drums of oil - already were.

Barrels were installed on the four pallets. For convenience, the hoses were pinned to the ground with wire staples. Droppers and tees are simply inserted into the phone. The entire irrigation system (80 meters mikroshlanga) going-versed in 10 minutes, and for winter storage is placed in a plastic bag.

Consider in detail how to construct the system, can be in the photos.

These two barrels ensure a full forty-watering fruit trees and bushes. For each of the plants to select the optimal intensity of watering.

Depending on droppers adjustment in two barrels of water totaling 400 liters enough, on average, 80 hours - i.e., mid-week I had to go to the garden and fill capacity. After installation of this system all watering work began to take 10 minutes - at the output, which carried out in the country, dropper "parted", before leaving on Sunday night "Camouflage". It's all.

Mistake Zyoma It was that he chose transparent microtubes.

Hose for drip irrigation system must be black.

Therefore tubules were green, some emitter had to open to failure to water pressure yl washed away from the tube walls.

Pressurized irrigation convenient unconfined, it virtually eliminates sedimentation. In Zyoma It has been thought to fully automate the watering system by means of its connection to the water supply through the Chinese timer. The experiment ended sadly.

Zyoma:

The pressure in the system we have is quite high and unstable (more than 4 atm. case), and it ended a breakthrough tube in my absence (minus 30 cubic meters of water on the counter, all right, that everything is under the apple tree).

But in general, this irrigation system though is the status of the time, proved to be well - despite the constant 40 in the sun, at times passing in 50, all plants are alive. The next season of irrigation system has been improved - as the 40 fruit trees and shrubs of one micro-tubes with a diameter of 5 mm was still not enough has been traced in the trunk hose of larger diameter, which has made a branch diameter of 5 mm.

Psevdokapelnaya watering system for the flower beds

Lukaed for cucumbers created irrigation system, which he called "psevdokapelnoy" due to the fact that it used non-core funds. For the manufacture of the system have been purchased: Composition pipe and meter silicone tubing, tight dressing to the pipe, and six pharmacy systems, which play the role of droppers.

Further Lukaed unrolled the tube in the center of a bed of cucumber, cut it to size, the distal end of a wooden corked Chopyk.

Drill 3.5 mm drilled holes for tubes dropper tube under cut cucumber stem with a margin of 2-3 mm. Tubes inserted in the holes.

Lukaed (User FORUMHOUSE):

Duct should be cut at an angle, so you can insert them into the holes.

Irrigation system connected to the tank with water through a connector and a piece of silicone hose. Pipes fastened hooks of the wire.

at each cucumber flower bed It took six meters of pipe. In this system does not comply with the basic principle of drip irrigation - the moisture goes to the roots of plants continuously, Lukaed open water for 30 minutes a day. But the plants feel well, and the harvest was all right. And most importantly, the cost of everything watering system for the two beds was 700 rubles.

Lukaed:

Plastic pipe can be reused - unneeded holes can roll up tape or muffle M4 screw.

The automated system of drip irrigation

Liss1970 made automated system of drip irrigation, which works without any human intervention. Now this system is the only negative - it is not equipped with special sensors and does not turn off when there is rain.

For this system, used equipment from Israel (drip hose, drip outside, sprinklers, timers and push-in fitting, timers; filter and pump were domestic and hose - Chinese).

watering system did so on each bed of a width of 60 cm laid on two lines with drip hose distance between drippers 30 cm. Hose bent at 90 degrees and fixed U-shaped brackets made of aluminum wire. Thus, to ensure a continuous irrigation beds. As the supply line acted Chinese hose, drip hose connected thereto conventional quick couplings.

Through the valve with a timer system is connected to the pump running skvazhennomu KIV-1.

Liss1970 (User FORUMHOUSE):

The valve is opened - the pump is turned on. The valve is closed - the pump is turned off.

Total Liss1970 I made three irrigation line (based debit wells - 400 liters per hour).

The first line, to the beds consisted of semidesyatimetrovogo drip hose. For watering small beds five external droppers been established.

A second line arranged for the lawn. Watering the lawn sprinkler to do with the use of purchased from the online store. On the lawn area of ​​approximately 200 sq. m 3 was enough three sprinklers, plus another sprinkler - for watering flower beds.

The third, also a "sprinkler" line only works for irrigation of potatoes. With potato ridge 80 square meters cope two sprinkler.

The pump is connected through a security group, including automatic 2 A and a single cable, so get quite a automatic irrigation system. The only thing - setting the watering time, had to take into account the peculiarities of suburban power.

Liss1970:

The first watering is set at 7.00, and the second at 20.00, otherwise is not guaranteed operation of the pump.

The main conclusion to which Liss1970 It came after the system has fulfilled the first season: Success is determined by the debit of the well and the pressure in the supply hose. At insufficient pressure sprinklers will not work and the pressure above 3.5 atm., Is tear drop hose. Another of the experience - in this irrigation system is by no means impossible to save the filter. Than it is thinner, the better the system will work.

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