The fact that plants and all kinds of crops grown in suburban areas need regular watering, no one doubts. Another thing is how to make sure that watering does not turn into a grueling dragging of buckets with water from the barrel to the bed? Here, as they say, the problem must be approached with the mind. Most likely, the ideal solution will be the created system of watering the site with your own hands.
Contents of
- What can be the methods of watering the site?
- How to make drip irrigation system by yourself?
- Video mounting self-irrigation system
What can be the methods of watering the site?
That there you do not invent and do not plan, but once again to create a bicycle you are unlikely to succeed, since there are only three main types of watering the site:
- sprinkling;
- drip irrigation;
- subsurface watering.
Sprinkler is actual when you are caring for a flower bed or lawn. Just on this method, the built-in systems of self-watering are based on their own hands, because sprinklers are considered to be the simplest types of lawn irrigation systems that can be made with their own hands, because their structures consist of pumps, hoses and sprinklers.
If you need to take care of garden trees, greenhouses and orchards, then drip irrigation or a micro-irrigation system will be effective. In general, the drip irrigation system of hand-made execution can provide you with great savings. Only in order to create it, it is advisable to do preparatory work even before the time when the spring field works come, that is, at the very end of winter. Although this is not so important.
Well, if we are talking about perennial hedges, then the method of intrasoil irrigation, through pipes or porous hoses - will prove to be exactly what you need.
Taking into account the relevance and urgency of the use of drip irrigation systems, we advise you on our site to learn more about photo and video lessons about how the irrigation system is created by oneself.
How to make drip irrigation system by yourself?
Like any other construction, it is necessary to start the process of creating an irrigation system with well-planned planning.
1. So, draw a plot of the suburban area and identify the need for irrigation zones( beds or plants).
2. Next, consider the layout of the main pipelines, stop valves, hoses and individual droppers, taking into account the terrain on which your site is located. For example, if there is a clearly pronounced bias, then the pipes should be placed horizontally, and the hoses - under the slope.
3. Do not forget that the garden watering system, created in-house, can provide multiple connections and branching. Therefore, it is necessary to note all the supposed places, and also, to calculate the number of corresponding elements( connectors, splitters), including stubs and cranes.
4. Then, it does not hurt to think about the type of equipment used and the trade brand that you would like to give preference to. Of course, this may depend on the final cost of your irrigation system.
5. To simplify the laying of pipelines, it is best to use plastic products. First, they are much cheaper, and secondly, it is lighter than metal counterparts. In addition, such pipes will not come into contact with any aggressive elements of fertilizers and will not be rusted, which will significantly increase their service life.
6. Pay attention to the water supply. If there is no plumbing in your area, then the most correct solution is to install a filling tank on a one and a half meter or two meter high.
7. It is far from superfluous to install filters that minimize the possibility of contamination of hoses and plugging of droppers.
Remember that the installation of the irrigation system with your own hands should be performed only after the formation of the main beds, flower beds and similar zones on the site.
