Hi,
I live in an apartment and have a small, rooftop container garden. I’m done carrying 20 gallons of water up a flight of stairs everyday during the summer. So I’m looking at installing a small-scale drip irrigation system.
It will attach to my kitchen faucet as I don’t have an outdoor water source. Total distance from the faucet to the end of the run is less than 40 feet. I live on the top floor and my garden is literally directly above my kitchen. I’ll have a max of 15 plants attached. Mostly chilies and tomatoes. What I’m looking for is a system I can turn on manually and have my pots be completely saturated in 10-15 minutes (or less).
I’m looking at :
http://www.irrigatio...p-watering-kits
My main question is whether the ¼ in. main line in these kits will deliver enough water to soak my tomatoes in a reasonable amount of time. I grow in pro-mix and my pots have good drainage, so with reasonable attention it would be almost impossible to overwater tomatoes during the summer. Using the various flow regulators in the kit, I’m sure I can tone down the flow so I don’t drown the peppers.
Or do you think that a ½in main line is necessary with ¼ in droppers into the pots? I honestly have no idea how much water you can force through a ¼ inch hose that you’ve split 15 ways.
Although a slower drip might be better, and that’s something I can tinker with for sure, I need something that can get the job done quickly when someone other than me has to do the watering.
Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer. I spent all day yesterday researching this here and elsewhere, and saw some truly ingenious (and massive) irrigation set ups.
I live in an apartment and have a small, rooftop container garden. I’m done carrying 20 gallons of water up a flight of stairs everyday during the summer. So I’m looking at installing a small-scale drip irrigation system.
It will attach to my kitchen faucet as I don’t have an outdoor water source. Total distance from the faucet to the end of the run is less than 40 feet. I live on the top floor and my garden is literally directly above my kitchen. I’ll have a max of 15 plants attached. Mostly chilies and tomatoes. What I’m looking for is a system I can turn on manually and have my pots be completely saturated in 10-15 minutes (or less).
I’m looking at :
http://www.irrigatio...p-watering-kits
My main question is whether the ¼ in. main line in these kits will deliver enough water to soak my tomatoes in a reasonable amount of time. I grow in pro-mix and my pots have good drainage, so with reasonable attention it would be almost impossible to overwater tomatoes during the summer. Using the various flow regulators in the kit, I’m sure I can tone down the flow so I don’t drown the peppers.
Or do you think that a ½in main line is necessary with ¼ in droppers into the pots? I honestly have no idea how much water you can force through a ¼ inch hose that you’ve split 15 ways.
Although a slower drip might be better, and that’s something I can tinker with for sure, I need something that can get the job done quickly when someone other than me has to do the watering.
Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer. I spent all day yesterday researching this here and elsewhere, and saw some truly ingenious (and massive) irrigation set ups.