What are the Advantages of a Drip Irrigation System?
With so much competition for our time, energy and money in the world, the thought of cultivating a garden can feel like just another chore at times. Nevertheless, drip irrigation is considered more efficient and labor-free gardening.
Because it waters directly to the plant root zone, drip is more effective than other watering systems, so it has low impact on environment and promote biodiversity.
Not to mention an automatic timer for use with your entire garden drip irrigation system will keep the rest of your gardening tasks off of your back as well. Today on the blog, we will tell you about the benefits of drip irrigation and how to make the best use of it.
The Concept Behind Drip Irrigation
Drip irrigation is the simplest way to start saving time and effort watering your garden. A drip system is where water drips out of drippers that run along tubes around your plants.
This method allows precise watering, so that you can ensure each plant receives the amount of water it needs.
Unlike the sprinklers, each dripper has a known flow rate that will result in specific amount of water dripping over the roots of nearby plants.
Flow rates are GPH (Gallons per hour) and done on a climate basis. Drip irrigation systems with offer savings up to 70% over traditional watering and sprinklers easy installation, set-up and use.
Advantages of Drip Irrigation
For decades, gardeners used traditional watering methods like hand watering, overhead sprinklers, and soaker hoses.
Although these methods can be successful in watering, there are also negative aspects such as water lying stagnant and getting them unevenly watered along with an increased chance for the growth of plant disease.
Drip irrigation is favored by many due to concerns over water conservation and efficiency.
Improved Watering Efficiency
This type of watering( drip irrigation) is one of the most efficient. By targeting the water to go directly to the root zone of your plants, you are giving them just the amount they need, which allows both healthier and more developed plants.
A direct water source directly reduces evaporation needs, run out and wind. Not only that but watering your plants at the base avoids much of what water causes in other gardens, less surrounding soil moisture means less weeds forever after.
A Scalable Irrigation Solution
They are also well-suited to large or small gardens as they can be adapted to any kind of garden you may have, whether it is for container plants, row crops/vineyards, or greenhouses.
Rain Bird Landscape & Garden Drip Watering Kit includes a complete system with basic tubing, fittings and drippers of varying flow rates. This kit will get you up and running so that you can easily adjust your watering according to your plants’ needs.
As a general rule, two to three times per week in mild weather and three to four times weekly during hot summer weather will help your plants grow better.
For even more efficiency, we recommend adding a timer, such as the Rain Bird Premium Hose End Timer, for watering automatically on your pre-programmed schedule.
Water Conservation
Drip irrigation can save 30-50% water as compared to surface irrigation. This leads to saving you a substantial amount of water and it is eco- friendly and comes with reduced water bill benefits.
A drip irrigation system not only conserves water uses up to 70% from the traditional method, but will also save you money in gardening with its low operational costs compared to some other sprinkler systems.
Drip irrigation systems can decrease soil erosion and the contamination of surrounding waterways with fertilizers and pesticides.
Increased Plant Health
Drip irrigation can help your garden plants to be healthy by keeping mildew from leaves, preventing your wet leaves from spreading diseases and reducing evaporation of water droplets. A proper watering schedule allows minerals to be absorbed more easily, the result of which is healthier soil and plant growth.
Flexible Watering Schedule
A common benefit of drip irrigation that is often forgotten is it saves time. By adding a timer you can set your specific location’s unique watering schedule to be as efficient and easy as possible.
Using Rain Bird Premium Hose End Timer, a drip system can be 100% automated — meaning no more hours spent hand watering, dragging sprinklers around or weeding!
Keeping the drip irrigation system working efficiently
Drip irrigation is a handy solution for garden watering. However, for you to realize the benefits of a drip irrigation system, regular maintenance is important. This involves leak checks, flushing tubes and filters, as well as replacement of any damaged parts.
If you do not have too much time and energy to water the garden, for watering it is a good way that using drip irrigation system.
Not only is this way of watering far more beneficial for your plants, but it too can help you have healthier plants in the long run and also save money on water bills as a result of better use of water, help with conservation of our planet by using water eco-friendly saving potential waste and further plant growth such as weed infestations.
As you can see, having a system tailored by R&S Landscaping will save you time and frustration from the garden watering team perspective. Your garden will give you so much beauty, health and peace of mind if only you set it up properly.