step 4 - Installing YOUR garden irrigation system
You may want to irrigate both your lawns and your gardens. You may only want to irrigate your gardens. Whatever your needs, the following instructions will assist with achieving the best result in the irrigation of yoru gardens. There are a wide range of ways to water your plants. This could be with pressure compensating dripper pipe, sprays, drippers, misters and more. It will depend on the plants you have and water watering regime they need.
Here are a few tips to getting the best result for your gardens:
Know what watering your different garden areas need. Ask an expert at your nursery.
Garden sprays and drippers use very little water compared to lawn rotators. You can gat a large number on a single zone
Typically most plants like water at the roots - dripper systems are great for this.
Pressure compensating pipe is great to get equal flow at every plant, using very little water.
Pressure compensating pipe needs to be left on for longer and shouldn’t be connected to sprays who don’t need to be on for as long
Run the 19mm pipe to the garden then use 4mm pipe to run to each spray or dripper. This allows you to move heads as plants change
