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GatorGuy

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Tuesday, June 5th 2012, 8:06am

We just had a drip irrigation class.
It was well attended.
They did echo something you said.
They said one reason they came was the myriad of options available confused them.
It's not near as complicated as people think but the hundreds of variations possible can be intimidating at first glance

Wet_Boots

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Location: Metro NYC

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Tuesday, June 5th 2012, 9:46am

the biggest problem with drip may be root intrusion with buried tubing - that won't be an issue with discrete emitters in tubing laid atop the soil, but they need a good deep ($$$) mulch cover to be immune to foot traffic

grote

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Monday, April 22nd 2013, 7:27pm

drip

drip is hard to sell in st louis. because we have very good water supply/ pressures and people here just like to see a lot of water flying through the air. do a lot of micro-spray for pots. and people don't seem to understand that the drip needs to run long, so you go back and they've changed the drip run time to 10 minutes, becusea they think all the zones should run 10 minutes. then i yell aT THEM ABOUT CHANGING THE RUN TIMES I PUT IN WHEN I TURNED IT ON.

Scott76

Active Member

Posts: 45

Location: Kansas City

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Thursday, May 2nd 2013, 1:59pm

As someone said before, I hate not being able to see the equipment working when checking a system. With sprays in a landscape bed I can visually verify everything is working properly before leaving the property. With drip, I get a frantic call from a homeowner about plants dying and why isn't the sprinkler working that I said was working. I've found some very specific uses for it that mostly revolve around single flower pots here and there.

DogT

New Member

Posts: 7

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Yesterday, 5:12pm

I'd like to use it and we tried the soaker hose, but the water just didn't spread enough in our soil to be effective. Thought about drip and decided that was a no go too, same thing with the soaker, we have so many leaves around here, raking up the leaves means getting into the drip or soaker system, too much extra work. Just doesn't work in all places, not that I'm enamored with the spray system either. But like others have said, you can see it work. I'd still use the soaker or drip in a veg garden though.
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