Drip irrigation fittings

Specifications

Drip irrigation is a very effective way to water your garden. It supplies the water directly to the roots of your plants, thereby reducing evaporation and water loss through wind flow. It also helps in reducing weed problems and fungal diseases like powdery mildew and black spot because the water only goes to where plants can use it, and does not sit and pool elsewhere. For that same reason, drip irrigation is a great source for water conservation. If you automate the irrigation, you won’t even have to think about it.

7 Steps to Install Simple Drip Irrigation Fittings

Step one: connect to an Impact sprinkler.

Screw the vacuum breaker to the pressure regulator, if your hose bib doesn’t already have its own vacuum breaker. This part will prevent contaminated hose water from backwashing into the house’s supply lines. Attach the filter to the pressure regulator. Connect the hose swivel to the threaded opening jutting out from the side of the filter. This has a barbed end to accept the cut end of the tubing and hold it tight. Screw the entire assemblage to the hose bib.

Step two: lay out the tubing

Attach a length of unperforated tubing or garden hose to the hose bib, long enough to reach from the bib to the plant beds. Using barbed connectors, attach the roll of ½-inch tubing with emitters to the unperforated tubing at the edge of the plant bed. Snake the tubing with emitters around the plants, near their roots. Keep the lines of tubing about 12 inches apart.

Step three: base plastic stakes

Once you’ve got the tubing in position, use plastic ground stakes to hold it down. Be sure the hook at the top of the stakes fits over the tubing. Wherever the tubing has to turn at a sharp angle or branch out to another section, cut it and reattach it with tee or elbow connectors. Cut the end of the tubing when you are finished; leave it open so you can flush it with water later.

Step four: lay tubing around the plants and trees

Position loops of ¼-inch tubing around the trees and shrubs. Use a hole punch to pierce the ½-inch tubing where the loop will begin. Insert a small tee connector into the hole. Attach one end of ¼-inch tubing with emitters to one side of the tee. Now make a lasso shape around the trunk of the tree. The loop should be big enough to extend halfway out to the edge of the tree’s canopy. Cut the tubing and attach the end to the other side of the tee.

Step five: use micro sprayers

Where the plantings are so dense it’s difficult to snake tubing at the roots, branch out with micro sprayers. Pierce the ½-inch tubing with a hole punch, then insert a small straight connector. Attach a length of unperforated ¼-inch tubing long enough to reach the location of the micro sprayer. Connect the other end of the ¼-inch tubing to the micro sprayer. Clip the sprayer to a stake and position it in the ground cover. Use a similar method to branch out with single emitters (to rose bushes, for example), foggers, or other specialized drip heads.

Step six: shut the tubing end

Once all the tubing and attachments are placed, turn on the water for a minute to flush dirt out of the tubing. Turn off the water. Slide a ½-inch end clamp onto the open end of the tubing. Fold the end, then slide the other loop of the end clamp over the folded piece to hold it in its crimped position.

Step seven: cover the tubing with mulch

Clean up around all the tubing and make sure all connections are tight and no emitters are blocked or clogged. Turn on the water and check for leaks or bad connections.To keep the water from evaporating before it reaches the plant roots and to give the garden a manicured appearance, cover all the exposed tubing with about two inches of mulch.

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Yuhuan Shinehone Plastic Industrial Factory is a manufacturer of high pressure pipe works. Our industrial pipe fittings have various applications and are currently being used in many industries around the world.

Founded in 1997, Shinehone has and continues to develop advanced techniques in the production of cost effective thermoplastic pressure pipe fittings and valves. We also offer a wide range of compression fittings for drip irrigation fittings, impact sprinklers and swing joints. Additionally, we manufacture filters used for a wide range of irrigation systems related applications. Our products are safe and friendly to the environment and our production processes are socially responsible.

We welcome and look forward to the opportunity to work with you on your drip irrigation fittings  need.