Gravity Fed Drip Irrigation

A drip irrigation is the most efficient way to water a flower garden or vegetable. Connecting a drip system or a rain barrel storage tank is to maximize your efforts to conserve water. This type of irrigation is like gravity fed drip irrigation known.

One advantage of using rain water diverted into a storage container is that it is pure and untreated. This water is much better for your plants because it contains no chemicals such as fluorine or chlorineCity water that is found usually treated.

Hose Timer

When deciding on a storage tank or rain barrel, you should check the socket on the bottom of the tank. Ideally, you want a thread of 3 / 4 inch male hose as you would find on a standard faucet. If there is another outlet, you may need to buy the adapter that connects a drip irrigation system.

With all the systems of drip irrigation, a minimum pressure required to function properly. To overcome the pressure of gravitypowered system the source of water must be increased. The general rule is that for each height of 2.3 meters to increase the system pressure of 1 €. A tank of water that is 2.3 meters high, contains about a pound of pressure when full. However, if the tank is half empty, the pressure will drop to a half pound of pressure. The same high tank 5 feet in the air about 3 pounds of pressure to have when completely full.

Consider the radiator and radiator hosewhich will operate at very low pressures, when the compilation of a gravity-fed system. Remove the spotlight Jain Irrigation work very well. Quarter-inch soaker dripline and are perfect for the T-tape irrigation of row crops from a barrel rain. Most irrigation timers irrigation systems need to work about ten pounds of pressure, the most likely to work in this situation. But the latest technology has several timers that can operate without pressure to produceall.