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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Drip Irrigation Basics

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Drip irrigation can simplify your gardening life tenfold. Simply by not needing to go out and hand water like crazy all of the time, you can devote more time to other tasks in the garden. Here's how I think about setting up a system! Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, well, we're back again with another epic gardening podcast.

0:05.0

Today we're talking about drip irrigation and how to set a system up,

0:10.0

and so this question comes from Merica,

0:12.6

America, hopefully I pronounce that right,

0:15.1

but she says I want to learn how to do an irrigation setup system.

0:18.3

So let's talk about it.

0:20.1

There's a million and one ways to do that

0:22.3

and I've done it in my front yard. It's fantastic. It is such a time saver in the garden.

0:28.4

Now what I would personally recommend is if you're going to do this and it's your first time, you should probably get a

0:37.4

kit. And I got mine from dripdepo.com which made it a lot easier because they sent out all the parts and I didn't have to go over to Home Depot,

0:48.6

create this crazy materials list and you know gamble and hope that I put all the pieces together correctly.

0:55.6

Sure, when I got my drip depot kit, there were definitely a few pieces I didn't need,

1:00.6

but better to have pieces that you don't need,

1:02.9

than not have pieces that you do need, right?

1:05.4

And so what I would say for starting out

1:07.0

your drip irrigation is you do need to figure out

1:10.8

how you're going to water each of your plants and how you're going to get the water to

1:17.2

watering each of your plants, right? And so the way, I'll just go through the way mine works

1:22.3

so we can talk about it. The first

1:24.5

problem I had to solve was figuring out where my water was going to begin,

1:29.3

where it was coming out of the water line.

1:33.0

And so for me in my yard, that it's kind of an old house.

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