Hey, what's up everyone. We're back again with the second to last episode here in Water Week.

Now today I'm just gonna riff a little bit on some of my favorite strategies and tools and even products for watering my garden the way

that works for me right and so let's go ahead and run through it the first thing that

I like to talk about for me is my drip irrigation system.

Again I got mine from drip.com and it was the first time I'd ever set up drip and so it can be a little

challenging because you have to sometimes you got to

pressure regulate you got to throw a filter on there and then once you get that

main line going then it's pretty simple it's pretty plug and play you just throw

your elbows or your T brackets on and you go ahead and rig up your system but the thing for me is I

use half gallon emitters spaced six inches apart and my beds are about three feet by oh I would say four and a half

feet something like that it's it's a birdies garden bed so it's a corrugated

metal aloe zinc coated steel bed and it's an odd size it's not like a

classic four by four so what I like to do is I'll have those drip line emitters

about six inches apart from each other anywhere

from four to six inches apart so I'll have a header line come up and then I have

four to six inches apart probably about five-ish drip lines I would say going across.

And that's because I don't have a lot of space in my front yard garden and I like to plant in a

dense manner.

And so the way I think about it, the more drip lines I can squeeze in there the better now you can of course just solve this problem with a

Soaker hose where you could run a soaker hose matrix through this as well. I just find for me personally that the drip works a little better for me and I'm not growing anything that really needs consistent water all the way down the line, which is what a soaker hose would do.

It's completely fine for me to run my drip for an hour or two,

and honestly in a bed space that's that tight, the water permeates more or less the entire surface of the bed, save for the very edges.

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