My Gardens Start Out Beautiful...
We have a large vegetable garden and several flower gardens around our two acre yard. I enjoy getting out in the yard to work when spring arrives. I'm motivated to water the flowers regularly for a few weeks--it's just so nice to be outside on those beautiful spring days. Then spring becomes summer. Life starts intruding. This deadline and that are hitting and the convenience of going out to water the flowers seems to slide to "tomorrow." Before long our once beautiful flowers are thin and pale and dying.
Then I discovered how easy it is to install a drip irrigation system with a timer. Now I am enjoying beautiful and healthy gardens through the entire season.
Mister Landscaper Microsprinkler and Drip Irrigation System
You can see these products at MisterLandscaper.com. I decided to purchase a Mister Landscaper Starter Kit and then supplemented it with à la carte purchases of additional accessories (landscape stake assemblies, spray jets, tubing, etc.). It would be hard to imagine an easier installation besides bribing someone to do it for you.
I laid the tube along the desired path, closed off one end with an end fitting and attached a hose fitting to the other end (a simple threading process). Then I decided where to place the first microsprinkler and attached it to the 1/2 inch poly tubing. The kit comes with a hole punch tool for punching small holes in the poly tubing to attach sprinkler units. If you change your mind or later want to move a sprinkler, there are also hole plugs.
The landscape stake assembly comes with a small tube attached. A small "coupler" is pushed into the end of the small tube and the other side is pushed into the hole you just punched in the large tubing. Easy. A heavenly choir hits a high note.
Select a micro spray jet according to the desired watering pattern and simply screw it into the top of the sprinkler. Push the sprinkler into the ground (the attached stake), connect the large tubing to the water faucet, turn it on, and we have micro irrigation. A heavenly choir hits another chord in harmony.
There is a wide variety of sprinkler heads to meet any need. For example, I have one set with a highly directional sprinkler head that sprays across five feet of grass to water a fig tree. For the flower pot sitting above one of my raised beds and a few other spot watering places, I used the drip irrigation accessory.
So experiment with sprinkler heads to get just the desired spray pattern (they screw off and on easily), then figure out how far apart you'll need them to be placed. Add more sprinklers where desired. Turn on the water again and the heavenly choir bursts into hymn. Your neighbors are wondering where all the noise is coming from, looking at you funny, but you don't care because with little time and money invested you have a working micro irrigation system.
Cover the tubing in mulch and you're ready to go. Almost. Next step...
CONCLUSION
Mister Landscaper products (with the one mentioned exception) are well designed, competitively priced, and they work. I highly recommend them as well as the Orbit timer. If your Lowes or Home Depot doesn't sell them, let them know they're making a mistake. read more