For those with a more laid-back approach to garden irrigation, in-line drip emitters are a fast and easy way to distribute water. These hoses are smaller in diameter than the main hose but may ...

Like drip irrigation, soaker hoses direct water to the soil line, eliminating overspray, keeping plant leaves dry, and ...

Drip irrigation is an in-ground system that brings water off your main water line, through a backflow preventer, to your garden. It first connects with a manifold—which splits the water into the ...

This leads to crop losses on many occasions. But studies show that crop cultivation can be done profitably by adopting drip irrigation even in periods of water scarcity and load-shedding.

Adding a new zone to an irrigation system; PEX vs. copper; repairing stripped screw holes. Lee Gilliam travels to Austin, Texas to help a homeowner add drip line to her existing sprinkler spray ...

I recently wrote here about my drip irrigation lines getting chewed up by urban wildlife. I’ve seen squirrels, skunks, raccoons, and opossums in my backyard over the years, but learned that ...

Stevens hollies are 3 years old. Until this year they have done well. They are on daily drip irrigation, and in June and July, I added hand-watering and feed. All the plants are slowly turning ...

Other key steps: Install drip-line irrigation and add fresh compost. (Adobe Stock) Get your garden beds ready for spring planting: • Harvest the last of the cool season crops like cabbage ...

"You can see under here, it’s just a drip, drip, drip," farmer Matt Peterson said, picking up a line running under ... are grown using sub-surface drip irrigation. "You’re getting water ...

JAMIESON, Ore. — Corey Maag’s mid-1990s shift to drip irrigation made him an early adopter of the method now common in the sizable southeast Oregon/southwest Idaho onion growing region.