Drip Watering System

[vikkib]

I'm looking to get a drip watering system for my little 6x8 GH.

I found this one (apparently half price) and wondering if anyone has used this one/one like it?

Price wise it looks a bit too good to be true but I'm also thinking that for that money it might be worth a try.

[veggiechicken]

Ummmmmmmm - you found what one vikki

[vikkib]

Ummmmmmmm - you found what one vikki

Doh! I hadn't finished my coffee! ; )

Tricklematic Watering Kit

[vikkib]

Hmmmm!

Having had a closer look at the pics it looks suspiciously like the cheap micro watering systems available for a few quid on various sites.

These kits don't tend to get good reviews...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sales-and-Ma...atering+system

I wonder if I should look at it as getting a timer and a pressure adapter for £25 and if the actual irrigation bit works it's a bonus?!

[zazen999]

I've just bought a solar irrigation system as the poly at the community gardens needs to be irrigated this summer...they have one at Ryton and it seems to be working ok so I thought I'd go for it. It waters every 3 hours and I got the one with the seep hose.

I had one of the ones you are looking at and to be honest, it's easier just to water by hand. I grow in trays in the greenhouse so just pour water into the tray and leave it to soak up.

[vikkib]

I've just bought a solar irrigation system as the poly at the community gardens needs to be irrigated this summer...they have one at Ryton and it seems to be working ok so I thought I'd go for it. It waters every 3 hours and I got the one with the seep hose.

I had one of the ones you are looking at and to be honest, it's easier just to water by hand. I grow in trays in the greenhouse so just pour water into the tray and leave it to soak up.

I'm going to be growing in the ground in the greenhouse and was planning to mulch the surface of the bed and insert plastic bottles into the ground, next to the plants, and put the drippers inside the bottles so the water gets straight to the roots.

I'm mainly thinking of getting a system with a timer for when we'll be away over summer so I don't have to fret!

[SarzWix]

Greenhouse Sensation's 'Click and Drip' system gets good reviews and can work from mains or water butt?

[salilah]

The extravagent route is the Hozelock one - I have one timer for the GH raised bed with a fat tube and I think 6 or 7 little circular sprinklers - this looks after the tomatoes. I also have another timer with a fat tube with lots of thin tubes off, with ends or connections, for the trays on the staging (e.g. one dripper for every 2 chillis) and for the buckets on the floor (one dripper for each cucumber / melon) - this is more difficult to plan as if you put it on for too long each day the trays fill up and don't drain - so it is a matter of experimenting!! I've had to replace one timer after a year which was bad, but the remaining one and hte new one last year seem fine this year - it works for me as I'm not around in the week, so it keeps the plants going (more or less) for a few days at a time without me! I've also used the matting to act as a siphon from one tray (filling with water) to another tray with matting - not as effective but it can work...
HTH

[jonohanson]

I tried a few kits and settled on this one and have been very happy, lots of upgrades available for the system too.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gardena-irri.../dp/B004QXRCX0

[redser]

I think a water butt or IBC tank connected to a timer and soaker hose is the cheapest, simplest and most effective setup. Says he who has one

[Alison]

I think a water butt or IBC tank connected to a timer and soaker hose is the cheapest, simplest and most effective setup. Says he who has one

That's exactly what I have for my polytunnel. Didn't buy a kit but bought the relevant bits from Lidl and ebay. Worked out pretty cheap for the size of the tunnel and it's been in place for a few years now to more than done it's bit. I find by burying the soaker hose you minimise evaporation.