If you consider drip irrigation to be suitable as your watering method for your entire garden plants and vegetations, then you can install it on your own. Firstly, get polyethylene hose with a view to make the main lines, and then join the lines using the hose connectors. In agriculture, water is almost everything because nothing can live without it. And for keeping and sustaining the vegetations and plants to grow steadily, right kind of water supply or irrigation method need to be adopted. There are varieties of irrigation systems for effective watering task.

Always prefer those irrigation systems which make the use of water as little as possible. Not because water is precious and one can not get it wasted, but because only the proper amount of water distribution benefits your plantation. Too much water uptake can harm them and too little watering also can bring malnutrition.

Generally, there is flood irrigation which is more common, and out-of-date irrigation method that involves irregular irrigation supply. On the other hand, the latest irrigation systems and techniques are developed to make watering task easy and efficient. Some of them for your, are sprinkler systems and drip irrigation systems which are most recommended.

With sprinkler systems, you can water your plants and garden vegetation from the top through hose. But this sprinkling method has some disadvantages. By spraying water, some amount of water gets evaporated in the air. Moreover, the water being sprayed wets the soil and does not necessarily go to the root level.

Drip irrigation system, compared to sprinklers is more beneficial. The method of drip irrigation involves uniform watering which directly goes to the root level without making water evaporated in the air and also maintains the moisture level in the soil which is quite important for the growth of the garden plants and other vegetations.

Do you know when and how drip irrigation system or technique came into being which has now became so popular? Previously, the majority of people used clay pots as the means of watering system. They made little holes in the pots in order to get water dripped slowly and little by little on the plants.

It was in 1866 in Afghanistan, where some researchers experimented with clay pipes and made irrigation and drainage systems. Later on this irrigation method took fine shape and drip irrigation method was developed.


But the fine and perfect concept of drip irrigation method was developed in 1959 by Simcha Blass in Israel. With Kibbutz Hatzerim, very first time he made surface drip irrigation emitters.

Drip irrigation is sometimes called micro or trickle irrigation. Some misspell it as drip irragation. This irrigation system is made of emitters, pipes, and tubing. It can be made on the surface level or beneath the soil. There are several drip irrigation supplies, for instance; soaker hose, drip emitters, hose connectors, tubing and pipes, pressure regulator, filter, valve, timers, etc. available in the market for making the system.

If you consider drip irrigation to be suitable as your watering method for your entire garden plants and vegetations, then you can install it on your own. Firstly, get polyethylene hose with a view to make the main lines, and then join the lines using the hose connectors.

A pressure regulator needs to be installed to give your water supply adequate force. A filter also has to be installed to prevent the remnants that may cause hindrance to the water force. And for water distribution to your targeted plants, emitters should be installed. Then, if you wish to make your system easily controllable and to make your water supply stop or run, install a timer properly.

Surface level installation of drip irrigation system is more preferred because, whenever you wish to make your garden expand or make bigger, then you can very easily move your hoses around your garden plants to water them conveniently.

Therefore, which irrigation method you use depends on the watering requirements of your plant types. Make wise choice of the watering method and make your garden healthy and ever green!