{"id":497,"date":"2009-05-03T21:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T04:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/?p=497"},"modified":"2009-05-03T21:00:26","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T04:00:26","slug":"bonsai-vineyard-drip-irrigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/03\/bonsai-vineyard-drip-irrigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonsai Vineyard: Drip Irrigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right; margin:2em;\" ><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\namazon_ad_tag=\"dripirrigation-20\"; \namazon_ad_width=\"180\"; \namazon_ad_height=\"150\"; \namazon_color_border=\"265E15\"; \namazon_color_logo=\"FFFFFF\"; \namazon_color_link=\"265E15\"; \namazon_ad_logo=\"hide\"; \namazon_ad_border=\"hide\"; \namazon_ad_title=\"Washington Winemaker's Drip Irrigation Store\"; \/\/--><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/s\/asw.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>With ten grape vines in pots, and another ten fruit trees, I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of hand watering. It&#8217;s become quite a chore, so I&#8217;ve decided to put in a drip irrigation system. This will have water coming from a garden hose, through a pressure reducing fitting, into a feeder bottle so that I can fertilize, through a half-inch hose, and out of quarter-inch drip lines that run to each pot. Instead of a seemingly endless cycle of fill the watering can &#8211; water the vines\/trees, I would just be able to turn on the water and go read a book. With a timer, I might not even have to turn the water on and off.<\/p>\n<p>I had an abstract idea of what a drip system was and how it worked. What I needed was some hands on knowledge &#8211; what were the various components of a drip system? what did they do? how did they fit together? For a crash course in Drip Irrigation 101, I went to three hardware stores. I struck gold at Lowes with a clerk who had been a plumber and installed many a drip system. Now I have most of the equipment I need and a much better idea of how to put that equipment to use.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<caption>\n<h3>Basic equipment for a drip irrigation system<\/h3>\n<\/caption>\n<li>half-inch tubing &#8211; delivers low pressure water to the drip system<\/li>\n<li>quarter-inch tubing &#8211; delivers water to an individual vine or tree<\/li>\n<li>25 PSI Pressure Regulator &#8211; keeps pressure from overwhelming the system<\/li>\n<li>3\/4&#8243; hose to 1\/2&#8243; tubing adapter &#8211; connects the system to a garden hose or tap<\/li>\n<li>quarter-inch double barbed connectors &#8211; connects quarter inch tubing to the half inch tubing<\/li>\n<li>50 quarter-inch hole plugs &#8211; plugs holes in the half inch tubing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<caption>\n<h3>Other equipment that might be needed<\/h3>\n<\/caption>\n<li>anti siphon device &#8211; prevents back flow from the drip system to the water supply<\/li>\n<li>filter &#8211; keeps dirt from clogging the drip system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can buy this equipment at a garden center as a kit or as separate pieces. 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