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Saw a huge difference in my garden after switching to drip irrigation
I used to just spray everything with a hose every morning. After 2 weeks of drip lines from a $30 kit at Home Depot, my tomatoes in Portland actually grew twice as big. The soil stayed wet way longer and I didn't get fungus on the leaves. Has anyone else noticed a big change from something as simple as watering?
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carter.casey6d ago
Drip irrigation is overrated if you ask me. I tried a similar setup last summer in my raised beds and the emitters kept clogging from our hard water, plus the lines shifted around every time I pulled a weed. My tomatoes actually did better when I just watered deep with a regular hose every few days. All that fancy plastic tubing just made a mess and cost me more time fiddling with it than it saved. What kind of soil are you working with?
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lunag306d ago
Oh totally feel you @carter.casey, hard water is a nightmare for those tiny emitters. My buddy put in a cheap inline filter before his drip system and it helped a ton with clogging. Portland's water isn't too bad but I still swap the filter every few months to keep things flowing right.
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