I have a sad sad little raised bed garden. Yes, its sad, but it's MINE and I love it!
I was sad because this spring I planted everything too soon. I jumped the gun. I was just so eager to enjoy the fresh warm juicy tomatos! I planted at the end of March. I thought I was safe. Then WHAM-O we had two nights of nearly 20 degrees! Yeah, that was the end of those tomato plants!
What is a girl suppose to do? DUH! Replant! So, I did. Everything looked like crap after a few weeks.
I had a timer set up to water everything twice a day, but it was all dying!
I found out about this drip irrigation kit. It is under $15 on Amazon. Something had to be done to safe my crops! So I ordered it. I had high hopes.
I was so excited when the package arrived two days later! I tore it open like a little kid on Christmas morning. I ran out to install it right then! I even forgot that I was cooking dinner, oops! We ended up with sandwiches that night. But it was SO worth it!
Installing the entire thing took about 25 minutes. It was really easy and I was so excited to find that I had NO leaks!
My only complaint is that I didn't know that I should have spaced the drippers with fewer at the beginning. I found that by spacing everything evenly the water pressure wasn't able to force much to the drippers at the end. To remedy this I closed off a couple near the beginning to provide more push for the drippers at the end.
Overall, I am thrilled! Everything in my garden is doing great! What more could I ask?
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