Topic: drip irrigation system

[tartonterro]

needing some help - trying to construct my own drip irrigation system - now ive seen somewhere an attachment you can punch into any plastic container to use it as a water container - but cant seem to find it anywhere on the net - can anyone point me in the right direction

[davee52uk]

There was one a few days agon www.makezine.com Having said this when I tried to find it again, I couldn't.

Basically they made pinholes on pop (soda) plastic bottle and put a cotton rag inside to saok up some of the water and relieve the pressure. They then buried the bottle in the ground to trickle feed. Obviously they had to top up the bottle every few days.

[tartonterro]

was more thinking along the lines of a micro irrigation system - rather than mains or water butt run system - something run off a 5 gallon drum or something

[Hot House]

I got a micro system out of are local No Frills/Focus last year worked good for a while then the drippers started clogging upwitgh algea. It has a filter, the butts are filled from the GH roof and tap (as I'm still to put the gutting on the shed) so not sure if its mucky water or the slow drip rate that allows the algea to from, thinking of upgrading the pipe to half inch see if that makes a diff this yr.