Best Drip Irrigation System
Watering and feeding your plants in a greenhouse and a polytunnel can be extremely time consuming. If you have an allotment it can mean going down everyday or even twice a day to water the tomatoes and cucumbers in extreme hot weather. Here we will be showing you the best drip irrigation system for a polytunnel and a greenhouse to save watering everyday and feeding.
Allotment and Kitchen Garden Book
Are you starting an allotment or planning on growing your own fruit, vegetables, herbs, and flowers in a kitchen garden? If so we highly recommend the book Allotment Month By Month. This does exactly what it does on the cover to help you with what you should be doing in the allotment and kitchen garden each month. Below you can see the link for Amazon where you can purchase the book directly. This book is extremely popular with all allotment holders as you will read in the reviews:-
You can check out all the allotment and kitchen garden books we recommend here.
Items you will need for drip irrigation
Here we list all the items you will need to connecting your irrigation system up in your greenhouse and polytunnel. You may think it’s quite an expensive set up. Just remember that once you have purchased it you will not need to goto the plot everyday and it will last you years.
Waterbutt
This is to store your water in. You can obviously choose a bigger water butt if you prefer.
Irrigation tube
This is used for the water to be transferred from the water to the irrigation drippers.
Drippers
These drippers connect easily to the irrigation piping. Adjust the drippers to how much you want it to drip.
Water butt connector
This is what the irrigation pipe connects into.
Water butt connector to irrigation
You will need to unscrew your tap on the water butt and replace it with this piece.
Water irrigation stopper
Video of how to set up irrigation
In this video below we show you how to set up your irrigation in your greenhouse and polytunnel so that you don’t have to keep watering your plot all the time.
This method of setting up drip irrigation on the allotment works perfectly for me on my plot and saves me so much time watering and feeding my plants on the allotment. Your tomatoes and cucumbers can take the water in slowly to the roots rather than just soak the compost.
We hope you have found our system for the best drip irrigation system useful.