A wifi smart hose timer for raised bed drip irrigation usually costs 60 to 90 dollars more than a basic battery timer, and for a one- or two-bed vegetable garden, that premium rarely pays for itself. The wifi connection earns its place when you travel often during the growing season, run several beds with different … Read more
Rain Bird makes one primary hose-end timer for residential drip use, the 1ZEHTMR, and it is the timer Rain Bird recommends alongside both the GARDENKIT and their landscape drip kits. It runs a 7-day digital schedule with run times up to 6 hours per cycle, connects directly to a standard 3/4-inch garden hose thread, and … Read more
Orbit sells three different hose-end timers, and the one that usually ends up in a raised bed gardener’s cart is not always the one that fits the job. The single-outlet digital model handles most automated drip schedules cleanly and covers the majority of raised bed situations. The analog dial version looks similar on the shelf … Read more
Putting together a drip irrigation head assembly for a raised bed takes about five minutes with the right components laid out in front of you. It can take most of a season to understand what went wrong if those components go in the wrong order. This article covers the correct sequence from spigot to mainline, … Read more