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
A pressure regulator is one of those components that looks optional until a fitting blows off a barbed connector at 60 PSI and lands in the tomatoes. US residential water pressure typically runs between 40 and 80 PSI, and most drip emitters are designed to operate between 15 and 30 PSI. That gap is why … Read more
A raised bed drip system has fewer moving parts than most people expect, but the assembly order at the faucet matters more than the component list. Get the order wrong and the pressure regulator sits under full static line pressure every time the system is off, which wears it out faster than it should and … Read more