In my plan i have trees which located in a shrubs area..
Usualy am using bubblers for the all kinds of trees..
and for narrow and small shrubs and ground covers, am using an area for dripline..
am seperating the irrigation systems because as i understood that its better not to put different irriagation equipments on one valve..
but with this layout i have duplicate in the laterals because am using laterals for the trees and others for the dripline areas..
is there anyother way more effective to irrigate mixed planted areas?
Usualy am using bubblers for the all kinds of trees..
and for narrow and small shrubs and ground covers, am using an area for dripline..
am seperating the irrigation systems because as i understood that its better not to put different irriagation equipments on one valve..
but with this layout i have duplicate in the laterals because am using laterals for the trees and others for the dripline areas..
is there anyother way more effective to irrigate mixed planted areas?
Accepted Answer
we often have bubblers on trees and shrub beds on drip line, however we often put them on two separate valves. one way you could do what you are asking would be to use bubbles that are designed to work on a drip system, they provide extra water to your trees and you can still have the drip line, but you would need to use the drip bubbler so that you can manage the water flow and the lower pressure needed by the dripline.
For a second alternate you could also use a series of emitters rather than the bubbler and ring those around the tree allowing you to add as much or as little water to the trees by increasing the size of the emitter or the number of emitters per tree.
for a final alternate you could do rings of drip line around your trees and tie that into the same drip valve, because there are rings of dripline a larger number of emitters are close to your tree giving it additional water
see attached images...
just some thoughts.
Bob
For a second alternate you could also use a series of emitters rather than the bubbler and ring those around the tree allowing you to add as much or as little water to the trees by increasing the size of the emitter or the number of emitters per tree.
for a final alternate you could do rings of drip line around your trees and tie that into the same drip valve, because there are rings of dripline a larger number of emitters are close to your tree giving it additional water
see attached images...
just some thoughts.
Bob
Accepted Answer
we often have bubblers on trees and shrub beds on drip line, however we often put them on two separate valves. one way you could do what you are asking would be to use bubbles that are designed to work on a drip system, they provide extra water to your trees and you can still have the drip line, but you would need to use the drip bubbler so that you can manage the water flow and the lower pressure needed by the dripline.
For a second alternate you could also use a series of emitters rather than the bubbler and ring those around the tree allowing you to add as much or as little water to the trees by increasing the size of the emitter or the number of emitters per tree.
for a final alternate you could do rings of drip line around your trees and tie that into the same drip valve, because there are rings of dripline a larger number of emitters are close to your tree giving it additional water
see attached images...
just some thoughts.
Bob
For a second alternate you could also use a series of emitters rather than the bubbler and ring those around the tree allowing you to add as much or as little water to the trees by increasing the size of the emitter or the number of emitters per tree.
for a final alternate you could do rings of drip line around your trees and tie that into the same drip valve, because there are rings of dripline a larger number of emitters are close to your tree giving it additional water
see attached images...
just some thoughts.
Bob
Nibal,
This is a great Hot Tip which may help you right now. Good luck and mix a little (or lot) of fun into it.
https://www.landfx.com/index.php/news/power-tips/item/2000-tree-ring-irrigation.html
Seaweed
This is a great Hot Tip which may help you right now. Good luck and mix a little (or lot) of fun into it.
https://www.landfx.com/index.php/news/power-tips/item/2000-tree-ring-irrigation.html
Seaweed
BTW. It's our practice to always place tree watering systems (blubbers, emitters or drip tubing) on a valve SEPARATE from the groundcover or shrubs. As the plants mature, the water requirement will vary greatly. Right? You'll want to allow the maintenance team to have flexibility in controller scheduling to meet the needs of maturing landscape.
One of the main reasons we put trees on a separate valve and Palms on another separate valve is that during the recent drought there were water agencies that would allow trees and palms to be watered (due to their monetary and aesthetic value) but shrubs and turf vastly restricted, without the trees and palms on separate valves these trees would loose all water, the funny part is that the trees are probably better equip with a deeper (and larger) root system to survive the drought...
Just food for thought!
Just food for thought!
as long as you don't have too many valves for your controller or if you only have one or two palms the added flexibility is often appreciated by the end user of the landscape.
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