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South of Buffalo

Ok I am sick of soaker hoses. The set up I have lets the majority of water out in the 1st 10 feet and it tapers off from there. I am looking at t tape/drip tube/emitters from dripworks and the irrigation direct web site.dripworks told me that the ground basically must be level for t tape to work. Thats a problem with one of my plants as its mounded over for the 1st 3 feet of vine so running perpendicular to teh main is out, i thought about runing parellel thereby avoiding teh hump. Then I came across several other comments here on BP about emitters and dripline. What will compensate the best for not perfectely level ground. thanks jeff

6/6/2011 3:03:28 PM

Hinckley MN

There are pressure compensating emmitters in some drip tape. those are the ones you need for non-level sites. I grow 16,000 strawberries, 1800 raspberries/ blackberries, and 800 blueberries in containers. each container gets an individual emitter on 1/4 inch feeder line conected to 1/2 inch PE lines. I get most of mine from Irrigation Direct, although I have purchaesd from A.M. Lenard and Farmtek as well. but I bought soaker hose for my pumpkins.

6/7/2011 7:33:33 AM

50 Acres

feed soaker hose from both ends works 4 me

6/7/2011 6:59:34 PM