Gravity feed drip irrigation systems collect rain water in a rain barrel, garbage can, or bucket. Learn how to save water & money & go green when watering plants.

Learn how one customer saved on their drip irrigation project in two ways. They saved hundreds on the initial purchase of irrigation supplies & now save every month on their water bill after converting to drip.

The USDA is providing financial assistance to California farmers who convert to drip irrigation. They have allocated 10 million dollars to farmers in Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, & Tulare counties. Sign-ups end April 9, 2010.

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In this post we discuss how to add a quick drip irrigation system to an existing sprinkler system to water a short run of plants. You can easily connect to a 1/2″ threaded riser and be finished in about an hour.

If you want the flexibility to change your drip system design or put away your drip lines for winter, try our Direct-Loc drip fittings. Also known as “Easy Loc”, “Perma Loc”, “Spin-Loc”, or “Power-Loc”, they twist onto main line drip tubing and are reusable. We are happy to help you compare our prices with the competition. We’ll even link to their website to make it easy. As of this writing, here is a price comparison on a few of our Direct-Loc fittings vs. Drip Works, The Drip Store, and Drip Depot.

Paul Polack’s solution to poverty is not handouts. He prefers to create entrepreneurs and develop sustainable markets so that communities can pull themselves out of poverty. His organization, International Development Enterprises (IDE), has designed human-powered treadle water pumps and inexpensive drip irrigation systems that help small farmers keep more of their profits, invest in themselves, [...]

Three simple ways to water potted plants in a greenhouse with drip irrigation.

Irrigation Direct recommends planning your watering schedule and writing it down on a Water Scheduling Form before you do any actual programming of your controller (timer). There are so many variables (soil type, sprinklers, drip systems, wind, sunny areas, shady areas, slopes, etc.) that it is impossible for us to give you an exact formula [...]