We create automatic watering with our own hands

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

Anything that grows on your site and deserves to grow there needs regular watering. But often we are controlled by circumstances that we cannot overcome. Someone's car broke down, someone fell ill, someone urgently needed to be in another place. No rain is in the forecast for at least another week. In such cases, gardeners and gardeners are helped out by automatic irrigation systems. Any irrigation system is an engineering structure. It is understood that they should only be handled by professionals. However, it just seems incredibly complicated. And what to wish if the budget allocated for the gardening plot is not enough to hire professionals? If you apply competent design and correct installation, it is quite possible to organize automatic watering with your own hands.

It is necessary to determine the volume of water needed in a particular area. It should be noted that a vegetable garden, an orchard and a green lawn have different water needs. The larger the irrigated area, the larger the pipe diameter must be to provide the required throughput. Now you need to carefully plan everything. For thisdraw up a schematic plan of your site and designate irrigation zones on it. Now remember how to work with the compass - it will help you outline the sectors that the sprinklers will cover.

Created do-it-yourself automatic watering will provide all plants with water using two types of sprinklers: static (work best in areas less than 10 m) and rotary, with a variable irrigation radius. Arrange sprinklers on the site plan in this way: first - those that will be located in the corners of the irrigation zone, then - on their borders, last - the central ones (if necessary). The distance between the sprinkler heads should be equal to their radius of action (pay attention to this and do not confuse with the diameter!): This will ensure uniform irrigation.

The next step is to determine the number of irrigation zones. This means that the sprinklers in each zone will only be controlled by one valve at a time. There is a lot of reference data in the specialized literature that will help you determine how optimally do-it-yourself automatic watering will work, water consumption and the number of sprinklers, the diameter of the supply pipes and pressure losses. The best result is achieved by playing with the diameter of the pipes and the number of sprinklers, but do not discount the ability to adjust the flow of solenoid valves.

If the desired result does not appear at all, you may have combined both types of devices with different intensities into one zone glaze. Rotarysprinklers water 2-3 times longer than static ones.

Irrigation equipment is not limited to the above units. An important role in the system is assigned to the controller - a programmable mini-computer that takes into account a number of different factors in the formula for optimal irrigation, up to the data of its own weather station. Of course, such a controller is not very cheap, but on the other hand, water consumption can be reduced from 1/5 of the volume to 1/2! you a full-bodied crop, a well-groomed suburban area and reduced water consumption for irrigation.