Green Mountain Landscape, "Inviting nature home"

I Love Drip Irrigation and so will you, how can you not enjoy a product that improves the vitality of your landscape plants while giving you precious time to actually enjoy your summer. Instead of watering that weeping Hydrangea, you can be reading your favorite book or cat napping in the hammock, while your drip system is pumping 1/2 gallon of water per HOUR directly to the roots -no evaporation.

Drip is easy to install, easy to fix and relatively inexpensive. 200' of Drip line, various emmitters and a battery operated timer averages $400 installed. This includes a check valve, pressure reducer, filter, 1/2" mainline tubing, 1/4" feeder lines and emmitters. The flexible plastic tubing can be tucked under your mulch and generally is set to run for 60 - 90 minutes in the early morning. Your most difficult task is just to make sure that each plant continues to receive the water needed as time goes by. Rarely something goes wrong but it would fall under 3 catagories if it did: 1, a rodent chewed an exposed emmitter. 2, an emmitter became clogged and was unable to purge itself. 3, a line/emmitter got damaged by digging or raking and not realizing the drip was there.

Unlike full pressure lawn irrigation with rotators spraying water everywhere from trenched PVC, the majority of drip is concealed under the mulch, yet very accessable, so repairs are easy - look for the plant not doing well and dig into the soil next to it after running the drip for an hour. If the soil is dry find the drip emmitter next to the plant and look for damage and correct it. Emitters are generally under $1 each so no costly service calls are required.

Come fall you just bring the timer assembly inside and "blow-out" the water from the lines.