Eric Ew
New Member
Hi all,
I am new in this forum. I love gardening, mostly growing vegetables and fruit trees.
I am planning to implement an irrigation system in my garden, the picture below shows the layout. The garden landscape is complex, the top part is a flat landscape, where the bottom part is a slope (going down hill). The point of connection (POC) supplies water using 20mm HDPE polyethelyn pipe. I plan to use 25mm HDPE polyethelyn pipe hooking up to the POC as mainline (pink color line) to carry water up to approximately 45 feet distance away. Then i will be using 16mm LDPE polyethelyn tube to connect micro sprinklers to water the plants. For bottom part of the picture, it shows the tiny red lines that tapped from 16mm LDPE poly tube is to use 7mm micro tubing to create a loop with multiple micro sprinklers to water fruit tree.
Currently i am using 16mm LDPE poly tube + 7mm micro tubing with micro sprinklers for the entire garden (without creating looping back to mainline), however i see low pressure at the slope (bottom part of the layout), that's the reason why i am eagerly want to increase the mainline size and hope for significant improvement in terms of water pressure and flow rate.
Anyone here can help to comment if the irrigation layout look OK?
Flow rate at POC is roughly 7 GPM
Water pressure at the POC is roughly 45psi.
Thanks in advanced!
I am new in this forum. I love gardening, mostly growing vegetables and fruit trees.
I am planning to implement an irrigation system in my garden, the picture below shows the layout. The garden landscape is complex, the top part is a flat landscape, where the bottom part is a slope (going down hill). The point of connection (POC) supplies water using 20mm HDPE polyethelyn pipe. I plan to use 25mm HDPE polyethelyn pipe hooking up to the POC as mainline (pink color line) to carry water up to approximately 45 feet distance away. Then i will be using 16mm LDPE polyethelyn tube to connect micro sprinklers to water the plants. For bottom part of the picture, it shows the tiny red lines that tapped from 16mm LDPE poly tube is to use 7mm micro tubing to create a loop with multiple micro sprinklers to water fruit tree.
Currently i am using 16mm LDPE poly tube + 7mm micro tubing with micro sprinklers for the entire garden (without creating looping back to mainline), however i see low pressure at the slope (bottom part of the layout), that's the reason why i am eagerly want to increase the mainline size and hope for significant improvement in terms of water pressure and flow rate.
Anyone here can help to comment if the irrigation layout look OK?
Flow rate at POC is roughly 7 GPM
Water pressure at the POC is roughly 45psi.
Thanks in advanced!