{"id":17831,"date":"2023-07-14T06:58:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T13:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/?p=17831"},"modified":"2023-07-14T07:01:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T14:01:59","slug":"kinking-drip-irrigation-tubes-to-save-time-and-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/kinking-drip-irrigation-tubes-to-save-time-and-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinking drip irrigation tubes to save time and water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I love the efficiency of drip irrigation, but its inflexibility can be frustrating. Learning to kink my drip irrigation tubes in various ways has, however, relieved some of this frustration and added versatility into my system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me explain and illustrate with two examples in my yard today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vegetables: carrots<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This bed of carrots was ready to be harvested, but I didn\u2019t want to harvest them all at once. I only wanted to harvest around a dozen carrots at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/bed-of-carrots.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/bed-of-carrots.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17823\" width=\"445\" height=\"443\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The bed is watered with a drip irrigation tube. If I harvest a section and continue to water the remaining carrots, I\u2019ll be wasting water on the harvested section, as the drips would then go into rootless dirt. How to avoid this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do have a shut-off valve for the line on this bed so I could turn it off and switch to handwatering the remaining carrots, but that is time consuming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather, what I did was harvest a section at the far end of the bed first and then shorten the drip tube by kinking it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/carrot-bed-part-harvested.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/carrot-bed-part-harvested.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17822\" width=\"440\" height=\"470\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">End section harvested.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/kinked-tube-carrots.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/kinked-tube-carrots.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17824\" width=\"548\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/kinked-tube-carrots.jpg 548w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/kinked-tube-carrots-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 548px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Drip tube kinked right after remaining carrots.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I used a segment of half-inch drip tubing to slide over the kink and hold it in place. This stops the water flow at the kink, and now I can continue to use the same drip irrigation on the remaining carrots. As I harvest more I can slide the half-inch tubing off and rekink wherever necessary. This kinking does not damage the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fruit trees: mango<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a second use of kinking drip tubing to save time and water. I planted this mango in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/baby-mango-tree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/baby-mango-tree.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17830\" width=\"600\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/baby-mango-tree.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/baby-mango-tree-480x342.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 600px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I installed a drip irrigation line on it with three emitters spaced six inches apart. I estimated that this would apply sufficient water until the tree doubles in size, which might happen by the end of the year if I\u2019m lucky. At that point, I could add another section of tubing with more emitters, but what I did instead is easier:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/kinked-drip-tube-mango.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/kinked-drip-tube-mango.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17829\" width=\"567\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/kinked-drip-tube-mango.jpg 567w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/kinked-drip-tube-mango-480x371.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 567px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I installed the drip irrigation line at a length that included six emitters (twice as many as necessary at planting time), and then I kinked the line after three emitters. Once the tree is big enough to need more water, I will unkink the line and rekink it behind the fourth or fifth emitter. No cutting or tools or additional parts required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This has become my routine way of installing drip irrigation on newly planted fruit trees over the past few years, and it has worked out well as the trees have gained in size and needed more water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that it works just as well when using half-inch tubing. If kinking a half-inch tube, I use a zip tie or nursery tape rather than a figure eight to hold the kink because they are easier to slide off than figure eights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/zip-tie-kinked-drip-tube.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/zip-tie-kinked-drip-tube.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17828\" width=\"431\" height=\"437\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Zip tie holding kink in half-inch drip tube.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When using button emitters rather than tubing with inline emitters, I prefer to include extra tube at planting time but waiting to add extra button emitters until the tree has grown big enough to need them. For example, here is a young avocado being watered with button emitters on a half-inch tube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/button-emitter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/button-emitter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17826\" width=\"563\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/button-emitter.jpg 563w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/button-emitter-480x359.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 563px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And here you can see the extra tube I have included at planting time so that as the tree grows, I can punch in new emitters as necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/rootstock-avocado-with-extra-drip-tubing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/rootstock-avocado-with-extra-drip-tubing.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17825\" width=\"511\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/rootstock-avocado-with-extra-drip-tubing.jpg 511w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/rootstock-avocado-with-extra-drip-tubing-480x443.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 511px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you have other ways of making drip irrigation on vegetables and fruit trees more flexible while retaining efficiency? Please share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here are some more posts on drip irrigation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/installing-drip-irrigation-for-a-vegetable-garden\/\">Installing drip irrigation for a vegetable garden<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/how-long-to-run-drip-irrigation-on-vegetables\/\">How long to run drip irrigation on vegetables<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/watering-fruit-trees-with-drip-irrigation\/\">Watering fruit trees with drip irrigation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/drip-irrigation-troubleshooting-guide\/\">Drip and micro-sprinkler irrigation troubleshooting guide<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/the-easiest-automatic-irrigation\/\">The easiest automatic irrigation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>All of my Yard Posts are listed\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/list-of-yard-posts\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your support keeps my posts coming and the ads away. 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