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What is the Difference Between Drip Irrigation and Traditional Sprinklers?

4/22/2021

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Why is Irrigation Important?

​Irrigation systems keep your landscaping hydrated automatically to save you the brainpower of remembering to do it yourself during a hot month. It helps your plants to maintain their health by applying the correct amount of water at the correct time. If you have too much water, then your yard will be bogged down, your plant’s roots rot, and fungi start to proliferate. If you have too little water, then everything starts to die. A good irrigation system will filter out some of the harsh chemicals that you can find in your soil, such as salts, toxins, or excess minerals. Dead grass, muddy shoes, and dried-out landscape are some of the things that I personally hate seeing when trying to enter my home after a long day. A correctly designed irrigation system will alleviate some of these issues. Also, an irrigation system saves me the trouble of having to do all the work myself.

Drip Irrigation 

Drip irrigation is more costly, but it uses less water. Drip irrigation directly deposits the water into your landscape, garden, or flower beds. Since it directly deposits, there will not be as much excess water to flood your yard and to allow your mulch, fertilizer, or soil to float away. Drip irrigation might also be better if your yard retains a lot of water. 
Reoccurring problems that come with drip irrigation are clogged pipes, clogged emitters, and algae build-up. Also in the warmer seasons, the pipes might break beacause of the amount of heat. Clogged pipes can be fixed by running the irrigation system for about an hour after putting in a solution. This will help break down anything blocking the pipes. You can clean the emitters with wire or soaking them in vinegar. If there is an algae build-up then you can fix it with chlorine. 

Traditional Irrigation 

Traditional irrigation is less costly to install, but it uses more water than drip irrigation does to hydrate your landscape. To some people it is also more pleasing to look at than drip irrigation.
​Common traditional sprinkler problems include broken heads, pipes, and timer boxes. To fix a broken pipe all you need to do is find the leak, take our the broken pipe, and then put a coupling pipe in the place of the absent pipe. You could just replace a sprinkler head if it is broken. Lastly, to fix a timer box is broken make sure that the fuses are okay. You can replace the fuses but you could also replace the timer box itself. 

Irrigation Timing 

A great time for your irrigation system to run is in the morning. After running in the morning, the excess water will be evaporated throughout the day. If the excess water is gone than you will not have to worry about over watering your yard. If you overwater your yard you will also encounter problems such as fungus or dead grass. 

Irrigation is a wonderful invention that is used to help water your landscape whenever you need it. With a properly irrigated landscape you will have a wonderful yard and wonderful area for activities. 
7 Comments
Afton Jackson link
4/22/2021 08:04:01 pm

I really like how you talked about the ways drip irrigation systems can manage water better and be much less wasteful. While I want a luscious and healthy lawn for myself, I wouldn't want to waste water while doing so, so a system like this can really work for me. Once I find a home service that offers irrigation systems, I'll make sure I ask for something like this.

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Netafimindia link
7/22/2021 10:46:18 pm

There are many difference between drip irrigation and traditional sprinkler. One of the main difference is Drip irrigation is more costly But traditional sprinkler uses more water than drip irrigation. To get more details visit us https://www.netafimindia.com/

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Zachary Tomlinson link
1/17/2022 08:58:44 am

It's interesting to learn that an irrigation system can give your plants the water they need to grow healthy. My friend wants to start a flower garden that can wow his in-laws when they visit. Perhaps he should try finding an irrigation expert that can work this out on his garden.

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Michelle link
2/23/2022 11:33:21 pm

Thanks for sharing this useful information! Hope that you will continue with the kind of stuff you are doing.

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Millie Hue link
5/6/2023 09:24:44 am

It's great to know that a broken sprinkler head can be replaced when needed. I guess we need to expect that we will pay for the head when we get sprinkler repair services from experts tomorrow. Also, we want to include an inspection when we get their help, since I am not sure if there is a leak that is affecting the growth of the grass on our lawn.

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2/14/2025 05:32:27 am

I hadn’t considered it that way, but now that you mention it, it makes perfect sense.

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