Greenhouse irrigation

The greenhouse in the country. We make a watering system.

Occasionally some cottage or smallholding complete without a small teplichke. Such teplichku you can buy ready-made, built to order, or make your own. Many variants have glass greenhouses and even of glass, polycarbonate, and the film, metal or wood. Everything is fine. With one exception: rare in a greenhouse can be seen system of irrigation, and we do not speak about automation.
For those who want to bring their teplichku to perfection and to equip it with a modern system of drip irrigation and read this article.
We will not be seen in it all known simple solutions, which are based on thin-walled drip tapes. We want to offer you a new, original solutions. Since Teplička is not built for one season and for many years, the irrigation system should also be in a teplichke designed to work within a few years. It is therefore necessary to use thick-walled tube drip emitter or external.

TUBE.

Since chalet greenhouses usually are small, we want to offer you to use a drip tube or tubes for external droppers diameter of 8 millimeters. This diameter is sufficient for drip lines up to 25 meters long. Typically, the length of summer greenhouses is 6-8 meters, but even if it is twenty meters greenhouse, all the same tube diameter of 8 mm. ensure the normal operation of such a system.

In addition to dropping or 8-mm connecting pipe, for you require special fittings and something else to you can easily mount a watering system in your greenhouse. In the photo above, you see eight millimeter dropping tube in coils of 25 meters and the connecting pipe in the bay containing 100 meters.
To connect external droppers with tips used another type of tube diameter of 3/5 mm.

FITTING.

To work with a micro irrigation (let's call it so), there is a whole set of mikrofitingov that includes barbed plungers corners troynichki, crosses, plugs. All this is well-aligned with mikrofitingami applied for minisprinklerov. These fittings have a slight taper, easily inserted into each other and are held securely at pressures up to 3 atmospheres.
There is also a fitting transition to 1/2 and 3/4 inch. If it is necessary to reduce the pressure in the system, it is possible to use a special gear, reducing the pressure to 1.4 atm or 2.0. There are also minikrany antidrenazhnye and valves.
To water with a dropper can be fed directly to the roots of plants, two types of tips are used: a conventional labyrinth. If connected to a drip a few tips, the splitters used for two or four directions and tips with the maze. If the drip is attached to the tip 1, then use the tip of the maze without.

EXTERIOR DROPPER

How to deal with a dropping tube I think no need to explain. And here is how to use the dropper in the villa outside the greenhouse will have a little talk. Exterior droppers that we can use are divided into 3 types: a dropper with the release of a splitter and a few tips, drip with the release of their brush attachment 1 for a tip and mikrokapelnitsy mounted in the tip of the tube. See photos:

To connect to the fittings and drippers to the water supply system, used pipe diameter 4/7 mm. A tip for connection to the hub or directly to an IV tube 3/5 mm.
Mikrokapelnitsa "droplet" is inserted directly into the tube diameter of 4/7 mm.

In our pictures, for compactness depicted short lengths of tubes. In practice, the length of these tubes can be tens of centimeters. Just cut off the tube the correct length, so that the water supplied directly to the plant roots.

On the left photo shows the three types of droppers complete with tubes.

NOTE : To ease the work of the assembly, before pulling on a drip tube or fitting, heat it in hot water. This will facilitate, simplify and speed up work. Well, in addition, parts of your irrigation system will remain safe and intact!

MOUNT systems with external dropper

To mark the beginning of the pipe layout and droppers in your greenhouse. Make a drawing, write on it size, determine where you will be supplied with water, how many rows of tubes and droppers in the series will be in your greenhouse. Determine what additional equipment will be placed in a greenhouse: filter equipment, fertigation system. Where it will be located, so that the installation can be performed quickly and accurately. CAUTION : the presence of the filter in the irrigation system MUST. No filter your irrigation system has been operating for a long time and you have to replace it.

Once you make the irrigation system to the size of the scheme, you can prepare tube, cutting them off in size and connecting them to each other fittings. The assembly can be done partly at home, and finally - on the site in your teplichke.

Once again draw your attention to the fact that the photo shows only the principle of the build irrigation systems, and the length of the tube, you must determine independently taking into account the specific conditions of growing plants in your greenhouse, based on the number of plants and the distances (scheme) landing.

CONNECTING TO THE POWER OF WATER

As you can see, a watering system in your teplichke easy to mount. Now you need to connect it to the water.

To connect the water, we use a special adapter fitting having an outlet thread 3/4 inch. This adapter can be connected to a pipe, the water supply or directly to the filter or solenoid crane automation system.

NOTE : This article described in the irrigation system is designed to operate at a pressure of water in the range of 1-3 atmosphere. The optimum pressure of 2 atm. When water pressure in the system is below 0.8 atm. drip stop working.

Nevertheless, it may be a higher pressure in your plumbing. In this case, the water pressure should be reduced. To reduce water pressure, or rather to limit the maximum pressure are special gears, reducing the pressure to 1.4 or up to 2.0 atmospheres.
This reducer can be easily mounted in the irrigation system.

If you want to use in your greenhouse is not only drip irrigation, and also such as sprinkler, you can install additional troynichek- splitter mikrokran and direct the water to the sprinklers for example. You can set and two crane, allowing to manually open water or drip or sprinkler. But keep in mind that in such mikrokrany can skip not a lot of water, so this option is suitable for small greenhouses.

For more information, see the following articles:

  Irrigation systems for home and office.  Outside dropper. Small cock.
   
  

Proposed irrigation system for the country and personal greenhouses especially for creative people who want and like to experiment a little bit and make the optimal configuration of the irrigation system in your greenhouse.
And finally, a little advice. When buying accessories for this irrigation system, buy accessories with a small margin. Experience has shown that often want to expand the system, improve, improve. And well, when the necessary parts are always at hand!