How to Connect Drip Irrigation to a Hose Bibb, Faucet or Spigot - and automate it!

Hey friends, Deanna here with Homestead & Chill. So it's a beautiful day. Aaron and I are about to get working outside here on putting in a new irrigation system to this corner that we just recently re-landscaped here. And I thought I'd bring you along and show you how to make a really simple, easy, DIY, and even automated drip irrigation system just going straight from a hose bib or faucet. And don't worry if irrigation, you know, seems a little intimidating. Please don't be because you do not need any kind of plumbing skills for this very simple system. And it can also easily be adapted to a variety of situations. So, you know, we're going to run it along here, kind of in a hedgerow or fence line, but it can be easily installed and adapted to, you know, raised garden bed areas, flower bed areas, or even to like patio container gardens. So I'll show you how to do some different variations of the system as well as we go. Got all my supplies over here. Really, I'll go through them one by one. We found most of them at our local hardware store, but I'll add links too so you can find similar items online if you're not able to source them locally. And then keep in mind, I'm going to do a written blog post too for this. If you would rather have, you know, written out instructions, check that out on Homestead and Chill. That'll follow along with the same process we'll show in the video today. And then the one other sort of disclaimer before we get started is a best practice that irrigation specialists recommend is to not run the half-inch black irrigation tubing much more than 100 feet, or it can start to lose pressure at the end of the system. However, we've definitely not followed that in the past, and we've run black irrigation tubing, I'd say probably 300 feet or so, kind of weaving around our whole old front yard at the old homestead, and didn't really have too many issues. So just letting you know though that if you are doing really, really extended runs, that's kind of the best practice to keep in mind. So what we have going on here is there's a hose lip right here, and this run up around this corner here is about 100 feet, and so that kind of works with that good, you know, best practice. And then we can also run a separate line from that hose bib going this way down the fence line, which we're going to irrigate and landscape in the future, so we kind of are able to split the system into two. If you are working with a hose bib that's, you know, say 40-50 feet away from the area that you want to irrigate, that's totally fine too. You can just run your black irrigation tubing from the faucet, you know, along a fence line, along the house, along a pathway, whatever works to kind of keep it out of your way. Leave it, you know, non-perforated until you get to the point where you want to start irrigating, and then that's when you would install your drip emitters along that tubing. And don't worry, we will show you that process too. So come on and we'll come take a closer look at the supplies that we have and how to actually hook this up right to your hose bib. Okay, so here are all the supplies that we're using today, but keep in mind not all of these are required, so some are just optional, and I'll go through them all right now one by one quickly, and then you'll also see them in action when we actually do the install. I'll demonstrate how we're going to use all of them.