Drip Irrigation

Welcome to Drip Depot, your best source for drip irrigation supplies on the internet. We sell quality irrigation equipment for home, garden, agriculture, contractors and government. Within our store you'll find 1,000's of items to make life simple for beginners and a huge assortment of parts and supplies. We also carry a wide variety of drip irrigation kits that make watering your plants or garden quick and easy.

If you are new to drip irrigation there are many online resources to help get you going such as our tutorials page and our tips and tricks page. We also have many videos to help you get started and can help you understand how everything fits together. Just remember that installing a drip irrigation system is not hard. All you need is the right supplies and a little time, patience and information. Drip Depot is here to help you Drip-It-Yourself so you can save time and money by installing your own system.

Drip Irrigation Kits - A good place to start for beginners.

You might be asking yourself "How do I know what kit to choose?". Well, you're not alone. Just remember this ... TIMTOWTDI - (There Is More Than One Way To Do It). There is no magic formula for choosing the right kit simply because there may be many "right" kits. There are only a few things that you need to know (or have a good estimate) about in order to narrow your choices.

Ask yourself these questions:

How much tubing do I need?
What type of area(s) do I intend to water?
Do I want to automate my drip system?

Now, lets answer those questions.

How much tubing do I need?

You can figure this out by simply measuring (or making a good guess) about how far the last plant is from the water supply. For example, start from the water faucet where you intend to hook up your drip irrigation system. Then, imagine the path you will lay out tubing. Measure or guess this distance, taking into account curves, bends and Tee's then add 10% just to be safe. That's how much tubing you are going to need.

What type of area(s) do I intend to water?

Our drip irrigation kits are sorted and organized by the type of irrigation they are intended to perform. All of our kits can "cross over" to other applications but we try to imagine the specific requirements for each type of application and build our irrigation kits accordingly. Just choose the kit type that most closely matches your requirements and compare the items in the kit (located on each kit page in a tab called "parts list") and choose the irrigation kit that most closely matches your needs. If none of our kits will do what you need then you have two options.

Choose a kit that is close to what you want and buy some extra irrigation parts along with it.
Build your own kit from scratch using one of our kits a template. You can do this by clicking the "build your own" link that is located on each kit page.

Do I want to automate my drip system?

This is easy. If you want to automate your drip system, then just pick a hose end timer that fits your needs.

Additional Resources

Drip Irrigation Design Guidelines - The web's mother lode of free irrigation information.
Healthy Landscapes using Drip Irrigation - Some great information at the URI Cooperative Extension Education Center's Botanical Gardens.
introduction to drip irrigation - from west virginia university.
Agricultural Guide has a really nice web site that offers a wealth of drip irrigation related information as well as general agricultural resources. http://agricultureguide.org/