Changing Sprinklers to Drip Irrigation For A Garden or Raised Beds

If you started with a lawn and added a garden, you might be able to convert your lawn sprinklers into a drip irrigation system for your vegetable garden or raised bed. We'll go through how we changed ours and show you different methods for doing the same.

We replaced all the sprinklers in an entire zone of our lawn with Rain Bird riser connection kits in order to get low flow drip irrigation in our garden. We use a combination of 1/4 inch drip line and 1/2 inch drip line, depending on the needs for each section.

0:00 Intro
0:29 Why drip?
1:58 Our system
3:35 Removing old heads
4:39 Conversion Kit
4:53 Head height
5:37 Trenching
5:48 Cutting lines
6:04 Connecting beds
6:28 Squash tunnel
6:50 Quarter inch lines
7:05 Punching Pipes
7:57 Secondary head
9:08 Sizes and adapters
10:09 Clearing lines
10:56 Filter maintenance
12:00 Summary

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Products used in this video:
Rain Bird Riser Connection Kit - https://amzn.to/3nj3a27
Irrigation punch tool - https://amzn.to/3v5wDPI