HOZELOCK - Universal Irrigation Kit : Ideal for Watering Borders, Flowerbeds and Vegetable Gardens, Easydrip Universal Drippers/sprinklers, Supplied with 15m of Ø 13mm Hose [7023 0000]

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The bag capacity is 75L of water, released slowly over five to seven hours for even and sustained watering of your trees. A really useful feature is that you can adjust the flow of water through each dripper separately. If you’re watering two trees with the same hose/kit and they each have different watering requirements, you can make sure that each tree receives the correct amount of water. The end of the hose has a cap to ensure that all the water exits through the drippers. Consider replacing this with a sprinkler for an additional way of irrigating your tree. By programming the optimum watering schedule into a timer, you won’t be constantly anxious about remembering when you last watered these vulnerable plants.

In this review, we take a look at different watering systems that do the job well, specifically a drip watering system, a soaker hose, and a low-tech bag irrigation system. As none of these are automated when you buy them, we have included a review of an Orbit water timer.

The flexi hose carries the water to the universal Universal drippers which can be easily fitted, repositioned and angled without the need to cut the hose making the set up of the system a breeze.

The kit comes with 10 drippers, each capable of watering up to 100cm in diameter therefore providing extensive coverage. You connect each bag around the tree trunk using the zipper it has and the separate strap (included). However, if your tree is too large for one bag, just zip two bags together and fill each bag with water (using your garden hose) separately. Just refill the bags when you want to deliver the next dose of water to the trees – once or twice a week is usually enough, depending on the weather. Instead of writing a detailed Buyer’s Guide here for each of the product types in this review, here are links to similar products that we review. When your young trees are established and settled in, you may be interested in establishing some plants underneath them. Our article 10 of the best plants for underneath trees provides useful information on this.Cut the hose to whatever length(s) you want. We recommend using sections not longer than 30m. Your tree may be further into your garden than this, so just hook the soaker hose to your garden hose with a universal connector. This is a good idea anyway because if you connect the soaker hose to your outside tap and then take it over your patio and lawn to your tree, water soaks out everywhere and your patio and lawn will get wet too. And you may not want this.