How much water does each part of your watering system apply?

Now that you have an idea of how much water your plants need, you need to find out how much water your irrigation system applies. Keep in mind that there is a huge diffefence between the output of a drip emitter and a bubbler or garden hose. Compare how long it would take to apply 10 gallons of water through these methods:

• 2 minutes with a watering hose
• 10 minutes with a 1-gallon per minute bubbler
• 600 minutes or 10 hours with 1-galon per hour drip emitter

As you can see, drip systems should use multiple emmiters and run for longer periods of time to adequately water the root zones of your plants.