Customer Reviews

Rain Bird GRDNER-KIT Landscape Dripline System Gardener-Foots Drip Starter Kit

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This kit is seriously lacking in parts and directions. It is barely enough to get started. The directions are horrible. I consider myself a fairly handy person and made many mistakes due to having no idea what I was supposed to be doing. I have since figured much more out (www.dripdepot.com) and have pretty good drip irrigation knowledge, I would NOT buy this kit again.

This worked well as a start for my garden. We have many plants that need individual drips and I ended up at home depot buying more to supplement the few that came with this kit. That being said it was a great buy for all the basics and I loved their "soaker" hose which wasn't available at home depot.

I bought two kits. Using the parts from two kits I was able to water a spread of 25 x 8 feet. About 150 ft of hose was left over, and there are no parts left for adding additional drips (I used all T adapters from both kits and all drip accessories). Not enough drip adapters are placed in the kits. Only 3 "T" connectors are in the kit. If you want additional, then you have to purchase more accessory kits. This kit is meant to get the shopper interested in buying more accessories, not about completing a home irrigation project.

This is a good kit to get you started. It is a drip-line irrigation system that works sort of like a soaker hose. It's not the sort that has an emitter for each plant, but for a single 50' line or a twin line of up to 25'. If you want anything else, you will likely need more parts.

It does come with five emitters but these are intended for the odd plant that gets left out of the drip-line pattern.

If you are going to use this is a vegetable garden you will need more emitters (it has one every 18"), and more "T" connectors if you want more than two rows.

The hose kinks easily and resists uncoiling. I had to straighten it out and hold it in place with bricks in the sun for a half hour or so to straighten it.

I bought this because I thought it would include everything I would need to water a 6'x3' raised bed. There was plenty of piping, but a severe lack of the fixtures necessary to do it. They give you a few of each, but not enough to really set up a true drip system, and I ended up having to go to the store and buy more pieces. It would've been cheaper for me to do that from the start.

I bought this to keep my square foot garden properly hydrated during the Texas summers. Maybe my expectations were too high for this product. It took a fair amount of poking extra holes as well as trying to find extra connectors to make this work for my garden. After 1 season of use, the plastic screw near the hose attachment came out and was lost in the grass. It looked like I had a weak water fountain was installed out at my garden. I was able to find another regular screw to remedy this. I would not purchase this item again. I'll stick with the soaker hoses.

I downloaded the drip guide from Rain Bird online since some of the items in the set looked different from the ones I had 20 years ago when I installed a drip system at my home in San Diego. This system worked well then and works well now! We are having very dry summer and I have some plants that need more water but I also want to conserve so drip irrigation is the way to go! I used the drip line around the hydrangeas, connected blank hose to get around an oak tree, then used drip emitters installed in the black 1/2 tubing around shrubs in another area of the yard. Attached the faucet connector and bingo! Works like a charm! Water goes directly to the plants that need it and there's no runoff into other areas of my yard.
I plan to get additional drip hose to put around some other sections of my yard and have purchased additional faucet connectors. Read the guide online-it's very helpful.

I ordered this kit not knowing what I needed or how I was going to organize my drip system. There are so many pieces to choose from I just wanted to see everything and try out a few different configurations. This kit covered most of the bases and was enough for my 10' x 11' vegetable garden. I will probably buy more pieces next year, but I have what I need to make it work this year.

I especially liked that it came with a pressure regulator. The pressure regulator is an important element to ensuring your system lasts (so I've read) so I was happy to see this kit came with one.

The instructions were ok. I think instructions for this sort of customizable system are inherently vague, as they must cover the many different things you could do with the parts. I was able to figure it out and set it up in a few hours.

I was really dissapointed in this system and wound up tearing it out and putting it out for trash pickup.
I found it very unattractive and I could not find a way to hide it. It did not cover very much ground (or very many containers, which is what I have).

This was a disapointment. What I wanted to do was us it to save water. But I did not have enough connectors to the water sprout and was not able to get the parts needed from the vendor.

I would not recommend this for large gardens or planted areas.