Simple Bucket Drip Irrigation System

One of the projects that I love best is working in the local schools with school gardening projects. Keeping the garden beds watered consistently can be a bit of a challenge. A neat kit that I learned about last year at ECHO's annual conference is this simple 5 gallon bucket drip irrigation system from Chapin Living Waters.


Bucket Kit
photo credit:
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The kit comes with everything you need (less the bucket) including 100 feet of drip tape. This can be used as four 25 ft lines, two 50 ft lines or a single 100 ft line. I'm testing it using 2 lines on my 3 ft wide, 25 ft long raised bed.

This week I installed the kit onto a newly prepared garden bed in front of our house. I made a simple stand to hold the bucket 1 meter above the raised bed as prescribed in the easy to follow instructions, installed the lines and trip tape and in less than 1 hour had a nicely functioning garden watering system.

Now I just fill the bucket twice daily on non rainy days and the soil under my layer of Rice straw stays perfectly moist.

These kits will be a great addition to our school gardens, and I think the kids will have a great time setting them up and showing them to their parents. School starts back up after the first of the year and I'll be sure to report and share photos of our progress.


Prepped Raised Bed


Drip Bucket Veiw 1


Drip Bucket View 2


Special Connector To Attach Drip Line To
Bucket Fitting (Included in kit)


Agua!