Spec me a sprinkler system

elrasho · 22 Apr 2014 at 11:34

I've been gardening for the past few weeks and plants lawn seeds aswell as some flowers which I've grown from seedlings.

I need to make sure my lawn (10 feet squared) and the flower beds going around the lawn are kept well watered and so thinking of getting an automatic sprinkler system.

It'll switch on for about 5-10mins at 8:30am, 3:00pm and 7:00pm

I'm trying to find an all in one kit that included the hose, timer and sprinkler but can't find one anywhere :confused:

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Mark M · 22 Apr 2014 at 13:12

Ive been looking into this recently also and the mini Hozelock stuff seems pretty decent. There do a kit for about £100 but its all scalable depending on size and what you need obviously. ITs available at most garden centres too.

I found this site that seemed pretty good and had a fairly useful guide - http://www.easygardenwatering.co.uk/index.php?dispatch=pages.view&page_id=2

elrasho · 22 Apr 2014 at 13:26

The only Hozelock kits I see are for pots, I'm looking for a kit that covers lawns and flower beds

Cosimo · 22 Apr 2014 at 13:40

Maybe something like this:

http://www.garden4less.co.uk/claber-colibri-lawn-watering-system.asp#LongDesc

Mark M · 22 Apr 2014 at 13:41

Did you check out the Hozelock guide on the link I posted? You can just change the pot "droppers" to a mini sprinkler of varying sorts. There is a table that shows coverage distance but its going to depend on the size of your lawn as to whether or not they're suitable.

Im not sure if they do sprinkler kits to be fair but it would be easy enough to price it all together individually if you werent going to use some of the stuff in the kit.

elrasho · 22 Apr 2014 at 15:38

Cosimo said:
Maybe something like this:

http://www.garden4less.co.uk/claber-colibri-lawn-watering-system.asp#LongDesc

That looks good, but don't need as many sprinklers my lawn plus flower bed is 12ft square

Mynight · 22 Apr 2014 at 16:56

I just drilled a load of holes in a hose. Much cheaper version.

B&q where doing a set of 4 for about £70 last weekend. I'll try and dig up a link.

MrMoonX · 22 Apr 2014 at 22:58

When the hosepipe ban comes you can't use it, so I wouldn't bother

Schizo · 23 Apr 2014 at 08:12

I would use this...http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hozelock-Aq...14&sr=1-2&keywords=sprinklers+hozelock...with this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hozelock-Aq...98237014&sr=1-15&keywords=sprinklers+hozelock

For the amount of time we have summer this would be the cheaper and easier route to take.

elrasho · 23 Apr 2014 at 08:50

MrMoonX said:
When the hosepipe ban comes you can't use it, so I wouldn't bother

Can't remember the last time we had a hose pipe ban

schizo said:
I would use this...http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hozelock-Aq...14&sr=1-2&keywords=sprinklers+hozelock...with this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hozelock-Aq...98237014&sr=1-15&keywords=sprinklers+hozelock

For the amount of time we have summer this would be the cheaper and easier route to take.

Thanks for the links, that sprinkler covers 180m2! Mt lawn is only about 5m2 so I'm going to get the Hozelock Vortex 8 Dial Sprinkler 2515

platypus · 24 May 2018 at 10:59

Sorry for the thread necro... but has anyone use those Claber Colibri pop up kits? We're putting down a brand new lawn soon so it seems like a great time to do it, assuming they're any good...?