1/2 in. x 50 ft. Sub-Surface Drip Emitter Tubing Coil

I got this for my garden watering system. We have very limited water coming into our well and have to be conservative on it’s use. I use either drip or micro sprayers through out the garden with timers to control on and off times. These work real well with spacing of the strippers at 18” I plant my tomatoes at that spacing and it works good. The only thing you have to do is change your timer with growth of your plants and the weather conditions. Some plants are tolerant of slightly wet or slightly dry, so you’ll have to judge that for your needs. The pipe is fairly thin walled so it will kink rather easily, but is easily enough to flatten back out. You will need to warm the roll to lay it out otherwise it will want to coil backup on you. I use a propane torch to warm the ends to make it easier to put on the fittings. It uses .710 fittings.

I give it a Five Star rating for what it is. Rather than pay for the brand's adapters I bought half inch (1/2") hose menders and used those to make my connections to standard garden hoses. A "female end" connector attaches directly to a standard garden hose. A utility knife was used to cut Rain Bird's hose to length and then the adapter was attached, then a section of half inch garden hose was used to attach to the faucet. I obtained brass hose connectors and hose clamps to make my connections. To prevent leaks I used Flex Seal Glue; works like a charm!

Great for a straight run or wide radius turns for watering within flower beds. Love the copper color as it just disappears in the soil. Love that you can bury this line or run it on top. Perfect for areas where soaker hoses won't work or for individual small plant watering. Only issue is that it really wants to kink at the slightest bend of the hose or if you hammed your stakes down too hard. Otherwise, it's a great drip line.

Rain Bird's 1/2 inch x 50 ft Sub-Surface Drip Emitter Tubing is the standard for drip irrigation. This is the perfect tubing for hooking up to your drip valve and branching off your 1/4 inch tubing for individual spots. It also works great for installing drip valves directly into it for long runs. Don't mind kinks that may be in the line upon opening of the package because it straightens back out after a day or so in the sun. Rain Bird is my go-to for drip irrigation products.

I ordered the Rain Bird 1/2 inch x 50 feet drip emitter tubing. I received a coil in copper color. I looks great and blends in well with the dirt when sitting above ground. It can be installed below ground as well. It has copper shield technology to prevent root intrusion. It allows for a flow of 0.9 gallos per hour when the emitters are spaced 18 inches apart. The holes are not pre-punched. Easy to use and install for fun home gardening projects.

Neat stuff. I installed the RainBird emitter tubing below the soil surface and under black plastic mulch in my make shift low tunnel hoop house that I use in my garden. The emitters being pre-installed in the tubing saves a lot of effort and work really well. The RainBird tubing was easy to unroll and cut to length with my simple tube cutters. What appeared to be kinks just disappeared as I unrolled the tubing. I did use irrigation tubing stakes to hold things in place before covering the line with soil and then the plastic mulch. A compression end cap fitting and a female hose fitting that I also got at Home Depot installed easy enough using a dead blow hammer. The tubing is really easy to work with. The emitters work well. There’s a bit more flow than just a weep. I tried but couldn’t get a decent photo. With this setup I’ll be able to water plants growing in plastic mulch with ease and extending the season should be more productive with subsurface irrigation in place. I may even run some water soluble fertilizer through this system. Wish I would have installed this under the weed barrier in my landscape plant beds.

I like to use drip irrigation for planting beds here in Southwest Florida. In the past I used 1/2 inch drip irrigation tubing. I then used 1/4 inch drip line tubing and various drip emitters to water the plants. I am building a home and plan to use this new Rain Bird 1/2 inch drip irrigation tubing to water the plants in the planting beds. This will be a huge time saver as I can place the tubing under ground, under the weed cloth and mulch. The plants will get water and I do not have mess with the 1/4 inch drip lines and emitters. The tubing has 0.9 gallon per hour (GPH) emitters built into the tubing and spaced every 18 inches. The tubing features copper shield technology that naturally protects the emitters from root intrusion without chemicals.

Drip irrigation is a great way to water garden beds, but over time our drip system has become less effective as we've added a hodge-podge of drip emitters and various spray emitters. So now, fifty feet at a time, we're using the Rainbird sub surface tubing to replace the mess we've created over the past few years and improve both the appearance and the efficiency of our system. We don't dig trenches to bury the tubing; we just lay it on the ground, then after planting is complete we cover it with mulch. If needed, you can branch off the half inch line with Rainbird 1/4" drip emitter tubing or punch a hole and add emitters if needed.

I needed to add more lines to my existing sprinkler system since I was enlarging my flower beds and they required drip-type stations per the city code. The yard area could have spray heads, but the beds must have drip lines. First thing I noticed about this tubing was that it came wound up in a tight coil. This required straightening it out the best I could, and then letting the sun warm it up to make it somewhat pliable. You can buy wire or plastic stakes to anchor it in place - highly recommended. It cuts to the proper length easily with a box cutter or sharp knife. Be sure you get the proper type connectors also (see my pictures.) If you get the wrong ones, you will get leaks (geysers!). I wish that the drip holes were closer together than the 18" apart; ten or twelve would be better, which is the typical amount recommended for spacing most annual flowers. Overall, this is a good product to use on larger plants like shrubs, but could be better for flowers if the drip holes were closer together.

Let me start by saying, this is not a copper tubing drip emitter even though it looks like copper and the packaging uses the term "Copper Shield". It's just a copper colored plastic tube with another tube inside it. This product is meant for direct burial but I decided to bury it in the mulch in our flower garden. I think that should achieve the close to the same affect of preventing evaporation. Since this thing is going in the ground you need some sort of back-flow prevention. If you have an older house you will definitely want to, at the least, install an anti-siphon valve spigot to supply water to this. I won't go into the specifics of why back-flow prevention is so important. The product is a 50ft long piece of tubing but there are no fittings? How am I supposed to connect it to a water supply? It turns out, there are additional fittings you need to buy from Rainbird to connect it to your spigot and to plug the open end so the water doesn't just dump out. I guess it's good that you can buy the tubing without having to pay for the cost of the garden hose adapter and the plug for the end if you plan on connecting it to your irrigation system like I do. For the time being, I connected it use a male barb fitting and by clamping off the open end. Not the way it was intended to be done but it's only temporary and I wanted to see how well it worked. Plant roots always try to grow to where the water is and Rainbird claims this uses "Copper Shield Technology" to inhibit root growth into the emitter tubing without the use of chemicals. It takes a while for the roots to do this, so I will have to take the wait and see approach. They also advertise some sort of "pressure diaphragm compensating technology" that makes sure each drip emitter hole (spaced every 18") is releasing the same amount of water so everything is watered evenly. With long lengths of tubing the pressure drops as you get closer to the end of the run so those outlets usually have lower flow. I believe this is Rainbird's attempt at equalizing the flow from each emitter. I'm really hoping this product lasts long term because I hate having to water the flower bed and I don't want to install a bunch of sprinkler heads that limit where my wife can put her plants. This seems to be a nice set it and forget it solution that is worth a shot at trying. We're nearing the end of the growing season but the plants are still doing ok.