Posted: 7/11/2025 12:30:29 AM EDT
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I’ll be planting a couple rows of raspberries below my house. Still have to get fences up, bring in some good soil, etc. But…I’m on a kick to figure out how to water them from a few rain barrels I have attached to the gutters coming from my chicken coop and goat house. I can also fill the barrels from the well with a hose. It’s not feasible to run hose down there all summer and my well kind of sucks at 3gpm after it’s been running for an hour straight. The important thing is that the barrels are about 25ft above the berry patch, giving me a theoretical (almost) 11psi to set up an irrigation system. I know piping has friction loss and it varies wildly with different pipes, 90 degree corners, couplers and whatnot. How would you set this up? Pipe diameter and material? It’s basically a straight shot down to the berries from the barrels. Once I’ve got the water there I’m kind of leaning towards using bubblers off PE pipe laid along the rows to maximize the water getting to the root zone. Will this work? Is there a better idea? |
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Originally Posted By Lucifer_Sam: You didnt say how long But most irrigation supplier sites like Rainbird will have charts on best length for what tubing, PSI, etc Call it about 120-130ft from the barrels to the berry patch with the ~25ft elevation change. |
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| I did it (smaller scale) with a couple of rain barrels plumbed to soaker hose into a rose garden. When we are short of rain, I can turn on the valve and let it go for a while. It's slow enough that I don't worry about over-watering. Not a large-scale solution, but easy. Friends with vineyards here use drip nozzles. |
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Originally Posted By Roger_C: I did it (smaller scale) with a couple of rain barrels plumbed to soaker hose into a rose garden. When we are short of rain, I can turn on the valve and let it go for a while. It's slow enough that I don't worry about over-watering. Not a large-scale solution, but easy. Friends with vineyards here use drip nozzles. Thanks for the reply. I’m soaker hose averse  They just don’t last and blow out way too easily under any sort of pressure. I like the drip nozzle idea. At the moment I’m thinking of running a 3/4 (or is 1” better?) irrigation pipe off the barrels and having a manifold at the berry patch to run out a couple 1/2” lines with drip nozzles set at each plant. I only have 165g of storage (3 barrels) set up for this so targeted watering is a must. Impulse sprinklers would be unnecessarily wasteful but I don’t know if bubblers would work very well due to the low pressure. I might just have to experiment and see what I get. Ugh. I have ~800g set further uphill in 3 IBC’s but that’s earmarked for fire suppression around my small cabin and I don’t want to be constantly draining and refilling those tanks as the well is the only feasible way to do that. |
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I’ve got a newer raspberry patch I put in that isn’t close to a decent water source and I can’t dig from where there’s water to the new patch so im planning to gravity irrigate from a 50gal drum raised on a platform that I’ll refill from the hose as needed, battery powered timer to open the valve from Home Depot, drip irrigate for like 10 minutes twice a day or adjust as needed. Hoping to finish it to look something like this: 
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