Hi pieheart,

This is the first year for me as well for drip irrigation system, I got a lot of parts from www.mrdrip.com as well as walmart. I think what you need are goof plugs. But the ideal way would be to put to design it in a way that you plant you dont end up with to many of them. Hope this solves your problem.

CG

Thanks for the link, charotarguy! I got my supplies at Walmart on clearance, but I'm going to check your link for any parts WM doesn't have.

This is my first year with raised beds, I'm using a kind of modified square foot garden method. I'm winging it this year, seeing what works and what doesn't. I guess I'm a relaxed gardener! I'm going to set up the drip system this weekend, I will be giving your suggestion some thought and see if it will work with the mistakes I've made so far in plant placement.

Flexibility is a key virtue of drip irrigation. My wife likes to move stuff around a lot - I tried to get her to plant things in pots and put the pots on pallets so I could just move them around, but she got all puffed up...

To your point, you can use goof plugs or just replace the pipe past the filter and pressure reducer......pipe is about a dime a foot, so it's not a big deal to replace once a year. I would rather replace than repair. Home Depot has fair (but reduced) inventory of DIG drip irrigation supplies.