There is one caveat about DIG. If you use the drip manifold heads, they can't stand much pressure and you may have blowout problems. Here our house municipal water pressure is over 60 psi and the barbs will regularly blow out of their push-in sockets in the head. They seem to be only a friction fit. Cheap?

I use quarter inch drip line almost exclusively and it all seems to be universally exchangeable among brands. There's heads, quarter inch solid line, quarter inch emitter line (clogs), and emitters. I use the universal flag emitters because they're easy to clean (water is heavily mineralized). Everything else is supplied by half inch PVC schedule 40 "pipe" for permanence and reliability. I see no parts that can't be freely swapped out.

Thanks for the reply, grubby_me.

>If you use the drip manifold heads, they can't stand much pressure and you may have blowout problems.I don't. I stick solely to the 1/2" built-in emitter drip line, as I've had way too many problems with the 1/4" stuff blowing off the lines.

Your mention of the barbs reminds me that I noticed that Randrip seems to have switched from compression fittings (where you pushed the tube ends inside a connector fitting) to barb-type fittings (where the connectors are on the inside of the emitter drip line). I was wondering whether that would be an improvement or not? Somehow the barbs seem like they might be more apt to blow apart.

Nil13, wish I had gotten your post just a little sooner. I went out and bought 300' of Dig drip line and a bucket load of connectors. Spent a chunk of my President's Day weekend installing it, only discover it was total, utter, undeniable crap. In a single 4' x 8' raised bed, I had about 25' of Dig drip line containing 17 emitters. Out of those 17 emitters, two barely emitted half of the water the other working emitters put out, and five did not emit any water at all. 7 out of 17 were defective. I immediately yanked those suckers out of there and took them back to the nearest Home Depot. Utter garbage!

I'm attaching a photo of my raised bed. Note the differences in the moisture rings around the emitters, especially the bone dry emitters, most of which are in the center line.

I called our local Ewing Irrigation, and for 300' of Netafim and all the connectors, it'll cost me an additional $30 over the Dig crap. If Netafim lives up to its reputation, that's a small price to pay for a reliable drip line system.

Not sure why that photo came out horizontally, as it's not that way on my computer. Houzz glitch perhaps?

Lowes carries the Raindrip line.

Any raindrip users? I have found the landscaper kit sold for $19 - $75. I have about 200 square feet of landscaping (drip) and ground cover (need micro sprayers) to work on. Plus 15 containers. Do these systems have to be pulled up in the winter (Zone 5-6)? Can you hook them up to a regular hose?

I don't believe you'll need to pull up your system if you're able to drain most of the water out of it before the freezes hit. I've seen some kits that do hook directly to a standard hose outlet, but it depends on the fittings. My guess would be that you'd be able to find some kind of adapter if the kit didn't come ready to hook up to a regular hose bib.

BTW, a year later and I'm very happy with the Netafim dripline. Highly recommended. Simply a superior product and worth the extra cost.

Raymondo, were did you buy your Netafim products? On Amazon, it is hard to figure out which size tubing goes with the correct fittings. I know this is a good product like you said, but, putting it all together on line, is challenging.

Sorry, just seeing this now. Somehow my email notifications don't arrive in my in-box.

I purchased the Netafim products at a local professional landscape irrigation store called Ewing. Not sure how widespread they are, but hopefully you've got a professional landscape supply place in your area. They can be very helpful when assembling all the parts that go into a drip line system.