The down side is they need to be refreshed each spring. After the fall clean up it is easy for a drip system to have missing or clogged heads. As your garden grows your drip system may need some additions or deletions.

Turn your system on and go over it emitter by emitter. Be sure each one still works. If anything needs changing the ease of installation makes it easy to do.

As plants get established any emitters placed close by the crown of the plant needs to be moved away from there and you often need to add additional emitters.

Drip systme work great, but only if you check them.

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