DPL at Home: Grow With Us - Drip Irrigation for Landscape & Urban Horticulture brought to you by Green Dallas

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Family
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This program is available online only.

Grow with Us is a series of online sessions from the Dallas Public Library - Seed Library and Dallas Environmental Quality and Sustainability hosting expert speakers to share practical, informative, and inspirational information about growing and urban agriculture in Dallas. 

What is Drip Irrigation? Why you should use drip Irrigation? 

Rodney Patton, Area Specifications Manager for the Central Region with Netafim USA, will answer these questions and guide you through the basics of drip irrigation.

This class will cover:

  • Typical drip irrigation design layout
  • Product selection for a drip irrigation system
  • How soil types and slope affects product selection
  • Lateral row spacing, emitter flow rates, and run times
  • Maintenance tips for the perfect drip irrigation  
  • Plus a look a the newly installed system at the urban farming project at the Hatcher Station Training Farm