Rain Bird ET256-50S Drip Irrigation Pressure Compensating 1/4" Emitter Tubing, 6" Emitter Spacing, 50 Roll, Brown

We have converted our old sprinkler system to drip to conserve water. The picture shows a bank with Rain Bird pressure compensation tubing with inline drip emitters installed cross ways on the bank. The pressure compensation feature insures that water is applied evenly at the top and bottom of the bank. We also used it in other locations and did a head to head comparison with new dig non pressure compensating drip lines. The result was that the dig tubing emitted little or no water but the Rain Bird pressure compensation worked well. So COST is always a factor but in our minds the increase expense was validated by the pressure compensation feature. I gave the durability rating only 4 stars because we have not tested it over a winter yet ....

After having mistakenly installed an emitter with holes spaced 8 inches apart I bought this, with holes 6 inches apart, that works way better. The tubing seems to be of very good quality plastic and it is a bit rigid so you need to have plenty of staples around to fasten it to the soil to make it go where you want it to go. Also my previous emitter line seemed a bit rigid so maybe that's typical of this kind of tubing. So far it has been working very well.

Perfect drip, on uneven terrain works great- couple extra feet per roll. 11/10 🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌

I purchased this drip tube a while ago but didn’t really use it in my garden right away. I think what turned me off in the beginning, was the difficulty of laying it out and inserting barbs, because it isn’t very pliable.I decided to work on my irrigation, now that Summer is coming to an end, and do a major overhaul. I’m also trying out square foot gardening, which is new to me, and I thought I could do a grid pattern with this drip tubing.I laid it in the sun to make it a little more flexible but it’s still definitely difficult to work with. I also had these 4 inch long stakes for 1/4” tubing, that I purchased from my local hardware store, and I made my grid.It definitely took a little practice to get it right, but I think I have it figured out now. I wanted to elevate the tubing above the soil and mulch, so that it drips down and doesn’t lay in the dirt. I use the stakes to elevate the tubing maybe an inch above the ground and this works like a charm. It is actually pretty awesome and the stiffness of the tubing I think helps it stay elevated.I have my 12 x 12 squares laid out for my square foot gardening in my 2 x 4 bed and the whole bed is perfectly moist from running this for 15 minutes.. I’m an urban gardener with a tiny backyard.I decided to post this review because maybe it will help someone else. I have definitely struggled with figuring out irrigation and so I’m pretty happy with the set up. The only problem is I can’t find those stakes anywhere but my local hardware store but luckily they had a pack of 50. I’m using 6-8 stakes per square, which is probably overkill, but I did anyway. Lol .

I put this down my bean rows in the garden tonight and turned them on. Superior in every way to drippers or those little sprayers on their own stake. The coverage is spot on where it should be. It is quite stiff, but it relaxed very quickly in 90 degree sun and was easy to lay where I wanted it to be. I used orbit connectors to hook it to my main supply line and it is tough to get them shoved in this tubing. But on the plus side, they aint gonna come off or leak, which I could care less if it did leak. It's a dripper line, it leaks every 6 inches anyway. Will be buying more of this next year when I expand my garden.

I bought this and a leading brand and I can say this is just as good and costs half as much. I set it up on top of the dirt (not buried) but dirt often covers it anyways and it never clogs and provides a nice steady drip. The 6" emitter spacing is necessary for vegetable gardens and places where your plants are fairly close. It gives you the ability to stake the emitters down right where you need them. The guaranteed flow rate works well, unlike soaker hose which loses most of it's pressure within a few feet of the supply line, this emitter hose provides steady pressure throughout the garden. I setup a larger 1/2" distribution hose first, and then tapped into it with this 1/4" line about every 18" (to match the approximate spacing of my garden rows). So each row in my garden has an emitter hose and I weaved it throughout the plants and staked it down to keep the water just where I needed it.

We live in a dry area so drip watering is the only way to go.We used this tubing a few years ago in both of our front flowerbeds and we’re SO glad that we did! I can’t say enough good things about it!Husband made a manifold of sorts & we ran this tubing off of that in 5 rows about 8” apart. Then we ran the tubing through 5 short pieces of conduit to run underneath the ‘sidewalk’ (flagstones). This was such a difficult area that everything planted there in the previous six years failed miserably.But now to our delight this drip tubing allowed us to plant some very beautiful shade giving shrubs and flowers. We have gotten so many compliments, even from my cousin who is married to the owner of a landscaping company! She said that they couldn’t believe that we did it ourselves.So we’ve decided that it makes it all worth repeating the project on the backside of our house which is currently being put in.THANK YOU for the FABULOUS product!!!

There are several different hoses available from rainbird. We one require an air gap some don't.Different wall thickness too.Make sure you know which one you want.