Carpathen 30pcs Drip Irrigation Emitters - 1/4" Drip Irrigation System Push-to-Connect - Adjustable 360 Degree Drip Emitters Vortex on 6" Sturdy S...

I really love these sprinkler heads for our garden. They evenly spray everywhere. We had a mixture of sprinkler heads, but other ones would hit the same area too much and miss other spots, causing pools and dry spots. These sprinklers spray very consistently all around the head, covering everything in a consistent blanket of water. We ended up ordering these twice and now the whole garden is using these sprayers.

We have a garden that consists of 12 30x60 inch raised beds...5 feet by 2 1/2 feet. We have a 1/2 inch main distribution line that passes through all 12 beds and we started using drip emitters last year. We primarily are using 1/2 gallon per hour (GPH) and 1gallon GPH drip emitters. I wanted to try these "sprinkler" adjustable emitters for a couple of reasons. 1. I could use one of these to cover several plants rather than placing a drip type emitter at every plant. 2. These are adjustable and cleanable. 3. These are very easy to install. The connection at the stake of this "sprinkler" emitter is a "push to connect" type that is quick to install and remove. I tested them in my potato bed with each emitter covering 2 or 3 plants. In testing that bed alone, everything worked perfectly. However when the whole system was ready to go for the season with all emitters in place, these just weren't getting enough water to work properly. We have an irrigation pump that pulld water from our supply tank. It goes thru a filter and then a line about 30 feet long to the garden where there is an irrigation timer and a 25 PSI pressure control that connects to the 1/2 inch distribution line. When the timer turns on the system for all beds, the drippers work at the rate expected, but there is either not enough volume or pressure in our system to allow these sprinkler type emitters to work properly in our setup. The emitters are fantastic, they just don't work properly with our pressure controlled slow drip system but hopefully they will work for you because they are so easy to work with and adjust..

The rotating tip seems to adjust down by itself, have to twist it to adjust the next day. Maybe shifts due to water pressure when timer starts/stops? The drip line is easy to insert. I sent a question on how to take the drip line out, answered within 24 hours, I had missed seeing it in the video.

We used these drip irrigation heads in our 4 raised bed gardens. They are so easy to install they just literally push onto the end of a 1/4 inch tubing then you put the drip head near your plant and push the stake down into the ground to secure the drip head in place. The heads are then very adjustable using the red cap on the top, you twist it to increase or decrease the rate of flow of the water which lets you really customize your irrigation system. You do have to run a line of tubing from a splitter to each one as they can not be set up inline. It was done easily with 4 way splitters that were able to be set inline with each other. I. Ran 4 four way splitters on one line down the center of my raised bed and then ran 4 lines off of each 4 way splitter one to each plant giving me 16 drip heads which more than covered my whole raised bed. Very happy with these drip heads so far. They have been in use for a month now.

These were a very easy install compared to others I've used in the past. As far as longevity, time will tell, as these will be exposed to the California Sun.