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Now that I have had the system up and running for a few weeks I can see a few things that need re-doing. First, I have quite a few tropicals on the shelves but with winter coming it is time to move them onto the little garden wagons I have. They stay on these little wagons all winter and at the first frost or freeze warning they get pulled into my work shop until the danger is over then back out into the sunshine until the next warning. Here in Florida that means being pulled in and out a lot.

Mean while, the drip heads that kept them watered now need to be shut off.
I went to Home Depot last week and bought several packages of shut off valves that can be inserted into the drip lines. They come two to a package and end up costing about $2. a pack. Today I cut each drip line that ran to a tropical and inserted the shut off valve into each cut end of the line. Now when I remove the trees from the shelf, turn off that drip head and no water is wasted. While the tropicals are on the wagons I water them manually. More modifications to the system are expected......
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