After reading a really old thread on this forum, I decided to put in a drip irrigation system. I purchased a couple of kits and installed 100ft of irrigation this morning. I have each daylily set up with a 1GPH drip. My daylily clumps are still pretty small. Most have 3-5 fans, but I do have some larder clumps with 8-10 fans. Should I use more than one dripper for the larger clumps - one on each side of the plant?
Also, once I had the line laid out and before I poked holes for the drippers, I ran water through the line to flush it out. Then about 30 minutes later when I was putting in the drippers, I noticed that the water that was left in the line from when I flushed it was already hot. Once I had the drippers installed and the line running, the water came out hot for a minute or two (depending how far down the line the dripper was) before turning cold. Will this warm water harm the daylilies? I do plan on covering the line with mulch eventually but I have busy, busy weeks/weekends (3 kids in travel baseball/softball) starting this afternoon and I'm not sure when I will be able to get the mulching done. Hopefully it won't be a problem. Will applying a couple inches of mulch over the line keep it cool enough?
