A different product from most of this shelf
Five items here are soaker hoses: porous tube that weeps along its whole
length and waters a line.
This is a micro-drip kit: sealed tubing that carries water to points you
choose, and releases it only at emitters you push in where you want them.
The distinction decides which one is right for a garden.
A soaker down a row of carrots waters the carrots. A soaker past six pots on a
patio waters the paving between them.
This is the one for pots, containers, a greenhouse bench, spaced shrubs and a
hedge of individual plants — anywhere the plants are separated by ground you do
not want wet.
340 pieces, 70 metres of tube
55 metres of main tubing and 15 metres of branch tubing, plus emitters,
tees, elbows, stakes, end caps and connectors making 340 parts in total.
The listing does not itemise beyond that total, which is the same gap as the
connector sets on this site’s fittings shelf: a count is not a contents list,
and what matters in a kit is whether the mix suits your layout.
What can be said is that 70 metres of tube and several hundred fittings is a
substantial system — this is a weekend of laying out, not a ten-minute job.
The warning, which is the most useful thing here
The listing says, in its own installation tips: the water coming out of an
emitter is affected by the water pressure; if the pressure is low, the output
at the far end is poor; it is recommended to use several pipes at the same
time, each carrying a number of drip heads according to the actual pressure.
That is the central design rule for micro-drip and it is rarely stated on a
listing.
Every emitter takes water out. The more emitters on one run, the further the
pressure has fallen by the last one, and the last few give a trickle while the
first few run properly.
The fix is exactly what the listing says: split the system into several shorter
branches off the supply rather than one long chain. It costs more tees and it
is the difference between twenty plants watered and twelve.
The hot water tip
Also in the listing, twice: soak the end of the tube in hot water for a minute
before pushing a fitting on.
This is the standard technique and it works for a physical reason. Polythene
micro-tube is stiff cold, and a barbed fitting will not enter without either
force or a cut. Warm, it goes on; as it cools it contracts onto the barb and
grips harder than it would have done.
Anybody who has fought a bag of 4 mm fittings on a cold March morning will
recognise why the manufacturer bothered to print it.
Adjustable emitters
Named as the upgrade in the first feature line: the tubing and emitters allow
the water quantity to be regulated.
Adjustable drippers are a mixed blessing and this page will say so. They let
one system serve a thirsty tomato and a dry-loving herb from the same run,
which is genuinely useful.
They also drift. A screw-adjustable emitter has no detent, and grit, algae and
handling move it. A system of adjustable emitters needs checking each season in
a way that fixed-rate drippers do not.
No flow rate is published for them at either extreme, so there is no way to
plan a run on paper.
“Up to 80 %”
The highest saving claim on this shelf; four other listings here say 70 %.
None of them says what the comparison is.
The underlying point is sound — water delivered to a root zone loses almost
nothing to evaporation, wind, or wetting paths and leaves, and a sprinkler
loses a great deal to all three. How large the saving is depends entirely on
what it replaced.
Printing a percentage without the baseline is not a measurement. It appears on
five of the seven listings on this shelf.
Availability
From 33 € to 35 €, that being the spread across the German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores on the day of the survey.
Listed and unsold: the British Amazon catalogue holds the reference with nobody behind it.
Nothing came back from the American Amazon store at all; the buy button there runs a search rather than opening an empty page.
Taken from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and prices move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 26 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
