Water from sprinkler head to bed?

What does the sprinkler head currently water and what type of head is it(spray or rotor head)?

There's quite a few solutions depending on what you want or how much you care about wasting water. The whole purpose of doing something like drip is to provide enough water without wasting and also helps avoid spraying the foliage.

With that said, if you dont want drip irrigation...then you can either:

1) Adjust the spray head if its a rotor to include watering the bed.

2) You can find the line the sprinkler head is attached to and tap into it and add another head. Whether or not this is recommended is dependent on how many heads you have on the zone already, how many gpm your water supply provides, and what type of sprinkler heads are on that line.

Basically you dont wont to add another head if your zone cant support it, otherwise you'll lose pressure and the heads wont pop up. Its also generally not recommended to mix and match heads on a zone. Pop up spray heads put out much more water than a rotor. So whereas a rotor may need to run for 30mins to a hour to provide enough water, the pop up sprayer may only need 10-15mins of run time. So you'll either end up over watering or underwatering certain areas if you have a mix. This may or may not bother you.


3) you can add a whole another zone to provide irrigation to that bed($$$)

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It's a rotor head that cannot water this particular bed.
The zone it's in isn't very important to my yard overall.
If doing this makes the other sprinklers in that zone not work, I will not be bothered.

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It really depends on how many heads you already have on the zone and its fairly easy to get a gpm measurement that decently accurate doing the bucket test from a hose bib.

Ive never used a retro drip kit. But if you dont mind that the beds get watered at the same time as the other zone, then I would consider just tap into the main line supplying that head and running it to the bed and doing one of those drip kits that lowers the psi and running drip for the bed. You still might technically run into the problem of over watering/underwatering depending on how long you are running the system.

Its usually why its better for it be on its own zone/timer etc. I have a few landscape beds with drip irrigation, but I have it running from hose bib on timers. If I had endless money and time, id run a zone from my main irrigation and set up a new valve.