DripZone Layout

DripZone Layout Desk is a drip-irrigation layout and hydraulics workbench for market gardeners, CSA growers, and small-acreage vegetable farmers. Size beds, tape, emitters, zones, filters, and pump capacity before you cut poly or bury mainline. Enter real bed geometry, assign crop water classes, and auto-build tape and emitter layouts. Group beds into zones, solve flow plus friction, match header gear to your well or pump GPM, then walk to the supply house with a materials takeoff and field run-time cards. SITE & BLOCK BUILDER Create named garden sites, add multiple blocks, and enter bed length, width, row count, row spacing, and headland offsets. Duplicate a block to clone geometry for a second succession planting without retyping dimensions. CROP WATER-CLASS ASSIGNER Pick from a seeded library of leafy greens, brassicas, fruiting nightshades, cucurbits, roots, alliums, herbs, and berries—each with peak daily water inches, preferred emitter pitch, and max zone runtime hints—and pin a class to every bed. TAPE & EMITTER LAYOUT ENGINE Choose tape wall (8/15 mil), emitter pitch (6–12 in), and emitter GPH from a seeded catalog. The app computes lateral count, emitters per bed, total linear feet with waste factor, end caps, and goof-plug allowances from your bed grid. ZONE COMPOSER & HYDRAULICS BOARD Group beds into named zones, sum zone GPM, suggest manifold and mainline diameters, and chart estimated lateral friction loss versus length using seeded tape friction tables so you see pressure drop before you buy fittings. SUPPLY & PUMP MATCHER Enter available well or pump GPM and working PSI. The desk flags zones that exceed supply, proposes a sequential watering order, and recommends filter mesh rating plus pressure-regulator setpoints for peak simultaneous flow. SOIL & CLIMATE RUN-TIME CARDS Apply sand, loam, or clay factors and a seeded climate-band monthly ET baseline (manual band picker—no live weather required) to convert peak crop inches into minutes-per-zone cards you can star, reorder, and export as multi-page PDF for the field phone or print shop. MATERIALS TAKEOFF & SUPPLY CHECKLIST Roll up tape feet into standard roll counts. List tees, elbows, couplers, tubing, stakes, filters, regulators, and backflow notes with quantities. Toggle checklist mode for the farm-store run and share the list as PDF or plain text. FITTING & HEADER REFERENCE BAY Offline illustrated guide to poly barbs, compression tees, flush valves, air vents, and simple header sketches so crew can match parts without a catalog. Deep-link from any takeoff line into the matching fitting card. DESIGN COMPARE DESK Save two layout variants side by side (for example, 0.4 GPH dense greens vs 0.6 GPH fruiting block) with charts comparing total GPM, tape feet, and weekly water volume so you pick the cheaper even-coverage option before purchase. HOME SCREEN WIDGET Pin the active site’s next zone name and computed run minutes on the Lock or Home Screen for quick field glances without opening the full app. Built so you turn bed measurements and crop water classes into zone-ready drip layouts, hydraulic checks, pump matches, shopping quantities, and run-time cards—buy the right tape once and water evenly without guesswork. Seeded crop, tape, fitting, soil, and climate-band libraries stay on device for offline design sessions.