Installing drip systems could be one of the worst things to do when you are a free spirited teenager living in 115 degree weather in Arizona.  It makes life so much easier in the future as all you have to do is turn a knob or two to water our garden, but man it is a pain to install.  You first have to dig your little trenches all around the garden creating an elaborate coordinate plane type diagram around our future plants.  Then you work with yards and yards of black, rubber tubing; measuring, cutting and capping over and over again.  It was like nothing like we say on those garden websites. You also have to work with PVC piping when installing into your main water line and PVC primer and glue is some of the messiest and smelliest stuff in the world…instant sinus headache.  So if you have the money, just contract out the work; your time is worth so much more, really, it is.