RE: my garden photos
I haven't had a problem with angles and curves. I don't use the sharp
degree fittings, more the larger ones. I also use 2inch pvc, so there is
some room for the hose to work thru it. Since adding those posts with
the faucets, never have a problem with a kink. I do use an air
compressor to blow out the hoses for the winter. I started doing this at
the summer place, and the hose lasts about 5 years then springs a leak.
Easy enough to replace, just connect the new hose to the old one and
pull it thru.
Since I do remove the water for the winter, I don't bury this very deep.
Maybe 6 inches under ground.
I am waiting till next year to hear Kitty's report on the sprinkler
system. I would like to do something like that but fear the winter would
cause me to replace it every spring....but like the idea of selective
areas getting watered... but I guess that means I can't be moving plants
all the time either :)
Donna
>
> Donna's suggestion is even better than what I've been doing, which is
> just securing sections of hose along the edge of borders with earth
> staples; quick disconnect at each end so I can plug the sections into
> the main hose and change watering devices. Even my really low tech
> method seems to be working better than hauling 200' of recalcitrant,
> kicking, twisting hose all over the map. Lordy do I hate hoses!
> Products of the devil's workshop.
>
> Donna are all your PVC pipe runs straight? If not, how do you handle
> curves or angles? How deep do you bury that pipe?
>
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> mtalt@hort.net
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