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Re: Drip Irrigation

I have found that soaker hoses work great for me in my borders - even
better with connectors so that they snap onto your main hose rather than
having to screw and unscrew them. It's a lot better than never watering
because it is too hard to drag the sprinkler over. I wonder if the
emitter system might be best with rows of crops, where you know exactly
where it is laid.

Fran

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:23:56 -0700 Jeff Ball <jeffball@starband.net>
writes:
> I disagree with Lee's writing off soaker hose as not any good.  Yes, 
> it can
> be vulnerable to pressure problems if the person doesn't use it 
> properly,
> but if used properly it is much much easier than any emitter system. 
>  One
> very important point to make in this whole discussion is that any 
> drip
> irrigation system is vulnerable to the gardener's forgetting it is 
> there and
> cutting the system in two with a spade in order to dig a hole to 
> plant a new
> perennial or something.  One of the reasons I use soaker hose is 
> that it is
> cheap so every year or two when I forget and cut a line, it is no 
> biggie.
> Drip irrigation should be covered with mulch so it becomes invisible 
> to the
> gardener and after a year, the gardener can forget that it is there. 
>  I've
> used soaker hoses in my vegetable and perennial beds for 15 years 
> and find
> them much easier to work with than the emitter systems.  I favor the 
> emitter
> systems for permanent installations around shrubs and permanent 
> perennials
> that are spread out a bit and are not so vulnerable to being cut by 
> a shovel
> or spade.  For beds of plants, the soaker hose is the best for the 
> average
> gardener in my view.  I've worked with three different drip systems 
> over the
> years to test them and while they all work pretty much as 
> advertised, I find
> them to be more trouble than they are worth.
> Jeff
> 
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