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Re: How to ease water chores in the heat of summer

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Steve- I used my old soakers from years past and did something similar- but
they are 5/4 inch  and really too big to wind around the plants easily-( no
way is mine a work of art tho- more like hillbilly haven!) -I am thinking
that the 1/2 inch would work better- be more pliable- also saw some 1/4 inch
that I wonder if anyone has used.. Would have done more of custom fitting
hoses but was not able to find the fittings for the 3/4 soakers anywhere. So
do some hand watering  to fill in the gaps. They are on their last legs so I
will start over and do it right next year.My father is a died in the wool
drip system user. His soultion to the problem of the tips getting
logged( which seems to be the biggest complaint I hear) is to sink a tin can
with holes punched into the bottom- into the ground beside each plant and
position the heads over the can so they don't touch the dirt. His garden
looks great -altho it is not square foot. -Teri
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Johnson <sjohnson@metronet.com>
To: <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: How to ease water chores in the heat of summer


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> > Yesterday I was in Walmart and saw that you can buy bulk footage of
> > irrigation hose in hundred foot packages, they sell the fittings and
> > couplings separately. It doesn't look to hard to set up
> > either............tinker toys for adults, LOL! Hand the project over to
> > a twelve year old with a promise of a new game boy cartridge for
> > completion, it will be done in no time and probably done very well too.
> >
>
> This is the approach I took (bulk hose and package of fittings)
> combined with a little "southern ingenuity" using some 1/2 pvc and
> fittings to make a nice T split from water source and up over the
> edge of each 12 inch tall raised bed. (My neighbor calls it "a work
> of art").
>
> One word of advice, the fittings that you use to attach the irrigation
> hose together are easy to fit together but impossible to remove...so
> take a moment to make sure you have it laid out the way you want
> before you fit the hoses together.
>
> Steve
>
>
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