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Re: soaker hoses

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At 07:33 AM 7/27/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I've been watering on an automatic overhead system and have a forest of
>weeds!  How do you all like soaker hoses?  The regular drip system doesn't
>work here because we use well water with some sediment in it.

We used soaker hoses for a couple of years and wouldn't recommend 
them.  With sediment in the water the hoses would be plugged.  We found 
that after winter storage the hoses wouldn't work, probably because they 
were plugged.  We also had trouble with them bursting.  I should mention 
that we not only used the soakers in the garden but also on the cedar 
shrubs around our property line - about  1000 feet.  It cost us a fortune 
and they didn't last.

This year we are trying a 1/2 inch plastic pipe with drip lines &  small 
sprinkler heads.   We've got the sprinkler heads attached to cedar stakes 
in the blocks.   We've spaced the stakes at  2 feet and 4 feet and 
have  360 deg. heads.   Raindrip makes a really nice filter with a very 
fine mesh inside that catches the sediment.  Seems to be working well so far.

The cost of the new system is much less that the soakers were and hopefully 
they'll make it through the winter okay.

Suzan
in sunny British Columbia


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