Re: Tall sprinklers?
- Subject: Re: Tall sprinklers?
- From: Deborah Lindsay c*@yahoo.com
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:14:11 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Nan,
I remember seeing something that might work on a
website-try a google search for Lee Valley Tools and
for Charlie's Greenhouse.
its one or t'other
Deborah
--- Nan Sterman <nsterman@plantsoup.com> wrote:
> Happy summer gardening to the northern hemisphere
> medit gardeners
> (and winter gardening to southern folks). I have a
> question this
> morning:
>
> My garden is irrigated by drip which I absolutely
> love. The only
> drawback is that leaves accumulate dust and dirt,
> especially in our
> dry summers. The film makes a great habitat for
> mites and other tiny
> critters whom I don't want in the garden, so I like
> to rinse the
> leaves once or twice in the summer. I typiccally
> use an oscillating,
> hose-end sprinkler that gets moved throughout the
> garden (it takes a
> couple of days to get everything).
>
> Trouble is, these ground-based sprinklers have a
> hard time spraying
> water high enough to rinse leaves from above. I
> often set the
> sprinkler on a chair or an inverted trash can, just
> to raise the
> level of the spray but what would be great would be
> some kind of
> sprinkler with a telescoping base. Ever heard of
> something like
> that? I've searched the interent and my local
> stores to no avail.
> If anyone has a suggestion, I'd be very much
> appreciative.
>
> Best
>
> Nan
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