Re: watering plants

Christopher P. Lindsey wrote:
........
>    This year I'm counting on the irrigation system that I'm putting
>    in to do it all.  :)  It's actually really nice, and it doesn't
>    cost much $$$.  Just lots of time.

Chris, would you mind talking in some detail about the system 
that you are designing & installing?  When you have some time to 
do it, that is.  I have got to install one.  I've been spending 
all that time on other things, but ... I'm not sure this insane 
travel schedule will be changing soon.  If I want to avoid more 
dead plants, I need to deal with it.  Need *something* to keep 
me busily out of trouble this winter. :)

I've been doing a good deal of research, but am looking for 
practical experience at this point.  Types of emitters; how to 
get the hose-runs up into wood-framed raised beds without 
causing backups or requiring excessive water pressure; faucet 
configurations of valves, backflow & flow regulators;  how to 
deal with long runs in opposite directions from a single faucet, 
and so on.  

I found a marvelous article by one man who did run a drip 
irrigation system into raised beds ... it was in an old 
Horticulture magazine from several years ago.  (I knew there was 
a good reason for being a pack rat  :)

TIA,
Jaime, who spends much of her time travelling fretting about the 
well-being of her plants.
"I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive."
 A. Einstein

jknoble@warwick.net
Z6/5, NW NJ
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