Watering

Pumpkinguy:

I appreciate your watering reply. Part of my problem relates to the fact that
whatever I purchase has to come from a catalog. Not many are into watering
systems around here. My garden I want to put a new system into is only about
50 feet by 50 feet. I was able to get a really good buy on a 1500 gallon
plastic water tank. In fact, I have two of them. I will run water from the
roof of my house into the tanks and I have that worked out nicely using
underground lines. If I need more water, there is always the spicket by the
garage. Anyway, the problem is to get the water from the tanks to the garden.
I water once a day. My power source is electric. I will use a clock timer. The
basic question I had was relative to the pump, the water lines and the sprayer
heads. 

Once I get a good system going at my house, I have another garden with a
friend at his farm. We grow together. We have a pond right by our garden and
it is spring fed, lots of water. The garden site there is presently 6000
square feet and could be expanded. I thought once I figured out the system in
the smaller garden, I could import it to the bigger one. We are presently
using several Sears pumps and garden hose and a timer to water there and the
power source is electric. Garden hose was good because we can roll it up and
put it away each year. Needless to say, you can't roll up 2" plastic tubes.
Also it was easier to hook garden hoses togehter than to have to deal with
PVC. We used low flow Rainbird sprayers attached to the top of wooden posts at
that garden. It wasn't the best but it worked.

I appreciate your advice. I have gotten helpful suggestions from several
others as well. I need all the help I can get. I'll probably end up needing a
plumber too so I can put whatever I end up with together.

Marv in Altoona PA
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