Re: Watering

Hey Marv,

Just an aside, if you get actual irrigation style PVC like we use it has a
hook and latch that lets you move it in 20-30' sections.......the two ends
just slide together and are held with a little hook......then a pressure
sensitive gasket to seal the line.   

Trickle-EEZ is one company that handels irrigation stuff
1-800-672-4700.....although they specialize in drip equipment, they do
sprinkler too.  

Rick

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> From: Lubadub <Lubadub@aol.com>
> To: Pumkinguy@aol.com; Pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: Watering
> Date: Sunday, March 01, 1998 7:10 AM
> 
> 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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