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Re: Filtering & Soaker Hoses

In a message dated 5/29/98 11:29:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time, for-pac@cdr3.com
writes:

<< 
 You get "salt" build-up in the holes of the soaker hose (or sprinkler system
 ) and slowly (or maybe quickly) ends up clogging the holes. The smaller the
 holes, the faster the clogging. To help reduce salt build-up is to flush the
 system after fertilizing. Do the fertilizing, then open the end of the hose
 and let the water help clean out the hose/holes. That doesn't solve the
 problem, but does reduce it. 
  >>

Is it salt build-up,  or calcium carbonate?  I have hard water and get cal
carbonate spots when I wash dishes.  I wonder if the soaker hoses clog up with
that when simply watering,  and if so,  a periodic flushing with a weak acid
solution would unclog them?  (Not of course while in the garden.)  When I had
a swimming pool,  a dilute solution of muriatic acid was used to remove this
build-up of gunk precipitated from the pool water in the filtering system.
Sort of the same principle as using Lime Away in the house.

Janet.
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