[Homestead] Garden water infrastructure

Don Bowen KI6DIU don.bowen at earthlink.net
Mon Sep 10 21:17:37 EDT 2007


At 9/10/2007, you wrote:
>My goal is to have some kind of water supply in each garden bed that
>is controllable. I prefer drip irrigation and am thinking about a
>normal, high-pressure Schedule 40 one-inch line to the first bed,
>have a valve there, then go shallow with irrigation piping to the
>rest of the beds and across the main path to the other half of the
>garden.

I did something similar.  I had six 4 by 16 beds.  I ran a 2" PVC sched 40 
line down to the garden where I placed a shutoff and a hose bib on a 
tee.  From there I ran 1 in. down to the center of the beds where I teed 
off to each bed where I put a hose bib.  I could use soaker hoses or drip 
lines as needed on each bed.



Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up                       KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com


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