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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Sep 10, 2007, at 6:12 PM, Marie McHarry wrote:
> I wish! What I have are hoses. And lots of connectors. It gives me
> lots of exercise before mowing.

Yes. I have hauled hoses far too many years. Seems to me that I would  
plant more and raise more with greater success if not for the hose  
hauling issue.

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. The garden slopes well, so when freezing weather arrives, the  
valve can be closed and the lower end opened to drain. I am wrestling  
with the design for the hose bibs. My beds will mostly, eventually,  
be built of ferrocement, about two feet high. So the water bib risers  
need to either be that high or be raiseable. Hm, red underline alert.  
If raiseable  and raisable are incorrect spellings, what is the word?  
Reconstruct. I wish to be able to raise the hose bibs when the beds  
are raised. There. I am thinking PVC pipe filled with concrete to be  
posts to which the hose bib standards may be clamped. I am done with  
rotting wood that needs to be replaced.

One issue is that hose bibs connect to male pipe threads. But  
irrigation pipe uses slip fittings. Anyone know of hose bibs that  
connect with slip fittings?