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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> 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.

So you, too, oversize pipe. I wonder what percentage of us do. I ran  
two-inch up to the barn, from whence it will go up the hill to a  
storage tank for gravity feed. I am right now studying sizes and  
capacities. While I typically oversize on the theory of bigger is  
better and who knows if one forgot to take some factor into  
consideration and who knows what future use might change the  
requirements, I am about to install about six hundred feet of pipe  
which, plus fittings and about a dozen hydrants, which adds up to a  
fair piece of change, so I am doing a bit more research with an eye  
to not going too far overboard.

At: http://www.irrigationtutorials.com/sprinkler22.htm I just learned  
that Schedule 40 has a wall thickness that diminishes capacity.