Subject: Re: [Homestead] Garden water infrastructure
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:17:45 -0500
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?