Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Feb 16, 2010 7:30 pm Re: Rain vs irrigation 5Feb 17, 2010 11:42 am 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: Rain vs irrigation 8Feb 17, 2010 3:00 pm Blog - http://snakedr.blogspot.com/ Build Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=12084&p=307406#p307406 Status - PCI 15/10. Things nearly done. Re: Rain vs irrigation 10Feb 17, 2010 6:03 pm Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie Re: Rain vs irrigation 18Feb 19, 2010 6:22 am nah Fu I bought it way before reading your lecture. I only hand water or, shudder, use a ol skool metal sprinker from the tank. All town water irrigation is through drippers with a bee's apendage of hand watering. To save the threat of copping one upside the head No chance you could recommend a hose connecting sprinkler that is water wise? Re: Rain vs irrigation 19Feb 19, 2010 11:00 am Eager it is set to the gentle rain mimicing setting, and I briefly upturn it to wash the leaves, and I spend the rest of the time slowly watering the dirt, then I'm doing the right thing? As good as can be done but I'd get a better nozzle. Slowly water yes, but not holding it in one spot. Keep the water moving over large areas. It means you should move around a bit as well and revisit areas of the garden several times with an application of a little bit of water. If you get a better nozzle you can do with out the upside down bizzo but try it and feel the water, you'll see what I mean There are two types i would suggest using and both are made by Gardena. I have not found a satisfactory one other than two of theirs. I will have to post a pic and find part numbers for them for you guys. Re: Rain vs irrigation 20Feb 19, 2010 12:55 pm Fu Manchu If you get a better nozzle you can do with out the upside down bizzo but try it and feel the water, you'll see what I mean I've done that before. At our old house, I had one Cocos in a small raised bed in the corner of the yard, kind of like a miniature version of the garden I have now. I regularly tried to mimic tropical conditions when watering that garden by holding the nozzle upside down; to me it is important to water trees this way because this is what rain does in nature. In fact I have always thought it better to water the foliage instead of the soil and letting the structure of the plant distribute the water to the ground in its own way as long as conditions allow it. If I have a good layer of mulch that is doing its job, the soil stays damp in between waters anyway. Here's a question - should I dump a drum of Seasol into my tank? Geoff - Decophile. Hi all I am looking to run a water line under my concrete footpath which is directly next to my home, was seeing if this is possible without cutting the entire section… 0 20191 Hi Brainstrust, I had a go at creating my own irrigation plan, keen to get some feedback. It will be run from one 750-800W pump, off 2* 5000L rain tanks. Each zone… 0 22774 Hi, does anyone have any experience with using Trex rain escape or EPDM rubber to waterproof a deck so you have dry space underneath. Popular in the US and realize that… 0 3450 |