Georgia Gardening: Dry Areas, 2 by kdfisher

kdfisher wrote:
Progress report. Definitely needs some tweaking but I'll have water this year where I didn't have it before. Guy at Ace Hardware talked me into this gas powered pump and attaching standard garden hoses with several Y connections and sprinklers along a line of about 150 feet. I wanted easy remember? He claims it works great for his fruit trees with six sprinklers, but I need to make improvements to the idea.

It's supposed to provide 40 lbs pressure at 100 foot head, or 150 gallons per minute...but geez Louise I'm only getting about three gallons, probably because I need wider pipe nearer to the Y connections on top of hill. I thought it would put too much strain on the pump....but he sold me the product. I can always take it back if it blows apart. Like I said...tweaking..lot's of it. Nice learning experience.

Btw, the first pic is an area not shown before. New garden areas that gets extremely dry in the summer. Oodles of trailing petunias are ordered.

Second pic is the creek area with pump.



This message was edited Apr 15, 2012 6:06 AM