- Aug 10, 2002
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Wondering if anyone in here has any ideas for me please. Ive have a veggie garden for a few years now and have been using lawn sprinklers to get the job done. When the garden is young and plants are short, I can use 2 sprinklers to get full coverage. When the gardens grows tall (I use tomato cages, grow pole beans and stake my cucumber vertically so 6 foot + plants are common, I have trouble getting full coverage as the tall plants block some parts of the garden from the sprinkler. Additionally, I have a farmer friend of mine tell me that sometimes, certain plants I grow are sensitive to watering as the pollination of the flowers an be affected by watering and results in less veggies.
Rather than add a third or more sprinklers I thought that maybe the better solution would be a different irrigation setup in the form of a soaker hose or drip irrigation or something similar.
It would be neater as I have a separate hose running to the garden for each sprinkler now. I would like to save water by irrigating only the soil surrounding the plants. Keeping the water off of plant leaves would also help certain veggies I grow too. Any recommendations here? Thanks...
Rather than add a third or more sprinklers I thought that maybe the better solution would be a different irrigation setup in the form of a soaker hose or drip irrigation or something similar.
It would be neater as I have a separate hose running to the garden for each sprinkler now. I would like to save water by irrigating only the soil surrounding the plants. Keeping the water off of plant leaves would also help certain veggies I grow too. Any recommendations here? Thanks...