MileHigh, I assume you were having troubles with the weep everywhere hose; if so you might want to check out the preformed "soaker hose" which the drip irrigation places sell. This is different than the hoses of the same name at the big box stores which weep over their entire surface. They are solid PE hose with an emitter installed at regular intervals (1' up to 3'). The emitters are pressure compensating, so you can vary the elevation of the hose and still get even coverage. I have found that this type of drip and the T-tape type works much better than the big box weeps everywhere stuff. (you will need a filter and pressure regulator with these emitter hoses) Regardless of what type of emitters/hose, you will need to calculate the flow and pressure of the hose or other water source feeding the system. You need to be sure you can feed the system with the flow it needs at the pressure it requires. Simple math if you are using the drip emitters but for the weep everywhere hoses you probably need a pressure gauge in the system that you can read to figure out how much length your source can support.

Your garden is beautiful so great, I loved your explanations very easy to understand. Best of luck with your wonderful garden. I have been thinking about doing this myself I did stock up in the weed block cloth at the end of the season last year. Please keep us posted on how well it works for you. We have had a record breaking winter this year I am so ready for Springtime, and Summer.

That Hunter Time Clock you used is a very nice item. I installed one about 5 months ago for the first time on a job. We rarely use battery operated clocks for my business but for a home owner who doesn't want to mess with electrical it is a very nice item. Easy to use. I vastly prefer pvp pipe with micro spray outlets over leaky pipes and poly pipes. Really good poly pipe is OK but most of the stuff on the market is only good for a few years. The sun likes to eat it up. If anyone is going to do a system like this be sure you use the heavy SCD 40 pipe over the thin stuff. UV rays eat PVC pipe and make it brittle, the SCD 40 simply by being thicker resists this better. Tom

tulsacityfarmer, I start out with about 44lbs. of pressure. The pressure will drop with each hole you have in your pvc system. The most pipe I could run ( feeding thru a 5/8 hose) was about 150 ft. The more slope you have the less pvc pipe you can run. ( I like running about 80 to 100 feet at a time) At the old house I ran a 3/4" line from the well to the garden which gave me much more flow, and I could run more more feet of irrigation tubes. My system is glued together. I started out using my system about 7 or 8 years ago and it is not all the same because I experimented as I started using it. I started out with high pressure and just using the tubes in areas where disease was a problem, I also tried using 40 and 50 foot tubes with holes drilled from 8 to 15 inches apart. I moved into the house I live in now about 4 years ago and my garden is much small now because I have very hard tight soil, plus now I have to buy my water. I think you will find that with about 45 lbs of line pressure you can feed approx 300 1/16 dia holes, at that time you have dropped to well under one pound of pressure. If your lines are not some what level you wont be getting satisfactory flow in all areas. You can increase the flow by using ball valves with larger opening in your feed line. I have tried running the tubes above and below the mulch and I think I like above the mulch better because if I have the holes in the side or top of the tube I can see if I have a hole plugged and the mulch breaks down faster if it stays damp. I know this is a lot more than you ask for, but I get carried away some times. I think you will fine that all our systems are a little different, but all get the job done. The largest problem you will face is too much slope on your tubes. In some cases I have driven stakes along the row and ties the tubes to it to make them more level. Otherwise you will have a 1/2 inch high stream at one end of the tube and a 6 inch high stream at the other. Larry