please recommend outdoor hose bib
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hose end timer advice please
Comments (22)Morpheuspa mentioned water hammer being a problem for him with the Orbit unit, it was for me too. I have pretty bad water hammer already from my washing machine, but it was a bit worse with the sprinkler valves. So I found a couple of cheap (12 bucks) Oatey "Quiet Pipes" arrestors and a pair of caps to close them off, and just attached them to the two unused valves on my manifold, opened those valves, and water hammer is totally gone. Maybe one would be fine and two are not needed, but I bought two so that I can reinstall them on my washing machine permanently when I take the sprinklers down. Makes me feel better about leaving the house with the timer on, just thought I'd mention this cheap fix in case someone else out there has scary water hammer like mine....See MoreDrip irrigation or soaker hose?
Comments (28)I use both. We have a large property. The bamboos are rather thirsty plants and do better with soaker hoses. My garden beds are densely planted - drippers are not a viable solution - if something were to go wrong, it would be a nuisance hunting for the source of the problem. So soakers go in there too. I use drippers for containers and also for spot irrigation of plants that are isolated from the main beds. Some of my soakers have been in the ground for 10 years, and are still working fine. They are not supposed to last that long, but with annual flushing and the odd repair jobs, I have not had to buy any new soakers in the last 3 years. Do not use the tiny 1/4 inch soakers - they do not work well, clots up easily, and can't be repaired. As for the drippers, I use a type of dripper head with completely adjustable flow, from zero to up to 13 gallons per hour. Lee Valley Tools sells them as B. & D. Shrubbler Spikes, and bought in bulk packages, they are the most economical I can find - at abut 75c a piece. They are supposedly the most used drippers in commercial applications. At 30 psi of pressure, and maximum flow rate of 13 gph, it throws out a circular spray covering 360°, to a radius of as much as 2 feet. Turned down low, it acts as a slow dripper. It is this flexibility that is the next most appealing feature. I do not have to select different drippers with different flow rates for different sizes of containers - something which turn out to be a real pain with fixed flow drippers I had used previously. I use them for containers as big as the 20 gallon box to the small 1 gallon nursery containers. The adjustable flow rate also makes it simple to deal with variations in flow and drops in pressure down the main supply line. The third appeal is that it will never (and i do say never)block permanently since the spray head is controlled by a screw cap that can be removed completely for cleaning. coverage. The fourth reason I love them is that they are tough and durable. Except for about 1/2 dozen where the inlet pot has been snapped off by an over zealous gardener (me!), the 200 or so scattered in my garden are all working well inspite of neglect and occassional abuse (by my lawn mower!). The othe advantage is that it does not seem to suffer frost damage - as long as the system is well drained and the caps are then screwed on tight. They come on a 6 inch spike - which is another reason I love them - they are difficult to lose. I manage to get by with a 6 station timer. The beauty is that once set, I don't have to do anything except a weekly inspection. I also use a siphon device to feed soluble fertilisers down the line. Keep in mind that if you want to do this, make sure that you have a reliable back flow preventer valve in the circuit....See MoreEstablishing perennials beyond the reach of hoses
Comments (24)If it were easy, and things would grow just because you plopped them down on the ground, what fun would that be ? We grow to cherish the plants we worked hard to establish, right ? :) Plus, just think of all the weeds that would also flourish right over the tops of the desired plants ? Hee, no, give me semi-arid for the maintainability aspect. I know that eastern woodland climates are much much more prone to weeds. We got between 1.5 and 2 inches of rain yesterday...I'm not carrying water to the fencerow naturalization project for at least a week. And everything is so happy. Too bad I wasn't constitutionally able to plant the allium stellatum, vernonia letermani, or habranthus tubispathus...I just couldn't bear to move pots of flowering plants into the row away from the house, till they finished flowering. In about a week, I'll be ready to plant the remainder...just as the soil gets dry enough to require buckets of water again (if no more rain). Oh, and I have seedlings of coreopsis lanceolata (yes that weed), and engelmannia peristenia to plugs in...they're growing by pairs in plastic Dixie cups. I drilled a hole through the stack of cups, and they made perfect 2-3 inch pots to grow the seedlings up to potential rabbit snacks (yes, even by the house, they've nibbled and not liked). They go sometime next month...I want to get them a little bigger before they face the wild world w/o me looking at them 2-3 times a day....See MorePlease recommend a turtle filter
Comments (8)LLuvGinger: I rescue turtles and there are biological treatements (add living organisms which break down turtle waste) found at pet store... Also I use outside bio orb type filter and add hosing to end without usual tip so as to suck in water.... I make it long enough to reach bottom of tank and another underwater filter which circulates water enough so other filter with tubing can take it up.... more filtration and stronger filtration the better and again (found left over product) this one is called turtle clean - biological reduction of turtle waste by Nutrafin, but there are many tupes (replicates nature in breaking down waste, - natural organisms, and also then can be picked up by filtration easier) you can provide less agitation of water areas, with plants and rocks... I do daily bottom cleaning with hose tubing ie partial water change, but basically scooping up the pxxp and left over food, right after feeding (and after pxxping which usually comes right after feeding)...then adding conditioned water to replace... best Sherry...See Morekisu
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