What a shame. You are seeing why we gardeners pay such close attention to the weather channel... To make the protection process easier, you need to be prepared with the right materials. I keep a large trash bag full of gallon milk jugs from which I have cut the bottoms out. Yesterday, as the same storm was threatening me, I put a bottle over each plant with a stake through the spout and into the ground. If the plants had been bigger, I would have used 3 gallon plastic nursery pots that I keep stacked up in the basement. I spread floating row covers over the beds of beans, using bricks and pieces of 4x4 lumber to weight it down. Our hail was only quarter size, so this was adequate. I honestly don't know if any fabric would have been adequate against softball sized...Wow. The point is to have this stuff stockpiled and easily accessible so that you can get it put out quickly and it doesn't feel like too much trouble. We have alot of time and money invested in our gardens, so it's worth it to think ahead. (Hope this doesn't sound too mother hennish. :)

I see you found the irrigation forum. My first thought was the pressure of the supply. I've one place where I could what you want and another where it probably wouldn't have enough pressure.

Hi, I just finished running water and electric to the other side of my yard, about 70' away. I dug a narrow trench about 10-12 inches deep. With my rocky ground, thats all I could manage. Most say the trench should be 18" deep. I plan on blowing out the waterline before winter so wasn't too concerned with freezing. In NH, water lines are supposed to be around 4' deep to prevent freezing, NJ maybe less. I used 3/4 black poly for the water line. I used 12/2 UF-B wire(rated for wet locations) inside a 3/4 PVC conduit for the outlet run. Both in the same trench. For the outlet you need to use a 20A GFCI outlet. The outlet should be in a weather tight box on a post. I feed my poly water line from a frost proof, anti-siphon hose spigot from the house. Tip for pulling the wire. Glue together the PVC conduit so you have a nice water tight run. Then take a piece of a packing peanut(sized a little smaller than the PVC diameter)and poke a hole in it, then tie a string to the styrofoam peanut and drop it in the PVC conduit. Take a shop vac and duct tape it to the other end. Turn on the vac and it will pull the peanut with the string attched thru the pipe. Now you have a string to pull your wire thru with. I didn't have a 100' snake around, so this worked great for me...LOL. Dave

Hi max, If you can't tell from measuring the outside diameter, just buy a 1/2", 3/4", 1" and use the one that works and return the rest. These repair couplings are not expensive. A 3/4" pvc pipe outside diameter will be a little wider than the 3/4" inside diameter and so on. If you are able to measure the inside diameter then that would the nominal size of the pipe and repair fitting. Happy DIYing. Aloha