We use soaker hoses on a timer in our raised beds, they run at dark and just after daylight, daily.
The orchard has an irrigation system with a .5 gpm emitter for each tree (50 trees). It's all operated manually, depending on how much rain the trees have gotten. If there's an inch or more of rain in any given week, the system stays off. If we go a week with little or no rain, it's turned on for an hour or so. The way I usually do it is to run every other row for an hour, then switch them for an hour. That way my pump isn't having to dump 25 gpm for all that time. It'll deliver 35+ gpm to the irrigation system, but why tax the pump if I don't have to?


Well behaved women never make history.~ Out back
Quit laughing...I think I broke something.

Fifteen is my limit on Schnitzen-Gruben, Baby...

I have OCD and ADD, so everything has to be perfect, but only for a minute.