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Joined: Jun 2010
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14 point
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I water my garden every other day for about 15-20 minutes. I might have to start every day since I'm losing pepper plants, cucumbers and a few others.
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8 point
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We water in the morning then lightly in the evening.
God, Country, Corps, Family, and Alabama Football.
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10 point
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Mornings, at base of plants every other day with fair weather. When it's hot I water everyday. I don't water the tops of any plants but onions.
I believe that this is a practical world and that I can count only on what I earn. Therefore I believe in work, hard work. -George Petrie (1945)
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14 point
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I use a sprinkler on mine. I could rig up a drip line but would be expensive for mine
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Puts sugar in his cornbread!
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Puts sugar in his cornbread!
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Doe
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I have used drip hoses and sprinklers; sprinklers it is for me. Early morning watering and some late to mid afternoon when temps ride high!
Be kind to one another and tell the ones you love that you love them often. We never know what tomorrow will bring.
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Old Mossy Horns
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Joined: Oct 2002
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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.
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You're actually taxing the pump more by not using it at max capacity and allowing it to cycle off and on. If your pump will maintain 35gpm at the pressure needed to run your system, that's what you need to use. Most wells that are used for irrigation have a cycle stop valve.
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![[Linked Image]](https://s9.postimg.cc/o4cksbg0f/Screenshot_20180513-065438.png) You might be a redneck if you have a sprinkler like mine.
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Old Mossy Horns
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I've got some real similar. I unscrewed the sprinkler head off the spike and put a 4' galvanized nipple in between them, then zip-tied the whole thing to T-posts. Before we installed the irrigation system in the orchard, we had 2 rows of 4 sprinklers each operating in overlapping 180° arcs, all connected with 2 hoses feeding them. Took some adjusting to get all the arcs set just right, but once they were it all worked great for the year and a half that we used them up there. I left them in place for a while, "just in case", when we finished installing the irrigation...I just took them up and pulled the posts last time I was home.
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.
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"It is not the violence that sets a man apart. It's the distance he's prepared to go."
-Forrest Bondurant-
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Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Sep 2004
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drip hoses for me, I ain't watering all the ground out there, only that right at the plant bases.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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drip hoses for me, I ain't watering all the ground out there, only that right at the plant bases. This!!^^
Two roads diverged in the woods and I took the one with deep ruts,hills and mud.It may be bumpy but WHAT A RIDE!
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