On 4/6/2011 9:25 PM, EVP MAN wrote:

Hi Bob They figure the average veggie garden needs an inch or so of
water each week. 2 1/2 gallons of water per plant is roughly that much
needed inch. I put a rain gauge in my garden which helps me calculate
how much water to give my plants each week. Last season I used soaker
hoses but not again! My crop was great but since I'm on a water meter,
my water and sewer bill was very high. This season I will be using an
empty gallon milk jug and watering each plant by hand. Since I'm
interested in experimenting with dry farming, this will give me much
better control as to how much water each plant will get. The section of
garden I plan to dry farm, will get less than 1/2 inch of water a week
after the fruit sets. But then again mother nature also plays a big
role in this. We could get a storm that dumps a huge amount of water on
the garden in a very short period of time!

Rich



I think this might be the same brand drip hose that I used (but probably
not the same company I ordered from)
http://www.wateryourlandscape.com/dripirrigation/products/driptape

I ran about eight or ten 100' lengths in parallel all at the same time
easily from a water faucet -- and that's with a 15 psi pressure
regulator followed by a valve to adjust the flow rate and give a working
pressure of about 8 psi. It uses much less water than soaker hoses, and
it delivers about the same amount of water from one end of the row to
the other. Soaker hoses dump most of the water at the head end of the
row, and the far end gets starved.

-Bob