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Very Slow Pump for bog garden
The web is loaded with cheap high-volume pumps for ponds and many
things. Well, I have that. What I don't have is a pump for my new project: a small bog garden. I want a pump with delivery measured in gallons (just a few) per day, not gallons per minute or hour. The best I can come up with is very specialized "metering" pumps that cost several hundred dollars. I realize there isn't much call for this sort of thing, but it seems like somebody somewhere has such an animal. 2 gallons per day at a head of 5 to 10 feet would be lovely. I just want to keep the dirt wet. No waterfalls. No splashes. Anybody got any hints on this? Hayden |
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Very Slow Pump for bog garden
You can use a small "regular" pump if you just divert some of the water. Put
a "T" in your discharge line coming from the pump. One side of the "T" goes to your bog while the majority of the discharge goes back to the source. Add a valve on each line to refine your control. It is easy to have as little water as you want going to the bog. -- Ed wrote in message ... The web is loaded with cheap high-volume pumps for ponds and many things. Well, I have that. What I don't have is a pump for my new project: a small bog garden. I want a pump with delivery measured in gallons (just a few) per day, not gallons per minute or hour. The best I can come up with is very specialized "metering" pumps that cost several hundred dollars. I realize there isn't much call for this sort of thing, but it seems like somebody somewhere has such an animal. 2 gallons per day at a head of 5 to 10 feet would be lovely. I just want to keep the dirt wet. No waterfalls. No splashes. Anybody got any hints on this? Hayden |
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Very Slow Pump for bog garden
Well, I have that. What I don't have is a pump for my new project: a
small bog garden. I want a pump with delivery measured in gallons (just a few) per day, not gallons per minute or hour. 2 gallons per day at a head of 5 to 10 feet would be lovely. I just want to keep the dirt wet. No waterfalls. No splashes. Anybody got any hints on this? Hayden Small pump on a timer? ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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Very Slow Pump for bog garden
a hose set on trickle.
a water barrel that is filled once a week and a hose comes out at the bottom set on trickle. Ingrid On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:27:44 EST, wrote: I want a pump with delivery measured in gallons (just a few) per day, not gallons per minute or hour. 2 gallons per day at a head of 5 to 10 feet would be lovely. I just want to keep the dirt wet. No waterfalls. No splashes. Anybody got any hints on this? Hayden |
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Very Slow Pump for bog garden
How about one of those black trickle hoses?
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