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Throughout the growing season, I enjoy profiling local gardeners. Especially those who have a spectacular garden or a special skill to share with you. In today’s column, Tracy and Alan Lewis have both! They explained how they set up a drip irrigation system as an add-on to their existing sprinkler system. Here’s a link to it: Drip system need not […]
Read morePhoto #1: Getting ready to swap out the old T Tape for Aqua Traxx Last year, my husband and I installed a new irrigation system on our raised beds. We’ve used soaker hoses on each bed for years but they frequently clogged with minerals, which reduced the amount of water coming out of them. We felt it was time to […]
Read morePhoto #1: drip irrigation Continuing our discussion (see previous post) of the new drip tape system we recently installed in our garden, I wanted to show you what we did on one of our 3′ x 8′ raised beds. Photo #1 shows the supplies we needed: 1/2″ tubing to make the manifold, 1/2″ figure-8 ends to seal off each end […]
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