I’m in a gardening mood these days (too bad it’s winter). Last summer we set up a terrific irrigation system that did wonders during our unusually dry summer. It cost us nothing— no cost for even the water. However, there are a few limitations for some folks. One is, you need to have a sump pump in your basement. Two, you need that sump well to fill enough to make the sump pump operate. If you have a dry basement, this tip will not work for you. But the good news is that I will have another tip for cheap irrigation coming soon.
We have a sump pump (two, actually– we’ve got a lot of water here) and we run a couple of pipes out to the catch basin by the street. In the summer, we use black flexible pipe (it’s corrugated and very thin), and we divert the pipe to the vegetable garden in the backyard. Of course, if we just dumped all that water, our garden would soon be flooded. However, my husband drilled holes into the corrugated black pipe. So when the pump goes on, the water squirts out of these holes and is dispersed into the garden beds– kind of like a sprinkler effect. we do not have to spend any money on our municipal water supply to water our garden.
Fri, Jan 18, 2008
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