Duh!

15 years ago

I've been amazed for a couple of weeks at how fast the veggie garden soil has been drying up by about 9:00 am, after being drip irrigated for 2 hours every other day. This morning I went out early for some reason, decided to check it out. Well, it was DRY. So I decided to check out the system and see if it wasn't running or something. I turned it on manual, walked over, didn't see any dripping, but heard water running. Walked all the way back - busted connection. All this time it was running all right, gallons and gallons for 2 solid hours in the rear corner. Again, DUH! No wonder the peas are brown, I thought it was because of the heat. It's a wonder anything is alive.

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K8Orlando
15 years ago
Oh no! It's a good thing you found it now, but that probably doesn't make you feel any better!

Kate
pabrocb
15 years ago
I didn't see your post and just wrote about micro watering systems. I love mine, and it is driving me crazy. Boy things can
go wrong in a hurry!

Carol B.
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Truscifi
15 years ago
Bummer! At least you can fix it now.

I just discovered 2 days ago that the soaker hose through one of my beds has a crack in it. Everything up to the crack is doing great, but the rest of the bed has been really suffering. At least now I know what went wrong with my squash.
c9pilot
15 years ago
I feel your pain.
We're building a pool and they've broken all of our sprinklers and some of the neighbor's, too. We've spent hours and hours fixing and re- routing and fixing - arghhhh. Every day we'd go outside and find a new geyser. And we've been hand-watering everything on one side of the house, including a bunch of pots of stuff I bought at Green Thumb that I can't plant until they acid-wash the pavers (any day now guys).
So this morning I go out and all the front sprinklers are screwed up, so I get to dig all of them up and flush them and replace at least two - arghhh.