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ShannonG
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 Posted: 08/09/05 - 15:45 Post subject: talk me into underground sprinklers
Anyone have underground irrigation? Do you like it? Does it take a lot of water pressure?
I have to move a sprinkler 24 times to water my entire yard. So you can see why I'm asking.
We are on hard clay that is a mother to dig in. I noticed my neighbors last year had a cheesy above ground system with little hoses running everywhere and several small sprinkler heads that they stuck in the ground, but this year it's gone.
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jrjo
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 15:47 Post subject:
Grass isn't that important, is it? You're the queen of off-beat livin'. There's got to be a native landscaping scheme you can find, no?
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robp
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 15:49 Post subject:
I mow my friggin' yard enough as it is. I'll be damned if I'm gonna water it so I can mow it even more.
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ShannonG
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 15:51 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: | | Grass isn't that important, is it? You're the queen of off-beat livin'. There's got to be a native landscaping scheme you can find, no? |
I love the fact that I have as much lawn as I do. Green is good. I'm just tired of leaping up at regular intervals and dragging 250 feet of hose around.
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TriBob
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 15:52 Post subject:
| robp wrote: | | I mow my friggin' yard enough as it is. I'll be damned if I'm gonna water it so I can mow it even more. |
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ShannonG
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 15:56 Post subject:
So...you people are basically no help at all.
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 15:56 Post subject:
My weeds are green. I don't water. My friend's hubby mows.
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ShannonG
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 15:59 Post subject:
I like to think of my watering chores as providing improved vegetation for the local wildlife. I came home from a really long ride a couple of weekends ago, I was so hot and tired and I was setting up a soaker hose that I thought it would feel so good to just lie in the grass and let it mist me, I got down to my hands and knees before realizing there was an EFFING SNAKE RIGHT UNDERNEATH ME!!!!
I went inside and turned on the AC. I hope Sammy Snake enjoyed his gentle soaker hose misting.
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 16:46 Post subject:
| ShannonG wrote: | I like to think of my watering chores as providing improved vegetation for the local wildlife. I came home from a really long ride a couple of weekends ago, I was so hot and tired and I was setting up a soaker hose that I thought it would feel so good to just lie in the grass and let it mist me, I got down to my hands and knees before realizing there was an EFFING SNAKE RIGHT UNDERNEATH ME!!!!
I went inside and turned on the AC. I hope Sammy Snake enjoyed his gentle soaker hose misting. |
 
i could so pervert this though 
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cherylpf
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 16:47 Post subject:
I think watering lawns is wasteful. /ducks and runs
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jrjo
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 16:49 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | I think watering lawns is wasteful. /ducks and runs |
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 16:56 Post subject:
At this point i'm thinking about laying some oil absorb down and see if it dries out our lawn. at this point i think i see a primordial ooze forming and it's my duty to stop it's life starting capabilties before a newer and stronger life form develops and makes us extinct.
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 20:05 Post subject:
I want an inground system also but so far no money to do it.
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MissLes
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 20:30 Post subject:
I want an inground system, too, but I know it's going to be expensive and my yard will have to be ripped up to put it in. So right now I do the hose dance too. I set my kitchen timer to remind me when to go out and move it. 
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 20:39 Post subject:
Mainstream sprinklers ain't good enough? Why you gotta go incognito on the irrigation front?
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