Hello All--
I couldn't decide whether to post this question just here or in the gardening forum, so I decided to put it in both places. I hope that is alright... :baby04:.
With that said, I was wondering if any of you might have experience/advice for this particular issue. We live in town and I have a small garden that is watered w/ city water. (Ideally, we'd like to set-up a rain water collection cistern, but w/ all the other renovations we are doing to our place right now, it just hasn't gotten done yet). This is also a very arid area so rain is not the most dependable water source.
Unfortunately, the dissolved solids in the water is sky-high and I discovered that it will clog soaker hoses. (I would be walking through my garden and see various plants wilting even though they had a hose running around their base). This year we resorted to an overhead sprinkler, but for a # of reasons it is not my preferred watering method (I don't like overhead watering if I can avoid it, plus it wastes a lot of water). I worked in a greenhouse for a couple of springs and liked their drip irrigation systems, but I have so many random plants in random places (i.e. volunteer marigolds, etc that sprout up in places of their own choosing) that I think it would be hard to run a drip to each plant that needed one. Plus, I thought the dissolved solids might end up clogging the drips....leaving me with the same problem as before.
It gets expensive buying stuff that ends up not working in my situation. I was wondering if anyone here might have experience w/ this sort of water, and with an irrigation system that works well with it. I thought about those little micro sprinklers (though this would still result in overhead watering, maybe it would save water by being more precise?), or maybe a sprinkler hose (instead of the soaker....maybe it would work because it has larger holes?).
Anyway, we have to make a trip to a larger city next week so I thought I might peruse some of the hardware, etc stores clearances on gardening supplies that are going on right now, but hoped to do so w/ some guidance
. Any and all advice is welcome! Thanks so much
!!
Erin
