Irrigation system
Jimny14 Offline
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I'm planning on moving/changing the lay out of my veg beds and while I'm doing it was thinking of adding some drip/soaker hose (not sure which) irrigation.. my thoughts were irrigation hoses in each bed with an isolator valve to a hose running back to a water butt which due to the fall of the land will be at least 2-3 ft higher than tops of the beds depending how high I put the beds. 
Has anyone ever done similar, and do people think this should be enough fall to get enough pressure? Also anything I haven't thought of/recommendations of things I should add to the system?
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I’m not going to be much help. I had an irrigation system in the polytunnel for 1 season. I really didn’t get on with it. It was a dripper system connected to a tap with a fancy timer. It had 6 pipes running the full length of the bed. It worked very well didn’t have to water ever……but! It did soak the whole bed ( unsurprisingly) which meant weeds & algae ( due to Mulls unique climate (think rain forest, but cold) ) went nuts. I could never find a happy medium. So went back to watering with hose or can.
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Not a system but I experimented with weepy hoses once fed from a water butt in the gh but even though there was supposedly enough height the weepy hose never weeped.
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Jimny14 Offline
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Thanks for the replies, your comments give me so much hope.
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toomanytommytoes Offline
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There are battery powered submersible pumps which you could use to pump water from the water butts in to the irrigation system. I know Bosch does one, there may be others.
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