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RE: Simple Watering Solution For The Garden
Those soaker hoses work really well if you have water pressure to push the water out of the hose. I would imagine that you're using well water for the garden, so pressure isn't a problem. With a rain water gravity system like mine, there's not enough water pressure to push the water through the porosity of the soaker hoses.
Just thought if chime in that some drip drip systems need only 2 or even 1 psi, that's about 2-4 feet elevatin needed. We have used drip emitters on 1/2" poly tube with success on our system where the cistern only has about 5 feet of height on gardens.
My current system uses 1/2 inch PVC water pipe with a 1/16th inch hole drilled in it every 6 inches in a straight line. It works well with gravity feed, but the pipes need to be fairly level or the water all goes to the low end of the pipe... :-)
I wondered about pvc pipe... even with the soaker we get uneven distribution but I took a wide diameter needle to the low end where each plant is and that has solved the problem for now. It’s probably not a forever fix but should help to keep things watered as they should be until we get our ideal system going.
That's actually a pretty good idea for spots on the hose where it's not putting out much water.