Sprinklers and Drip Systems - Lisa Kessler (Sunset)

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Category: Home improvement Acquired: Christmas 2009 Read: April 2009 Briefly: How to design, build and maintain a drip irrigation system.

Comments: This is one of those 100-page how-to paperbacks that you pick up at the hardware store checkout stand. When I put it on my Christmas list last year, I was thinking about putting in a system to water our chronically-dry front garden, which sits under our eaves. Little did I know that we'd end up remodeling our whole backyard this spring, and that my first efforts at drip irrigation would actually be for the new garden beds, not the poor front garden (which is still dry).

Anyway, thanks to this book (plus a lot of advice from Kari), the system is in and working fine. You just program the timers and walk away, and everything gets its water ration right on schedule. Is this a great country or what?