{"id":113,"date":"2009-05-27T07:05:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T15:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/?p=113"},"modified":"2009-05-27T07:05:31","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T15:05:31","slug":"garden-watering-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Garden watering system"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_115\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-115\" title=\"img00197\" src=\"http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img00197-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Garden with drip lines\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img00197-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img00197-1024x819.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img00197.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garden with drip lines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over the Memorial Holiday, I finished installing an automatic watering system for the new garden. I planted Indian corn in the back row, and Cindy will be sowing some seeds in the other rows (hopefully today). I mixed in some garden soil into the rather clay-like soil, so we shall see if things actually grow. The most difficult part was digging the trench from the back of the house over to the wall. \u00a0It is only about 25 feet, but the ground is so hard that it takes a <em>lot <\/em>of effort to dig. \u00a0I had to presoak the ground which helped, but it was still hard.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_116\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-116\" title=\"img00198\" src=\"http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img00198-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Finished trench\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img00198-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img00198-1024x819.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img00198.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finished trench<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the finished trench where it meets the house. \u00a0Luckly for me, there was a previous sprinkler from a time long past, so I was able to just use the outlet from the existing gate valve and run that over into the trench. \u00a0It is only a matter of time before the kids somehow manage to break that PVC pipe, so I want to put some backing underneath it. \u00a0On the other hand, maybe they will not mess with it. \u00a0Lucky thinking.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_114\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-114\" title=\"img00199\" src=\"http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img00199-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Supply side\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img00199-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img00199-1024x819.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img00199.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supply side<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The next picture is a close up of the supply line from the hose outlet. There is a few inches of clearance below the pipe. \u00a0I also need to do something to prevent the sunlight from damaging the pipe. \u00a0I think a nice paint job of the sage house color should help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the Memorial Holiday, I finished installing an automatic watering system for the new garden. I planted Indian corn in the back row, and Cindy will be sowing some seeds in the other rows (hopefully today). I mixed in some garden soil into the rather clay-like soil, so we shall see if things actually grow. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/?p=113\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Garden watering system&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[29,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}