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Ryland · 05-30-12, 10:49 PM

I have soaker hose on my rain barrels as well with a 2 foot drop giving a fraction of a PSI of pressure and it works great! I use the soaker hose that is a course rubber instead of having holes in it so the water seeps out.
I also have a mechanical timer that works well, but I tend to leave the soaker hose on over night, a single stretch of it empties out 100 gallons over the course of 6-8 hours, so not very fast but enough to keep the soil moist.

If you have a lot of trees, then the heads that you install in a larger soaker hose seems like the way to go, that way you get a head or two next to each tree.

Bottom line is, what you are wanting to do has been done and it works well with off the shelf stuff.

05-30-12, 10:49 PM	#6
Ryland Master EcoRenovator Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Western Wisconsin. Posts: 913 Thanks: 127 Thanked 82 Times in 71 Posts	I have soaker hose on my rain barrels as well with a 2 foot drop giving a fraction of a PSI of pressure and it works great! I use the soaker hose that is a course rubber instead of having holes in it so the water seeps out. I also have a mechanical timer that works well, but I tend to leave the soaker hose on over night, a single stretch of it empties out 100 gallons over the course of 6-8 hours, so not very fast but enough to keep the soil moist. If you have a lot of trees, then the heads that you install in a larger soaker hose seems like the way to go, that way you get a head or two next to each tree. Bottom line is, what you are wanting to do has been done and it works well with off the shelf stuff.