electraus
Yamadori
Hey everyone! I will be going in and out of town for varying amounts of time over the next few months, so I’m trying to put together an automated irrigation system, but the caveat is that I live in an apartment and do not have access to a hose faucet.
I have honestly been losing my mind because I had no idea how I was gonna pull this off until I remembered that water pumps exist. I don’t have a crazy amount of trees at the moment but all are in (mostly) aggregate soil, so a drip system is pretty much out of the question. I would need to use those little sprinkler heads that you stake into the soil.
I am just about the least handy person on the planet, so while I can conceptualize this in my head, I have no idea how to actually execute. I don’t even really know what most of the parts that I need in order to put this together are called, so I have a few questions:
1) how powerful of a pump would I need to pull this off? My balcony is about 12 feet long and 10 feet wide. There are shelves lining the entirety of the front and sides.
2) there will be a few instances where I’ll be gone for up to 2 week periods at a time, so for the sake of not running out of water and needing to buy a super powerful pump, I assume it would be a better, more budget friendly idea to buy 2 or 3 smaller, less powerful pumps/water reservoirs than just one giant reservoir and a beast of a pump (?)
3) can someone provide a list of the names of the parts I’ll need for this and maybe give me a rough idea of how to actually execute this and/or point me to a reliable resource?
I feel like I remember seeing a post on here where someone detailed their step-by-step process of creating an irrigation system with the small staked in sprinklers and tubing like I’m trying to do, but I can’t find it and I’m pretty sure they had access to a hose faucet.
Bit of a long post, so thanks for reading through. Any and all advice/help would be greatly appreciated!
I have honestly been losing my mind because I had no idea how I was gonna pull this off until I remembered that water pumps exist. I don’t have a crazy amount of trees at the moment but all are in (mostly) aggregate soil, so a drip system is pretty much out of the question. I would need to use those little sprinkler heads that you stake into the soil.
I am just about the least handy person on the planet, so while I can conceptualize this in my head, I have no idea how to actually execute. I don’t even really know what most of the parts that I need in order to put this together are called, so I have a few questions:
1) how powerful of a pump would I need to pull this off? My balcony is about 12 feet long and 10 feet wide. There are shelves lining the entirety of the front and sides.
2) there will be a few instances where I’ll be gone for up to 2 week periods at a time, so for the sake of not running out of water and needing to buy a super powerful pump, I assume it would be a better, more budget friendly idea to buy 2 or 3 smaller, less powerful pumps/water reservoirs than just one giant reservoir and a beast of a pump (?)
3) can someone provide a list of the names of the parts I’ll need for this and maybe give me a rough idea of how to actually execute this and/or point me to a reliable resource?
I feel like I remember seeing a post on here where someone detailed their step-by-step process of creating an irrigation system with the small staked in sprinklers and tubing like I’m trying to do, but I can’t find it and I’m pretty sure they had access to a hose faucet.
Bit of a long post, so thanks for reading through. Any and all advice/help would be greatly appreciated!