Frank, I know what you mean about hanging on the end of a hose in the heat, but that's what I do. My garden's about 9,000 square feet, I plant the rows 4' apart, and I water with one of the high volume, low pressure wands on the hose and just walk up and down the rows. It serves a couple of purposes: (1) I water right in the row, not between the rows, so I use less water - I'm having to buy mine, and (2) not watering between the rows keeps down the grass and weeds. A neighbor has a pump and line from one of his stock tanks, so he just uses a sprinkler; one of those with the spike that sticks in the ground and the sprinkler head on top is about 2 feet off the ground. Problem is that he grows as much grass as anything else in his garden.

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