Steve Griffins explains the drip irrigation system that he designed and installed for Our Garden Wednesday, May 2, 2012 in Walnut Creek, Calif. (Dan Rosenstrauch/Staff) Show Caption of Expand ...

Our vegetable garden uses a series of soaker hoses in the beds, hooked up to a buried line that connects to a hose bib. The hose bib is on a timer so I don’t even have to remember to turn it on.

A gentle, lightweight soaker hose is great for consistent watering across large lawns, flower beds or vegetable gardens. The rust-resistant cap allows multiple hoses to connect for an even longer ...

¾” PVC pipe (in a enough length to reach your beds) Fittings to assemble it PVC glue and activator On-off valves Male and female hose ends One soaker hose for each bed you want to water.

But I’m also a big fan of soaker hoses, as they’re a wonderful tool for efficient, water-saving irrigation. If you’re no longer a rubber-lubber, may I suggest a relatively new alternative: a ...

Last week, we talked about watering your lawn and garden, and mentioned drip irrigation and soaker hoses. Let’s look at them a little more this week.

Critics of this poor man’s drip irrigation observe that the hoses rarely have the same pressure throughout, so if you spread the hose to water a long hedge, the plants may grow to be shorter at ...

The vegetables will be alive when [Dillon Nichols] returns from vacation thanks to this automatic watering controller that he built. This is the second iteration of the project, and deals mainly wi… ...

Soaker hoses are the most basic of drip-irrigation systems: They’re flexible, often fabric-covered hoses with little holes in them that water near the base of the plant.