Oh, I can't claim credit for this idea, although I like it, too. And you're certainly welcome to it.
When I first started vegetable gardening, I read advice about using drip irrigation systems (more money than the gardening budget allows) and soaker hoses (better, but they have some chemical drawbacks) and finally I thought, "What if we bury, connecting where we have to, drinking water safe PVC pipes with holes drilled in them, pretty deep in the beds. And at the ends or every so many feet or at the "corners," we could add a vertical pipe via a T-connector to get water down there; we could even pour water down the vertical pipe/s." The plan was to pour, if I were pouring, three or four gallons of water in one go from a five-gallon bucket. (Need a big funnel? Cut off the bottom of a one-gallon jug as long as the neck will fit into the pipe, and if not, a 2-liter bottle should do the trick. And, I thought about our very loose soil getting into the pipes and thought maybe I'd have to sew up "sleeves" of that weed barrier landscape fabric. I nixed my plan, though, after I read about how much damage we do to the soil when we dig, double-dig, trench or otherwise disturb the soil; wish I'd done it before I found out, you know? Anyway, the sleeves, the connectors, funnels, everything---all moot at that point.
If you're going to be hammering the pipe into the ground, it's recommended that you cut the downward end on a slant, maybe 50°, maybe 60, so you're driving a wedge-end and not a flat, blunt terminus. But take your soil into consideration.
Oh, and I never once thought on my own of using this for ornamentals, such as roses, until I happened to see this very hack, maybe in the Old Farmer's Almanack and the illustration showed it being used with a rose bush.
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When I first started vegetable gardening, I read advice about using drip irrigation systems (more money than the gardening budget allows) and soaker hoses (better, but they have some chemical drawbacks) and finally I thought, "What if we bury, connecting where we have to, drinking water safe PVC pipes with holes drilled in them, pretty deep in the beds. And at the ends or every so many feet or at the "corners," we could add a vertical pipe via a T-connector to get water down there; we could even pour water down the vertical pipe/s."
The plan was to pour, if I were pouring, three or four gallons of water in one go from a five-gallon bucket. (Need a big funnel? Cut off the bottom of a one-gallon jug as long as the neck will fit into the pipe, and if not, a 2-liter bottle should do the trick.
And, I thought about our very loose soil getting into the pipes and thought maybe I'd have to sew up "sleeves" of that weed barrier landscape fabric.
I nixed my plan, though, after I read about how much damage we do to the soil when we dig, double-dig, trench or otherwise disturb the soil; wish I'd done it before I found out, you know? Anyway, the sleeves, the connectors, funnels, everything---all moot at that point.
If you're going to be hammering the pipe into the ground, it's recommended that you cut the downward end on a slant, maybe 50°, maybe 60, so you're driving a wedge-end and not a flat, blunt terminus. But take your soil into consideration.
Oh, and I never once thought on my own of using this for ornamentals, such as roses, until I happened to see this very hack, maybe in the Old Farmer's Almanack and the illustration showed it being used with a rose bush.