{"id":5639,"date":"2013-12-23T20:05:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T12:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=5639"},"modified":"2013-12-27T20:22:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T12:22:39","slug":"reticulating-the-vege-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/23\/reticulating-the-vege-beds\/","title":{"rendered":"Reticulating the Vege Beds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131223-008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5578\" alt=\"20131223 008\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131223-008-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131223-008-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131223-008.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>For the last 2+years, we have been watering the vege beds with the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/20\/irrigation-pump-at-dam\/\">summer paddock sprinklers<\/a>, but the plan was always to put some drip irrigation in as it is more efficient delivering water to the root zone and reducing evaporation. \u00a0 \u00a0Brad dug a central line between the 3 pairs of beds and teed the connections into the 6 beds. \u00a0I laid the dripper pipe in an &#8220;e&#8221; in each bed. \u00a0To keep power usage down, I didn&#8217;t want to run the dam pump for the length of the watering phase, so we put a 200 litre barrel in as a header tank. \u00a0Brad also ran a separate line to the 4 citrus trees, I can alternate between the sections with the flick of a tap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last 2+years, we have been watering the vege beds with the summer paddock sprinklers, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131223-008.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5640,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions\/5640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}