Joel_BC
Super Self-Sufficient
Here's a garden-water standpipe arrangement that I made. What holds things is a creosoted 6x8 post sunk about 18" into the ground. There's a main ball-valve "stop & drain" shut-off buried, with a buried pipe serving water to it - and up from the shut-off is the galvanised vertical pipe you can see, attached to the post.
There's a heat tape attached to the pipe, and we plug this into an extension cord in late fall and early spring to keep the water from becoming ice and cracking the galvanised steel parts. Tee-ing off of the pipe are a series of fittings and four ball-valves, each with a hose-end threaded fitting.
Three long hoses connect to those valves, as well as one 3-foot hose for filling watering cans and the dog watering container (the old orange kitchen pot on the ground there). The three hoses feed to our greenhouse, our salad & allium garden, and one hose leads to a roving sprinkler for decorative plants and lawn in our front yard.
The post also offers a place to attach a hose-roll bracket. We've got a little stainless-steel shelf up against the post on the opposite side for hose attachments, etc.
There's a heat tape attached to the pipe, and we plug this into an extension cord in late fall and early spring to keep the water from becoming ice and cracking the galvanised steel parts. Tee-ing off of the pipe are a series of fittings and four ball-valves, each with a hose-end threaded fitting.
Three long hoses connect to those valves, as well as one 3-foot hose for filling watering cans and the dog watering container (the old orange kitchen pot on the ground there). The three hoses feed to our greenhouse, our salad & allium garden, and one hose leads to a roving sprinkler for decorative plants and lawn in our front yard.
The post also offers a place to attach a hose-roll bracket. We've got a little stainless-steel shelf up against the post on the opposite side for hose attachments, etc.
