Reliable Rain: A Practical Guide to Landscape Irrigation

by Stuart Straw and Howard V. Hendrix

Whether in an arid area of the country or one where water conservation is a necessity, home irrigation systems can be an efficient way of delivering water to plants. Readers learn how to choose and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561582026
• ISBN13: 9781561582020
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Taunton Press
• Length: 139 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

A great guide for your own professional irrigation system

If "practical" means "technical" then the title of this book tells you just what to expect! With sentences like, "Whether you're working with galvanized, slip PVC, or threaded PVC, you will now need a stem to connect every manifold orifice to the orifice in the bottom of each of your irrigation control vales." you can see this is not a quick reference. This book is, however, a detailed manual on evaluating, building, and installing your own garden irrigation system. It helps to evaluate your watering needs and from there follows through to offer specific plans for laying pipes, installing sprinklers, using timers, and system automation. Black and white photos and diagrams help make sense of the more technical jargon (which actually begins to sound like English about half of the way through). A very detailed and specific guide.