Light Industrial Park Proposed for Yancey Mills - Crozet Gazette
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<strong>Crozet</strong> gazette AUGUST 2008 s page 27<br />
Drought<br />
—continued from page 25<br />
gation is most practical <strong>for</strong> small<br />
plants and plants in containers; <strong>for</strong><br />
larger plants it would require a spaghetti<br />
maze of little hoses.<br />
Soaker hoses are much more commonly<br />
seen in home gardens. These<br />
hoses leak—by intent. They are<br />
porous and ooze a steady volume of<br />
water onto the soil. Like the drip<br />
system, very little water is lost to<br />
evaporation or runoff. (Sprinkler<br />
hoses are a little different from soakers.<br />
They lie flat on the ground and<br />
spray up and out to about a foot’s<br />
distance.) Soaker hoses can be buried<br />
just under the mulch if you don’t<br />
like to see black hoses snaking<br />
around your garden.<br />
One problem with doing that: it’s<br />
easy to <strong>for</strong>get the hose is there when<br />
you come along to dig a hole <strong>for</strong> a<br />
new plant. One whack with a shovel<br />
and soaker hose becomes gusher<br />
hose. Also, soaker hoses are probably<br />
easiest to use in the straight lines of a<br />
vegetable garden, less so in the more<br />
random pattern of an ornamental<br />
bed. Finally, in many applications<br />
that I’ve seen, way too little soaker<br />
hose is put down, so only a fraction<br />
of a larger plant’s roots are getting<br />
sufficient water.<br />
All this talk of hoses and soil left<br />
us no room to talk about some wonderful<br />
drought-tolerant plants! We’ll<br />
do that in the next column, just in<br />
time <strong>for</strong> fall planting. In the meantime,<br />
pray <strong>for</strong> rain!<br />
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