If you cut enough slits the water should just flow out and not dig holes in the dirt. Glue on an end cap and fittings to reduce it to the size of a hose adapter. You can use anything to cut these, a hack saw, a Dremmel, most anything that can cut a narrow slice. Cut slits in a short piece of 1 1/2 or 2 inch PVC pipe, 6 to 12 inches in length. You can make your own version of this by using PVC pipe. Important if you have kids helping with the garden since those types of things seem to happen a lot. It's also big enough that it's hard to lose or run over with the mower.
It turns out it also works perfect for reducing the water pressure so it just bubbles out and flows calmly down the trench. The brass sand filter was originally designed to keep dirt from getting sucked up by the wells pump. I took an old sand filter from a well that was kicking around and various pipe fittings and adapted it to fit the end of a hose. Yet another piece of junk came to the rescue. And for those of you who are concerned about things like identity theft, nothing leaves your property, its completely gone, turned into compost.Ī problem with flood watering is that the high water pressure can actually dig up the plants. I guess they are working at being educated with all that junk mail. In addition I have noticed that my earthworm population has increased a lot. It breaks down way faster in your garden than it does in landfills and you get the benefits of the organic matter. The paper helps hold moisture in the ground and when it decays it adds nutrients to the soil. The little bit left on the surface even degrades. The Results? The shredded paper just disappears in a short time. But since recycling paper took off, the inks have been cleaned up and many are soy based and so are harmless. At one time this was a no no because the inks were lead based and there were other not so good things in the paper. So several years ago in the spring I decided to try tilling the stuff into the garden. Problem was that I was shredding way more than I was burning. So I saved bags of shredded paper for starting fires in the winter. Eventually I came up with the idea of shredding the stuff and then using it to start fires since it burns way better when cut up. The downside was that crumpling them leaves your hands all black from the ink. I also used crumpled newspapers to start fires. However things like stacks of papers and catalogs don't really burn well, you have to keep stirring them up to separate the pages so they will burn.
I used to burn up most of my junk mail and such in my wood stove in the winter.
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