2011 Garden Irrigation - Project

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Now that I have built my square foot garden area in my yard, I have found a problem with irrigation. My water faucet is located on the back of my house, and to water my garden I have to drag my hose from the back of the house, through my gravel patio, around my pavers while being careful not to hook the hose on anything. I thought it sure would be nice if I had a water faucet directly in the middle of my yard for easy access to my garden and other areas of my yard. So I did the lazy man's version, I went to Home Depot and bought a stand alone faucet, PVC elbow, 12 inch PVC pipe, and PVC hose adapter, all with threaded connections. Total cost was 10 bucks, and I put it all together using pipe dope on the threads. I took an old 4X4 post I had and placed it in the corner of my square foot garden area in concrete. I attached my 10 dollar faucet setup and my existing hose rack to the post. I bought a separate 50 ft garden hose and ran that from the back of my house to the bottom of my faucet assembly. I hid the hose by buring it under the rocks in my gravel patio and tucking it behind the pine straw in my garden area. While I could have made the connection via PVC rather than a hose, this would have required digging a trench through my garden area and my newly built gravel patio, something I didn't really want to do. Although I do have to turn on the faucet on the house first and then the one in my garden area, I really like this setup and it was very easy to do.