Gardens need water and gardeners need a convenient place to get the water. Seems simple enough but these days plumbers refuse to extend household water lines out into the yard due to their overriding concern for "freeze protection." "Oh no, we can't be doing that 'cause it will freeze up!" they say. So it was up to my undergardener to figure out a hose spigot actually somewhere IN the garden. Without hideous trenching and crawling under the house, he just used a 50' hose from a house spigot out to the corner of the garden. He attached the hose to a pipe using a coupling and a quick disconnect so we could disconnect the hose and drain the pipe in the winter. The pipe is attached to a raised bed and has a nice valve at the top. Works well and now I don't have to haul watering cans from the house to the garden! That's why I keep him around... and besides, he does a mean tango!
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