Irrigation

I wonder why I am so proud of myself when I get my irrigation hooked up? I buy fittings and distribution line, etc. and then I sit there and think and think. It takes me SO LONG to finally cut the first  length of distribution tubing.
A couple days ago I fished in the 1/4" tubing into my potted vegetable garden on my patio. I didn't think ahead to put the length of tubing in first and then fill the dirt up around it. So, I got a length of wire and had to poke it in up through the bottom of the pot through the drainage hole and pull the tubing up along behind. I hooked it up to a circle of 1/4" soaker hose. I didn't like the idea of using a little spray emitter because I thought if it hit the stems and leaves of some of the plants growing in the pot then the water wouldn't be distributed evenly. It's probably weird that things like that bug me but anyway, I like how it turned out.

Yesterday I hooked up my in ground vegetable garden. I agonized over this as well. I decided to go with soaker hoses. They actually fit quite well into 5/8" fittings even though the soaker hose was 1/2".