I still hate sprinklers 2016

The reason I was anxious for Peter to find the missing sprinkler line was that I wanted to get water into the raised garden bed I installed 4 years ago. I have tried to get things to grow by hand watering but I'm on the road so much that it hasn't worked.

 I had Peter and Kevin dig the new trenches. Yesterday afternoon I started to install the new line. Of course, even though I have 5 bins of sprinkler parts I only had one 3/4" elbow so I had to go to the hardware store to buy sprinkler parts. Luckily my glue and primer were still good. Usually I have to buy new bottles every spring.

I finally got the lines all in but before I buried the lines I wanted to make sure everything worked. I went to the controller and activated the line I thought I was connected to but there was no water. I tried 3 other lines with no luck. I was about to start digging to see if I was really attached to the main line when occurred to me that the sprinkler heads were adjustable and might just be turned off.

I was right, both sprinkler heads were in the off position. A little twisting of the head and a trip back to turn on the line and there was water. It will be interesting to see how these work out and whether plants in the raised bed grow better this year.