Another good installment to this series. I hand dug out the sod with shovels and every couple square feet would cut it all off and flip it right over where it sat. The roots dry out and there is minimal grass re-growth. There is the problem you mention with the surface level being mounded above the sidewalk surface level and mulch was falling out until I installed some edging. I personally enjoyed capping off my sprinklers too because it made it feel like "yeah these sprinklers are NOT getting used again. No more gallons and gallons of water spilling out onto sidewalks and irrigating ugly, useless grass."
Also, if you're tying into sprinkler amounts of water pressure (for example my house pressure is 80 psi and there's no pressure regulator on the sprinkler lines) with dripline, get dripline that's rated for (preferably considerably more than) that amount of pressure. The regular Home Depot kind is only rated for 60 psi, and I doubt it can actually handle that. Definitely don't get the blank tubing where you punch in the emitters yourself, which will leak around the edges or blow out. And use only compression fittings, because the others will come apart. And don't use 1/4 inch tubing because none of the 1/4 inch fittings are that strong. I usually use a filter + a 25 psi regulator before my dripline, but there's probably nowhere to put one in a parking strip.
Love this series 👏
Looking forward to the next part!!
Another good installment to this series. I hand dug out the sod with shovels and every couple square feet would cut it all off and flip it right over where it sat. The roots dry out and there is minimal grass re-growth. There is the problem you mention with the surface level being mounded above the sidewalk surface level and mulch was falling out until I installed some edging. I personally enjoyed capping off my sprinklers too because it made it feel like "yeah these sprinklers are NOT getting used again. No more gallons and gallons of water spilling out onto sidewalks and irrigating ugly, useless grass."
So grateful for this series! We’re farther West than you but have a similar park strip… You’ve got me both scheming and daydreaming.
Wearing the same shirt rn nbd
Twin, where have you been
Also, if you're tying into sprinkler amounts of water pressure (for example my house pressure is 80 psi and there's no pressure regulator on the sprinkler lines) with dripline, get dripline that's rated for (preferably considerably more than) that amount of pressure. The regular Home Depot kind is only rated for 60 psi, and I doubt it can actually handle that. Definitely don't get the blank tubing where you punch in the emitters yourself, which will leak around the edges or blow out. And use only compression fittings, because the others will come apart. And don't use 1/4 inch tubing because none of the 1/4 inch fittings are that strong. I usually use a filter + a 25 psi regulator before my dripline, but there's probably nowhere to put one in a parking strip.
You can tee off the 1/2 inch dripline with more 1/2 inch dripline to get it right to your plants.
Water it with dripline for 30-60 minutes before digging it out. It's 8,925 times faster than digging out hard, compact soil. You'll be shocked.