Talk:Xeriscape

Very interesting topic

There's a method I use in herb and kitchen gardening, which I wonder if any variants qualify: drip or buried irrigation of raised beds. I use two methods, one for the high-intensity 2x4 beds I put on sawhorses to save my back, and deeper beds at ground level. Not so much the watering, but my key reference for raised beds is Square Foot Gardening.

On the high-intensity beds, I put drip watering tubes under mulch. These are quite small in diameter. For the deep beds, I will use a combination of mulched and buried drip tubes -- these are usually the ones made from recycled rubber tires, while the waist-level use drilled small rigid or flexible plastic tubing.

The local water people in Virginia told me they were quite happy with this other than in the worst-level water emergency, but to assume that the intermediate water restrictions didn't apply. Incidentally, I can fertilize through these as well. Howard C. Berkowitz 19:58, 2 October 2010 (UTC)