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Hey, I gotta bunch of plants coming in. We gotta get some water out here. It's time to
lay some pipe. They say an eco-friendly house can't be built in 150 days for $150,000, and
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with the Garden Home Challenge, exclusively on eHow Home. John, it looks like you're underway
with it. Yes, sir. What are we doing here? Oh, I'm figuring out my zones on what zones
are gonna cover what areas. Okay. Now we talked about the front here being zone 1 -- does
it not go all the way over here? Is that what you're thinking? Yes, so it'll go all the
way over to the hedge row. Yep, yep. And then in here, this is the zone -- is this gonna
be 3 and 4 over here? This is gonna be zone 2, this will be zone 1. Ah, right, right.
Splitting the walkway in the front. Okay, sure. And then in this zone, zone 2, we'll
have, this is where we'll have the drip irrigation in the raised beds? Yeah, so we'll have a
drip irrigation to prevent watering on the foliage and being able to get better saturation
on the dirt. Yeah. Good, good, good. Of course, the downside with that is that the drip irrigation,
I guess, those pipes running through there were prone to cut. Correct. Digging in the
beds. And also, drip irrigation will stop up. So I guess you're just following the zones
all the way around to the back, is that right? Yes, the starting point of the main will be
here in this back corner. Okay, right, just by the back porch here. And we come on around,
this is zone 5 and 6. And 7 being the last zone up at the road. Okay, and so you'll irrigate
these Boxwoods and the Vitexs and the roses all in 7. Correct. Okay. Let's take a look
at what you've done. Looks like you're underway with it. Okay. John, it looks like you're
making some pretty good progress along here, being zone 1. Yes. So this particular zone
will, when it comes on, will cover from the hedge over here, all the way over to the other
side near that wall. No, to this side of the walkway right here. This side of the walkway,
right. Okay, alright. And that'll cover zone 1. And then when we move over here, which
is zone 2, you'll have a valve over here, I guess. Yes, both valves will be together
in one valve box at the corner of the house. And, of course, our drip lines will be in
these four raised beds for growing a few veggies. Of course, the amount of water that you apply
at any given place kinda depends on what's planted there, isn't it? Correct. You know,
you would wanna water in different amounts from grass versus hydrangeas. Yeah, or azaleas
or something like that really like a lot of water. Correct. Right. So this is a standard
size lot, 50x100. What do you think this would cost, John, if somebody was installing it?
At a 7-zone system, I would say probably around $3,000. There'd be any way to do it with fewer
zones, you think? Fewer beds would be fewer zones. If I hadn't got so carried away with
the plants? Well, it's really looking good, John. You're making some progress. If you're
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