Yesterday we installed a pretty thorough drip irrigation system in both the front and back yards.

The front yard has about 40 feet of soaker hose covering the flowers outside the fence (finally, watering those was quite a chore) and a dripper doohicky for each of the 10 three sisters mounds. The back yard, with its 60 feet of corn rows just has a soaker hose down the top of each row.

Watering is a lot easier now, and I this should also help with weeds because we won't have as much excess water all over the place.

Installing it was pretty easy, even with the extra effort of burying the lines in the front yard so that the only exposed bits are the drippers above the mounds. The only part that was really time consuming or terribly strenuous was trenching the 50 feet or so needed to get from the spigot in the back yard to the corn along the back fence. I had forgotten how hard packed the back yard is...but now we have water the full length of it, ready to tap into wherever we might need it!

If you're considering a drip system I highly recommend it.