With six gardens in service, it’s a lot of time to unfurl the hose from the garage through the gate and water the gardens a few times a week. Additionally, the greenhouse could really use electricity with an oil heater during the colder months and fan during the hotter months.
To do this properly, would require a permit to run electrical to a structure and a sprinkler-like water feed to the garden area with a back flow device. An option I considered after doing some research was to burry a pipe and draw an extension cord and hose to bring these in a non-permanent way.
I tested a few options and a two inch PVC pipe was large enough to feed both the hose and plug of a cord through. This also meant I had to get a two inch pipe under the sidewalk.
The pipe was buried about ten inches under ground and I minimized to 45 degree turns in the layout to the greenhouse. I used a rope to pull both the hose and extension cord through the pipe. I feel I got lucky with no crimps in the hose.
Total cost of the project was $225:
- 2" PVC Pipe = $60
- PVC Glue = $10
- Can of Black Spray Paint = $8
- 100’ Hose = Already had it
- 100’ Extension Cord = $80
- 100’ Nylon Rope = $14
- 2.5” Boring Bit = $36
- Bit Adaptors = $5
- Grass Seed = $12