Automated watering setup?

[Roberta]

Originally Posted by farley101

What kind of sprinklers would be recommended? I have an oscillating, several pulsating ratchet ones, a round shower type - but not sure any of those are ideal for this? I would be watering on a patio, so I don't want to have a ton of overspray if I can help it.

I used ordinary lawn-type sprinklers. You can get them with a pattern of 90 deg, 180 deg, 360 deg, or you can get, for only slightly more money, some that adjust from about 45 deg to 270 deg - so you can aim them to hit just the areas you want. I had them free-standing - there were enough sprinklers with their associated risers that the configuration was quite stable. Have fun in the PVC section of Home Depot or equivalent, gathering the "tinkertoy parts"... I found 1/2" PVC pipe worked fine. The valves are 3/4" so you need to get a pair of reducers to tie into the sprinkler pipe. Get the little tool that cuts the PVC pipe... inexpensive, makes the pipe cutting as easy as cutting paper with scissors.