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Hi people

I wasn't 100% sure where I should post this but as it affects my veg patch, here seems a good place. Living in hungary, I need to water my veg patch for them to survive the dry hot summer. I've started to water the patch using my house water, which is from a well. The patch is located about 60m from the house tap and using the long hose causes a pressure drop and stops the sprinklers from rotating.

I do have a traditional well (like this http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... runnen.jpg) closer to where I would like to water and I was wondering if it would be possible to pump the water from well. I, however, know nothing about wells, pumps and was wondering if people could point me in the right directions. The internet is too full of information, can I please borrow some of yours ?

Ta

Andy

I had exactly the same problem with the overhead sprinklers in my tunnels, they worked fine on the submersible well pump, but just dribbled on the gravity fed spring water, (the well water is full of iron and stains the polythene).
A relatively cheap fix for me, and possibly for you, was to fill a tank close to where I wanted to irrigate and got a cheapo Lidl pressure pump.
That works wonderfully well and if you put a ball valve on the reservoir tank it will nearly keep pace with the irrigation pump.
I got this one ..http://www.lidl.ie/cps/rde/xchg/SID-55A ... _28771.htm

You can pick up cheapo submersible pumps for about 50 Euro these days in most of the larger DIY type stores like Bricostore or Praktiker (or whatever you have over the border there). You just want to check the depth of the water in the well and calculate the height you'll be drawing the water through to make sure it's powerful enough. You'll also need flexible hose and enough extension cable to get power to the well.

Thanks for the cracking advice!

You're wellcome