u/chikenenen

Regular garage attached to house, I have one side lined with shelving and just now I've gone to get some weedkiller and stumbled upon this ABOMINATION IN MY GARAGE WHAT THE FRANKENSTEIN IS GOING ON HERE?!

This shelf is about 60cms off the ground. On this shelf I keep gardening stuff including soil amendments like a bag of perlite, sand, blood and bone meal, some other bits and bobs.

There is a massive pile of ... ??? ... spilled out onto the shelf, presumably the contents of the palm food because there's an ENTRANCE HOLE IN THE BAG, WHAT.

Something appears to be living in there.

Are the black things turds or are they some sort of pellet from inside the bag? I hadn't opened it so dunno what the contents looks like. If they're turds it's gotta be something bigger than a mouse in there unless he's eating like Mike Tyson every night.

As an aussie I've obviously grown up with the wildlife but I've never had anything make a home on a shelf that I walk past regularly. I have no idea how I didn't see it until now.

So what's your best guess on what's done this? And how do I trap it?

This is my first attempt at setting up irrigation to water 13 lilly pillies that I've planted.

I watched some instructional videos on dripline and they all talked about the importance of needing to be able to flush the system but I've misinterpreted that to mean the dripline itself needs to be flushed.

So I created some circles out of dripline and laid them all down in a daisy-chain (as per Version 1) but learned pretty quickly that less water/pressure/flow/whatever gets to the middle circles rather than the ones on the end.

I've since learned that I should have added a main loop around the perimeter and then connected each circle to that loop. And the loop is what should be flushed rather than the emitters/dripline. Nevermind... lessons learned.. but rather than rip it up and start again I've added little segments to join the inner circles back to the supply line, as per Version 2.

It seems to be working better and more water is getting to the circles in the middle. But I wanted to ask if this is okay or have I committed a mortal sin? Should I rip it up and start again or will this be fine?

Second question, where is the best place to put a flush point in this setup? I'd put that shutoff valve there to force water through the whole loop and then out a Tpiece+valve at the end but that seems moot now.

Thankyou for any help!

I'm very new to this, this is my first attempt at irrigation so I watched some youtube videos and then gave it a go.

The videos said don't leave dead ends but rather create a loop back to the main line and add a point to flush the system out if needed.

Sounds fair, so I daisy-chained the circles instead of connecting each one directly to the main line because I thought I wouldn't ever be able to flush out any debris that gathered within each dripline circle, it'd be trapped in there for good. I added a shutoff valve so that when it's time to flush I could close it and force water through the whole line and out the other end.

But now that it's in place I feel like it probably wasn't the best way to do it. I don't think the circles in the middle are emitting as much water as the ones at the ends so I'm wanting to alter it to fix it.

I have some questions for anyone who's knowledgeable enough and willing to answer them:

1. Is this too many circles in a line and if so what's the best fix?
   • Should I join the main line into some of those short segments between circles or will the pressure be consistent between all of them?
   • How many circles can I leave in a row before tapping back into the main line? Is 3 a better number?
2. Should I be putting a flush point in the line?
   • I added a valve so that I could force water through the entire run and then out the flush point at the end. Would joining the circles into the main line still allow the whole thing to be flushed properly? Do I even need a flush point? What kind of debris should I expect to end up in there anyway?
3. The drip line circles don't seem to water evenly
   • the ground the circles are sitting on isn't completely flat so the high-side isn't getting as much water as the low side. Water *is* coming out of the holes on the high side but rather than dripping into the ground it's instead following gravity and trickling along the length of the pipe before dripping into the ground on the lower side of the circle.
   • The whole reason I went to the trouble of laying these damn circles is because I'd read they're better for watering the roots on all sides, but in practise that doesn't seem to be true if the water just runs to the lower side of the drip line!

Any input appreciated, thankyou!

I've finally accepted that I don't like wireless peripherals but can't deny the appeal in a desk free of wires.

This room has three PCs and I draw the line at two having a wireless mouse and one having a set of wireless headphones. Swapping to wireless keyboards would probably do my head in as something would need to be recharged every other day.

These corsair keyboards are also perfect for me, I like everything about them.

If I were to put a 20mm hole just infront of the keyboard and run its wire through the silicone grommet and then along the underside of the desk... wouldn't that be a decent compromise?

Mostly clutter-free with the benefits of a wired keyboard never needing to be recharged?

I can't decide if this is a great idea or a really shitty one.