I understand! If you put the water right into the root zones, you don't need to worry much about evaporation from the soil surface.
One thing I like about mini-sprayers is that I can see and hear them. If a coupling blows apart, I would see the fountain from anywhere in my yard. And the "hiss" reminds me to turn it off, if I'm not using my wind-up one-shot timer.
But sprayers waste water in windy or hot, dry climates.
>> We tried woodchips on our strawberry rows, and that looks very nice, but it is hard to keep them where they belong with 4 young children!
I never thought about children in the garden!
