Plus: no outside faucet?? Use water barrels to collect the rain runoff from the house's roof...then connect a drip line.
The drip lines are gravity-fed (stack $1.97 each concrete blocks from Home Depot or Lowe's to make a platform for the rain barrel - the higher the platform, the more pressure and faster the water will flow). Caveat: connecting a garden hose to the rain barrel and then raising the free end above the rain barrel spigot, like to use a spray nozzle, won't work: water won't run uphill!
I have 4 rain barrels (they look like classic Grecian urns - terracotta-colored plastic of course!
one buried just beneath the surface for my plants along the back fence
one stretching above the surface for my 40' raised bed on the side (I like watermelons!
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one connected to half a garden hose, to water my containers in front
one connected to the other half of that garden hose, as a back-up for my containers in the front (tomatoes are VERY thirsty!
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Oh, and about that "half a garden hose" even the SHORTEST hose was much too long, leaving trip-hazardous coils: so I bought a male and a female hose end from Amazon, cut that too-long hose in half and made 2 very much short hoses!
I have plans for a third drip line!!! (Watering wastes time I could spend GROWING!
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