Something like this? Offer suggestions? We can split the acorns!
Tired of dragging hoses around? Want a spigot every 50 feet?
1) Buy some 3/4" and/or 1/2" black polyethylene "mainline" hose designed for drip irrigation.
2) Run it from your existing spigot around your house or past each bed, burying it or adding a screw-disconnect where you have to mow.
3) Then insert Tees with male hose threads ANYWHERE you want a hose spigot. To each of those Tees, optionally screw on a cheap two-valve Y. (These are Dripworks part numbers ELMC or CMT34, plus HYV, combined cost $ 2.90 or $4.20.)
4) Screw one
short section of garden hose onto each spigot. For this, cut up a long, cheap garden hose and add male and female hose ends with hose clamps from Home Depot.
5) Sometimes the extra shutoff valve is unused, but you can add branches of 1/2" mainline with sprinklers, sprayers, misters, drippers, drip-line or T-Tape. Being able to shut off a row of sprayers, but leave the drip-lines dripping on a timer, is really handy. You can slowly drip-irrigate pots or large beds that way.
Black PE mainline is too stiff to use as
as a garden hose.
Dripworks sells ½" PE mainline for $14 / 100 feet. That will deliver 6 GPM = 240 GPH.
Steubers Distributing sells ¾" PE mainline for $20 / 100 feet. That will deliver 8 GPM = 480 GPH.
Their wall thickness is 0.050 - 0.055 inch.
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"Compression Tee" with Male hose thread (capped) - - - Mainline END with 2-Valve Metal Y + garden hose
Closeup of Compression Tee with Male hose thread
+ Brass 2-Valve Y
+ EZ-Loc connector to ½" mainline
+ cut garden hose with brass Female Hose End from Home Depot
Edited to add:
Dripworks sells $22 flip-flop Y valves that change position each time water starts flowing. So you could water some zones every-other-time the timer runs. Or they have a 6-way alternatoprt for large farms ($56).
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(Thanks, BjBloomers!)