I love the concept of the water to air system! Best of all worlds esp. with our 72deg. ground water temp. We have a well, but they had to go down 170ft. to get it into the aquifer.
That's the beauty of the micro system, John. You can move the sprinkler heads just by lifting them up, lowering them down or staking them in another spot. We haven't had a problem with the spray being blocked except by the low greens like lettuce, which we plant along the south edge of the beds anyway. So they always get watered from one side, and the rest of the plants pretty quickly have most of their leaves up above the water spray, a good thing.
For watering daylilies, I'm using half circle sprayers like the one in the right side of the last picture. It has a 12in. stake so it can spray high or low for best coverage. Slanting the stake can make the spray go way up, and I'm using one of those for a few minutes each day to 'mist' my orchids. They are adjustable flow with a little finger valve on the side of each emitter, too, so you can water a pot efficiently on low flow or spray a 10ft. diameter half circle mist on full flow.
I don't have lawn, and I certainly don't water every day unless I'm starting transplants or growing veggies at home. But it's nice to know I am allowed to water any day I think the garden needs it. We often go a couple of months in spring and fall with very little rain and hot weather.
Pat, certainly this summer you've had enough rain for the lawns but we haven't. One weather reporter had numbers for July already - Tampa and counties around there got over 12in. of rain and Sarasota County recorded only 2in. A friend in DeLand, north and east of Orlando has had even more than Tampa got.
