Just broke ground on a fallow field of weed trash, now should I fertilize?

Should I fertilize?

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Okay so the "birds" I have shoot 30 feet, I need like twenty feet max and would rather have a shower instead of a distance spray, anybody have any good online suppliers? I have no idea of what I am doing...
 
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If you mean watering the garden, I'm sure we can properly confuse you on the issue. I prefer to let the hose run on the ground because the roots need water, not the leaves. Plus wet foliage can lead to mildew. That said, I'll probably have to abandon that in favor of a large sprinkler because my new garden is 100 times bigger than the old one.
 
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I have irrigation parts and pieces and put a set up together, I am running two 80 foot runs of 2" and have eight "birds/things that shoot water". Went to test it and found many birds frozen so went and go replacements but they shoot too far also. Having trouble finding what I need. Most birds are made to shoot water far, I need 20-22 feet max and I would like something that waters inside of the 30 foot circle the birds currently make. Picture doesn't show much detail except I would rather have a shower head type sprayer or something that shot about 20 feet.
 

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A big garden for anything except overhead sprinklers. Besides, yours is an arid climate, 'Lee. Getting the foliage wet, whether it's at 5am, when there is a whole day of sunshine ahead, or 5pm, when humidity has dropped below 20%, won't make a whole lot of difference. That said ...

'Lee, you are down there where a farmer will put in a hundred acres of onions and use drip irrigation. Personally, I'd be delighted to get back to flooding ... As it is, my big veggie garden is watered with the same 4" pipes as used on the alfalfa next to it. The little veggie garden and dahlia garden are watered with these:

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Several of these heads are Rainbirds. All can be crowded down to throw in a 35' circle.

Steve
 
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Most impulse type sprayers have an adjustment screw that can be rotated in to the sprayer to shorten the length of the spray. It will cause more misting and a wider but shorter pattern.
 
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Okay rethinking about how I want to do this irrigaten' thing... I am pretty sure I do not want to use the "birds" since I tried them again today and it makes great puddles and dry spots. So others mentioned drip systems and I am wondering should I go that route or try cutting furrows and use a flood method. I like the idea of using flood since it would be a lot of fun/work to cut out the watering grid.
 
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Well 'Lee, flooding will depend a lot on your soil and not just how level it is.

If water doesn't move across the surface of the ground properly, you will have puddles and dry spots.

It was an important job for this farm kid. I was in rubber boots with a shovel over my shoulder and had to even know which day of the week it was, right through summer! However, our farmland was a former lake bed. ... it's a high school play field now.

Steve
 
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