Very Slow Pump for bog garden

The web is loaded with cheap high-volume pumps for ponds and many
things.

Well, I have that. What I don't have is a pump for my new project: a
small bog garden.
I want a pump with delivery measured in gallons (just a few) per day,
not gallons per minute or hour.

The best I can come up with is very specialized "metering" pumps that
cost several hundred dollars.
I realize there isn't much call for this sort of thing, but it seems
like somebody somewhere
has such an animal.

2 gallons per day at a head of 5 to 10 feet would be lovely. I just
want to keep the dirt wet.
No waterfalls. No splashes.

Anybody got any hints on this?

Hayden

You can use a small "regular" pump if you just divert some of the water. Put
a "T" in your discharge line coming from the pump. One side of the "T" goes
to your bog while the majority of the discharge goes back to the source. Add
a valve on each line to refine your control. It is easy to have as little
water as you want going to the bog.
--
Ed

<stella227@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:b2f85551-a328-4f37-8494-74ab295acb1e@u18g2000pro.googlegroups.com...
> The web is loaded with cheap high-volume pumps for ponds and many
> things.
>
> Well, I have that. What I don't have is a pump for my new project: a
> small bog garden.
> I want a pump with delivery measured in gallons (just a few) per day,
> not gallons per minute or hour.
>
> The best I can come up with is very specialized "metering" pumps that
> cost several hundred dollars.
> I realize there isn't much call for this sort of thing, but it seems
> like somebody somewhere
> has such an animal.
>
> 2 gallons per day at a head of 5 to 10 feet would be lovely. I just
> want to keep the dirt wet.
> No waterfalls. No splashes.
>
> Anybody got any hints on this?
>
> Hayden
>

> Well, I have that. What I don't have is a pump for my new project: a
> small bog garden.
> I want a pump with delivery measured in gallons (just a few) per day,
> not gallons per minute or hour.
>
> 2 gallons per day at a head of 5 to 10 feet would be lovely. I just
> want to keep the dirt wet. No waterfalls. No splashes.
>
> Anybody got any hints on this?
> Hayden

Small pump on a timer? ~ jan
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Zone 7a, SE Washington State
Ponds: www.jjspond.us

a hose set on trickle.
a water barrel that is filled once a week and a hose comes out at the bottom set on
trickle.
Ingrid

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:27:44 EST, stella227@sbcglobal.net wrote:
>I want a pump with delivery measured in gallons (just a few) per day,
>not gallons per minute or hour.
>2 gallons per day at a head of 5 to 10 feet would be lovely. I just
>want to keep the dirt wet.
>No waterfalls. No splashes.
>
>Anybody got any hints on this?
>
>Hayden

How about one of those black trickle hoses?

Phyllis