@Wild edges, seldom need to do a lot of watering in this area but the combination of repeated trips with watering can, walking stick and lots of steps between areas of the garden is not a good one when I do need to soak a large area.
I'll let you off then My water is stored at ground floor level and my garden is at first floor level but I have the advantage of not needing a walking stick.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I have an expanding hose and I love it, BUT the plastic connector broke, and appears to be slightly non-standard. I've had to replace it with a workaround.
I've had a plain yellow Hozelock hose that I've used for years and had no problems with it kinking. I needed more so bought a flashy Hozelock grey hose with yellow ribs which claims to be anti-twist. I hadn't been using it long when it kinked badly as I was winding it back onto the reel and now kinks at the same spot whenever it's used. I've resorted to chopping it into shorter sections and using the sections to link from the outside tap to the hose reel.
As for using a watering can! My garden is 150 feet long and the only water supply is at one end. Will I consider taking cans down the garden all the time? In a word - No.
There are all sorts of things come into play when you are deciding on a new hose: the size of your garden the shape of your garden where the tap is how often you need to water the weight of the hose - for us less able whether you reel the hose in every time or whether it lies out with people walking over it, kids on bikes etc how much you are willing to pay etc etc. A considered purchase as hopefully a new hose will last almost forever.
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Mine's a Hozelock with (I think) the better grade of hose. Anyway, it's been faultless for 5 years apart from the gun, which has developed a couple of pinholes in the plastic. You may notice I've filled all the orifices with cement, which makes it a good deal more stable
I don’t understand how to make my hozelock look as neat as that. It’s just a mess that I fight with every time.
I get string theory, I get the various concepts of infinity, but I have no idea how one end of a hose can reel out while the other end is still attached to the tap.
I worry about the rubber agricultural hose, having had two falls in the garden both resulting in breaks (of part of me) I wouldn't like to have a rubber hose without a reel so that it can be stashed away ... also, coming from a farming background I know just how heavy those black rubber hoses can be .... as I get older I don't know whether I could haul one about easily.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We bought the Hoselock "starter hose" (the cheaper one) it is dreadful. We got caught out and it is far too thin it kinks very badly.
You have to get the reinforced one £50 ish if you don't want to end up wanting to scream every time you use it.
The thicker one is OK but does not wind onto the plastic Hozelock carrier very easily as it is difficult to wind up. We now have the old thin one as well and and don't know what to do with it. I wish we had bought the Gardena instead.
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the size of your garden
the shape of your garden
where the tap is
how often you need to water
the weight of the hose - for us less able
whether you reel the hose in every time or whether it lies out with people walking over it, kids on bikes etc
how much you are willing to pay
etc etc.
A considered purchase as hopefully a new hose will last almost forever.
I get string theory, I get the various concepts of infinity, but I have no idea how one end of a hose can reel out while the other end is still attached to the tap.
A dark art.
I worry about the rubber agricultural hose, having had two falls in the garden both resulting in breaks (of part of me) I wouldn't like to have a rubber hose without a reel so that it can be stashed away ... also, coming from a farming background I know just how heavy those black rubber hoses can be .... as I get older I don't know whether I could haul one about easily.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You have to get the reinforced one £50 ish if you don't want to end up wanting to scream every time you use it.
The thicker one is OK but does not wind onto the plastic Hozelock carrier very easily as it is difficult to wind up. We now have the old thin one as well and and don't know what to do with it. I wish we had bought the Gardena instead.
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