You don’t have to look far to find the war stories written by people who have been beaten by the lowly garden hose.
Look, we all know that garden hoses are out to get you. They coil
around your ankles, catch on patio table legs, and hide in the lawn just
waiting to trip up your lawnmower, but they’re a necessary evil.
Without a garden hose, most gardeners would be consigned to hauling
bucket after bucket of water from the spigot to wherever the soil is too
dry to support healthy plant life. And frankly, even wrestling with a
recalcitrant garden hose is better than hauling water around your
vegetable garden and lawn 2 gallons at a time.
That doesn’t
mean you have to like it, though, and all over the Web on gardening
discussion groups and gardening blogs, gardeners vent their irritation
with the garden hoses they love to hate. Do any of these sound like a
garden hose you’ve owned?
It’s so heavy that by the time you’re done watering, your arms and shoulders ache from dragging it from one spot to another.
The
plastic garden hose fittings cracked and broke the first time you tried
to tighten it to the spigot – which you had to do because it insisted
on spitting water in your face every time you turned it on.
Or the
soft metal faucet connector decided to tangle with the car and got all
bent out of shape when it lost. You’d think you could bend it back into
shape, but no.
Kink-free hoses just aren’t.
But what about
those new-fangled garden hoses? If you haven’t been tempted by the
folksy TV ads promising you that a coil garden hose will take up just a
few feet of space on your patio
but stretch to three times its length to reach every corner of your
yard, you’re just not frustrated enough yet. In fact, the past few years
have seen an explosion of new garden hose styles to take the place of
your not-so-trusty 1/2 inch garden hose in all its leaky infamy. If
you’re in the market to replace your current hose, you’ll have an
embarrassment of choices, including drinking safe garden hose, heated
water hose, coil garden hose, 3/4 inch garden hose, one inch water hose and more.
Don’t
put up with your old, bulky garden hose another day. Check out the new
styles of hoses available to make your gardening chores so much easier.
