It was warm yesterday into the 80's, so I watered the flower bed, all my grass growing spots and all the birdbaths...
I know about two years ago I wrote about this watering hose.
It has now seen a few summers and I think this hose is the best one I have ever had, it doesn't kink, it hasn't sprung a leak and it is light weight to drag around in various spots in the yard. It shrinks when you turn the water off...I store it in a crate under one of the woodshop benches all winter. We bought this Flexi Hose at a farm supply store. I can declare it a winner! ( I wish I had it when we had the Greenhouse Business as I was continually kinking those watering hoses)
Far Side
Oh wow, I love that hose! I had to buy industrial strength hose for my watering purposes, but then they are out all of the time winter and summer as I use them to water the stock tanks in the various pastures.
ReplyDeleteYour flower bed looks very pretty. Maybe I should try one of those hoses.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip about that hose. Our garden hose needs to be replaced every summer. Maybe I should look into one like yours. :-)
ReplyDeleteLove your flower bed; it is so colorful and joyous. That hose sounds like a winner!
ReplyDeleteThat hose looks like a pile of snakes. :)
ReplyDeleteLove the colors of the flowerbed.
Your little flower bed is so cute and I love the solar lights in it too. I've looked at that type of garden hose, but haven't purchased one. My husband bought one last summer that I HATE because it is colored exactly like a garter snake. It startles me every time I go out to water my flowers.
ReplyDeleteMy neighbour's have a similar hose, good to know it is a winner and I'll have to recommend it to my daughter.
ReplyDeleteThe little garden looks very nice, especially with all the solar lights. When the plants grow in you'll have to post an update.
I've been looking at those hoses and wondering if I want one. Now I think I do!!! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteHow did I get to be almost 60 and not know you should snip off the flowers so they'll root faster? Thank you for telling me. That hose sounds like one I need to drag around the backyard. The other one is so hard to coil back up after using.
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Betsy
I've been dead-heading flowers/plants since my parents taught me that when I was 9 years old. When I worked in a greenhouse for several years, people would walk up tp me and say "Stop breaking off those flowers!" Then I woiuld explain how it takes the stress off the roots and makes plants bushier and stronger, they said they'd never heard of it! I don't know who was more stunned, me or them, LOL! I like what you did for that little spot, it's gonna be so pretty! I wonder if I can talk my kids into buying those hoses for their gardens so I can get them around the yards easier, sure would help me! Blessings!
ReplyDeleteLeah found me a short one of those hoses for my patio. Last fall one end came loose and went flat but I am still planning on getting another one this spring because I LOVED mine. Your little garden is so pretty!! :)
ReplyDeleteI deadhead spent blooms, but find it very hard to snip off pretty ones.
ReplyDeleteGood to know about this hose.
I bought one last year but it sprung a leak this Spring and I paid more for the industrial strength one too! I just bought a new one for the back yard when the one in front sprung it's leak.....I have no luck! I'll be getting out the tape! I can't afford another one this year.
ReplyDeleteI have seen hoses like that and wondered if they are any good
ReplyDeleteYard stuff is never ending but it is never dull and boring.
ReplyDeleteI have a similar hose (a green one) and I love it!
ReplyDeleteWe had two different kinds of workmen to the house last month and they had the expandable hoses. I think I should have one for quick short watering. I found a spigot on the other end of the house that I have never used in two years.
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