Garden Watering Soaker Hose

How to set up a soaker hose?

Lay the device in the bed along the rows of garden vegetable plants you wish to water and leave it in place for the growing season.

A single vegetable soaker hose can be situated down the middle of a narrow-raised plant bed.

For larger vegetable beds or high-demand fruits such as tomatoes, you can circle the vegetable soaker hose in the bed around the bottom of the plant for more irrigation.

Can you move a soaker hose?

It is best to leave a vegetable soaker hose in the bed in between your garden plants and keep in place for the growing season as to not disturb the vegetable plants.

However, soaker hoses are accessible because they can be moved about the garden with ease. Very little upkeep and inspection of garden watering is necessary when you use a vegetable bed soaker hose to water your plants.

What are the benefits of using a soaker hose?

1. You will save water

This style of hose will continuously deliver extreme efficiency when it comes to watering your garden plant beds. This is because of how the water from a soaker hose is distributed. Watering your garden vegetable beds with a sprinkler or by hand, you’ll use more water than necessary. Most of the water that you use in this fashion never extends to the plant’s root system; it is instead supplied to the leaves of the plant, where it can produce problems like rot and mould.

2. Convenience

Is another benefit of using a soaker hose. The hectic life of today's homeowner means that many of us have less time for gardening. The need to check the water distribution of a regular garden hose or to water plants by hand with a can is time consuming. With a plant soaker hose in your garden vegetable beds, you only need to turn it on for a certain amount of time to accomplish the results you want.

You don't need to hang around and monitor how the water flows. For most gardeners, a vegetable soaker hose can put the joy back into growing your beautiful plants.

You'll spend more time enjoying your garden and less time worrying over watering your vegetable plant beds when you use a soaker hose.

3. You will save money

Along with saving water comes the much-appreciated benefit of saving money. Making garden vegetable soaker hoses a truly eco choice.

Length of hose: 4m (with nylon sleeving)

Weight: 0.23kg

Material: Plastic

Colour: Black/yellow

Operates on low water pressure

Only 30cm turning space required

Includes all required connectors (compatible with all major brands of hose fittings)

Approx. 60% water saving compared with conventional garden plant sprinklers.