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To: CottonBall

Yep - we have two 50 footers to make it down to the barn, and I am 65 not as much strength as I used to have and I can easily drag it down and back with one hand. They connected easy, just a tight twist no pliers needed to get it leak proof. I like to get nozzles with just a lever control and a dial for the kind of spray. They’re cheapies from Dollar Genera but I buy a few year when they go on sale. The metal nozzles tend to rust and clog up with the well water. I like just holding the hose and watering, no squeezing a nozzle.


33 posted on 07/22/2017 7:17:06 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Law and Order and that includes Natural.)
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To: MomwithHope

I like those types of nozzles too - and the action of using a spray bottle kills me after a while. I get those that have the locking mechanism and lots of different stream options. (My husband got a rototiller to go with his tractor and the garden kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger...so I use the ‘full’ and ‘jet’ to water things I can’t get to with the ‘shower’ option. ‘Flat’ is good for doing rows.

I am physically limited with my hands and wrists, so those hoses sound great. Our wee orchard is on one side of the garden with the plants I water on the other side - I switch sides with the hoses now and then - but hate doing it! The orchard is 2 years old, so I don’t know when I can quit deep-watering the things. Not this year, I know that.


47 posted on 07/22/2017 5:49:56 PM PDT by CottonBall (Thank you, Julian)
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