On 19/08/2013 08:48, Janet wrote:
In article ,
says...

I'm fed up with struggling with the hose. I'm sure it kinks to resist my
watering. Do any of you use drums on wheels to store your hoses? If so
which ones are best?

I've got a hoselock one.. and for years I've been thinking its too
much faff and I'd rather have one of those stretchy spring hoses.

Janet

What about those stretchy blue ones advertised everywhere?

In article , david@abacus-
nurseries.co.uk says...

On 19/08/2013 08:48, Janet wrote:
In article ,
says...

I'm fed up with struggling with the hose. I'm sure it kinks to resist my
watering. Do any of you use drums on wheels to store your hoses? If so
which ones are best?

I've got a hoselock one.. and for years I've been thinking its too
much faff and I'd rather have one of those stretchy spring hoses.

Janet

What about those stretchy blue ones advertised everywhere?

Finding one isn't a problem, but we use everything to destruction, so
while the hoselock still works (age 15 ish) I am too mean to retire it
:-)

Janet

On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 08:57:08 +0100, David Hill
wrote:


What about those stretchy blue ones advertised everywhere?

There was a review in a recent Amateur Gardening. Apparently you need
really good water pressure which sort of rules one out for me
(anything like a timer is enough to reduce things to a trickle here).

I use a thin version of the yellow gas piping as my hose. Found a drum
20 years ago in an end-of-line pile at a wholesaler. Can't kink or
twist it however hard I try! Only downside is that if a Hozelock
fitting breaks, I end up cutting half an inch of hose off with a
hacksaw and then spending half an hour easing the new fitting on
without breaking those "claws".

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On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:52:16 +0100, Jake
wrote:

On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 08:57:08 +0100, David Hill
wrote:


What about those stretchy blue ones advertised everywhere?

There was a review in a recent Amateur Gardening. Apparently you need
really good water pressure which sort of rules one out for me
(anything like a timer is enough to reduce things to a trickle here).


The water pressure in my garden is not very good but the blue XHose
works fine.

Steve

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