How to use a soaker hose
O
nce you have decided to use a soaker hose, the installation and setup is fairly easy and straight forward. Here I provide the simple steps to use a soaker hose to provide irigation to your garden.
- The first step is obviously to unpackage the hose from its packaging. Place the male end of the soaker hose where it will be connecting your regular garden hose.
- Unroll the hose from the female end along the route that you would like the hose to take in your area standing on the hose as you unroll it. The hose will have a tendancy to roll back up, and by unrolling it as opposed to simply pulling it apart will aleviate some of the rewinding tendancies.
- Ensure that the male end is capped off, or optionally connect it to the female end of a second soaker hose.
- Connect a standard garden hose to the water supply faucet and connect the garden hose to the soaker hose female end.
- I found these ‘U’ shaped metal stakes which are
Landscape Anchors
intended to hold down landscaping mesh that works great for holding down the soaker hose. Place these in strategic locations to hold the soaker either closer to or farther away from the plants to be watered.
That’s it! The soaker hoses are extremely easy to setup and use. You can optionally install a garden variety timer to automatically water your garden at specific times and for specific lengths of time.
