I don't know if it's because my soaker hoses are quite old and that I'd buried them for several years so they wouldn't show and perhaps they got clogged with dirt??? Maybe I don't have the barrel high enough for my good friend, Mr. Gravity, to help me out. Whetever the reason they are not working with my barrel, so I traded in a new soaker hose I bought for a sprinkler hose.
I could only find a 50-foot sprinkler hose, so I ran it the length of the flower bed and cut it in order to put the adapter on the end for the cap. I found out that sprinkler hoses have a rigid rubber rib that runs down the middle of the hose, making it very difficult to put the male/female end adapter in--so, if you get a sprinkler hose, get the male/female adapter end that fits the 5/8-inch hose in lieu of the 3/4-inch hose. You'll have to cut that rib to get the adapter in, but using the smaller size will save you lots of time and frustration!
By the way, the sprinkler hose works much better than the soaker hose did. I hooked it up to my overflow fittings using a "Y" connector so when we get rain those thirsty plants next to the house will get rain water. When I want to water that bed with the sprinkler hose on the spigot, I can hook it up to the other side of the "Y" connector. Sweet! Wish I'd have figured that out earlier this summer.
Now I just have to hook up the other half of the hose to another flower bed at the other side of the house.
Happy watering!!
I could only find a 50-foot sprinkler hose, so I ran it the length of the flower bed and cut it in order to put the adapter on the end for the cap. I found out that sprinkler hoses have a rigid rubber rib that runs down the middle of the hose, making it very difficult to put the male/female end adapter in--so, if you get a sprinkler hose, get the male/female adapter end that fits the 5/8-inch hose in lieu of the 3/4-inch hose. You'll have to cut that rib to get the adapter in, but using the smaller size will save you lots of time and frustration!
By the way, the sprinkler hose works much better than the soaker hose did. I hooked it up to my overflow fittings using a "Y" connector so when we get rain those thirsty plants next to the house will get rain water. When I want to water that bed with the sprinkler hose on the spigot, I can hook it up to the other side of the "Y" connector. Sweet! Wish I'd have figured that out earlier this summer.
Now I just have to hook up the other half of the hose to another flower bed at the other side of the house.
Happy watering!!
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