If you’re not using soaker hoses in your garden, now’s the time to start. It's a highly efficient way to water, so while you may spend a little on a soaker hose and fittings at the onset, you will ...

Q. We have a strawberry patch in a raised plot. We watered it this year with a soaker hose, lying back and forth across the patch. We obviously did not water them enough. When using a soaker hose, is ...

I found your old answer about the safety of garden hoses and the advice to use a rubber soaker hose. With more current information coming out about heavy metals and other industrial chemicals in ...

While they can perform similar jobs, garden and soaker hoses are made with different purposes in mind. Garden hoses are for general use, while soaker hoses are for watering plants. Garden hoses are ...

Springtime in our region often brings ample total moisture, but for gardeners with heavy soils, this can be as bad as drought. Too much moisture early on can stunt plants and prohibit good root zone ...

Overhead sprinklers waste water because the water evaporates and/or runs off. Soaker hoses, instead, allow water to seep directly into the soil, around the root zones where it’s needed most. In this ...