Water Hose Reel
Every gardener knows how important it is to have a good quality hose pipe in order to keep the garden well watered. All plants, flowers, lawns and vegetables need ample amounts of watering during the hot months, and using a watering can is simply not sufficient in many cases. When buying a water hose reel and best garden hose, there are many different options available, which are designed to cater for different needs.
Sizing Up Your Garden
Before purchasing a new water hose reel, it is important to assess your needs to ensure that you are buying the correct hose.
For a small garden that has easy access from the tap point and does not have many obstacles in it, a small hose reel of 20m should be sufficient, and if you do not use it frequently, a manual rewind hose reel should be more than adequate for your needs.
If you have a large garden, and need to take the hose across and around objects and plant pots, it may be a good idea to purchase a water hose reel cart to carry the hose reel around on. This will save on dragging a heavy hose around the garden and will protect your plants from being trampled on.
Whatever the size of your garden, some people like to have a neat, tidy and clutter free garden area, and hose pipes can definitely be messy if not kept in the correct way. There are a number of wall mounted water hose reel holders that can keep it out of the way.
Retracting Water Hose Reels
Gone are the days of having a long, winding, and knotted water hose strewn across the garden, as you can now buy a retractable water hose reel, which enables you to wind the hose back up neatly onto the reel. This not only prevents any tripping accidents in the garden, but prevents kinks and knots from developing as the hose is crossed over continuously. There are a number of different types of retracting hose reels including:
- Manual rewind hose reel
- Easy rewind hose reel
- Auto rewind hose reel
- Water powered hose reel
The price of these hose reels and garden hose holders increase slightly with the ease of use, so the auto rewind is the most expensive of the three options, but is also the best.
Watering Tips
It is important to fully understand the watering needs of you garden in order to give the plants the required care.
Lawns are best watered using a sprinkler head, which can be attached onto the water hose reel, and this gives a nice even spread of water, and it can be left on for a while whilst you attend to other garden needs. Potted plants require holes in the bottom to prevent overwatering from soaking the roots and causing water damage, and they can also be topped with mulch to prevent them from drying out quickly. Leaf mulch can also be added to flower beds to prevent all of the water from evaporating on a hot day.