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Summary: Soaker hoses can be a valuable gardening tool - as long as they're used properly. Learn more in this free educational video series.
Tom Ashley has been farming organically at Dancing Bear Farm in Leyden, MA since 1981. He has trialled over 200 varieties of heirloom tomatoes and is trying to cut down to fifty. In...read more
" Well, the first one we're going to explain is the soaker hose. This is a porous hose that has thousands and thousands of little tiny holes, in the rubber, very rugged piece of hose. You can get them with fittings already attached or you can put a fitting, hose repair kit on. This is nice for slow delivery of water over a long period of time. The advantage of this too, is you can bury it under the surface of the soil and the plant will stay dry and the ground will get wet, it'll soak in nice and deep."