A watering can gives you the best control for watering, but if you are using a hose, always check taps and hose connections for drips and leaks, and use a hose with a trigger nozzle, spray-gun or a wand extension (useful for hanging baskets) to reduce water waste. Feeding attachments can be connected to both wands and hose-ends.
It is now a legal requirement to fit any type of hose to a tap with a double check-valve. This cuts out all risk of polluted water siphoning back into the water supply.
Tangled hoses are likely to split and leak. In a small garden, keep the hose coiled away in a tub or terracotta pot which has been drilled to allow one end of the hose through to the tap connection. Or install a wall-mounted hose reel, which is a tidy way to store a hose.
Small accessories that are also helpful are hose guides—small plastic spools with a zinc spike that sticks into the ground. These are also sold as cable guides and allow the hose to swivel freely as it is used, so preventing both kinks in the hose and damage to plants.
With these
garden hose accessories
, you'll have an easier time watering the plants in your garden.by the Editors of Reader's Digest
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