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WATER HOSE & NOZZLE x HOSE (WATER) x NOZZLE (HOSE) xx GARDENING TOOL xx LAWN WATERING xx PLANT WATERING How to stretch the life of your garden hose. Tip: Make a coffee can storage container for garden-hose attachments. Garden hose guard is a painted finial mounted on top of a length of copper pipe and a wooden dowel. Protects plantings from the hose being dragged across them. Strong and decorative hanger for a garden hose is built from white oak. Garden hose holder made from 2x4, plywood and large dowel. Wooden holder for a garden hose bolts to a wall. Tip shows how to protect a garden hose from driveway traffic. Repairing plastic and rubber garden hose. Repair a broken garden hose using a coupler or by splicing. Tips on how to maintain and repair wheelbarrows, garden hoses, lawn sprinklers and spreaders. Spring-summer maintenance tips include checking your lawnmower engine, repairing leaking garden hoses and stopping a drip in an outdoor faucet. How to make a spray nozzle holder that can be positioned anywhere, can be easily moved, and will direct the spray at any angle desired. Pulley assembly from pie pans and inserted into ground, makes it much easier to pull a garden hose around a corner. Tip shows how to make a wall-hung garden hose rack from a large plastic plant liner. Quick garden hose fixes. (1) Splicing with a clamp coupling. (2) Adding a clinch finger coupling. Plastic pail attached to the wall serves as a hanger for a garden hose. Large plastic flower pot is buried in the ground and provides hidden storage for a garden hose. Gardening on a crowded lot. Planting boxes, 17" deep, and 6-ft.-tall trellises help create the maximum amount of garden without wasting space. Insert shows how boxes, trellis and a watering wand can be constructed. Tip: Make wickets from steel rod to control the path of a hose in the yard or garden. How to remove a build-up of mineral deposits in soaker hoses. Garden hoses. How to choose the kind you need. Advice on shopping and hose care. Hose timers for watering the garden. Looks at both mechanical and electronic units. Tip on using wire insulation supports to hold down soaker hoses. Advice on how to improve soaker-hose performance. Tip suggests using a 12" piece of old garden hose as a flexible garden spigot. Tip suggests hanging hose hanger high for less tangling. Tip on using old croquet mallets as a decorative hose guide. Tip on using glass jars to calibrate how long a hose timer must remain on for 1" of water to be deposited on lawn or garden. Water wise. Advice on watering lawns and plants (how much, how long, how deep). A look at in-ground irrigation systems, hoses, sprinklers and how to install a drip irrigation system. Homemade hose guide for garden beds. Suggestion for using sections of clay drainage tile to protect a garden edge from the hose. Tiles are also used as planters for annuals. Tip: Use a rubber roller made for boat trailers to guide your garden hose around flower beds, bushes, etc. Tip: A simple guide made of PVC pipe makes it easier to pull a garden hose off of a wall-mounted reel. Tip: How to replace a coupling on a garden hose. Tips on garden hose lengths, diameters, volume of water delivered, construction, coupling and storage. Tip describes using sleeves of old garden hose around sections of a soaker hose to keep water where it's wanted. A simplified technique of draining garden hoses for winter. Rack for hanging up a garden hose is made from water pipe. Panorama lawn spray. A device to hold the nozzle of a garden hose 30" above the ground for spraying. Holder can be rotated and secured in any horizontal or vertical position. A portable outdoor faucet can be made by attaching a faucet to a length of angle iron which you push into the ground where needed. Then attach the faucet to your outdoor garden hose faucet with a length of hose. Make your own hose nozzles from plumbing pipe fittings (nipples, caps and couplings). Drill the hole patterns to fit your own spray pattern needs. Est. cost: $2. Customize your hose reel by adding a small shelf at the bottom for carrying hand tools around the yard. How to repair a garden hose. Tip: Make a strain relief for your garden hose from a section of automotive water pump hose. Hose storage rack is designed to facilitate removal of the coiled up hose. How to make a trio of garden helpers. A hose guard, dibbles and cord, and a kneeling bench. Tip: How to make soaker hoses from scraps of 4- and 6-mil plastic. Tip on eliminating those "permanent" kinks in string-reinforced green-vinyl garden hoses. Easy ways to water. Build a sprinkler, furrow or drip system to do the work for you. Selecting and using "soaker" hoses. Homemade soaker hoses made from 6-mil. plastic and hose fittings. Tip describes how to slip foam pipe insulation over a section of soaker/sprinkler hose to keep it from watering a walkway. Wood storage reel for a soaker hose. Penetrator pipe attaches to a hose for deep watering of lawns, shrubs and trees. Two-wheel cart for garden hose is made from thin-wall steel conduit. Build this simple hose caddy to keep a garden hose neatly coiled where you need it. How to repair a garden hose. Garden hoses, a guide to the variety of types available. Rotating hose reel for storing garden hose. Outdoor water faucet and hose are stored in a covered hole in the ground to keep them out of sight and out from under foot. Mount a hose reel inside the garage and run the hose out through a hole in the wall only when needed. By sinking an old auto tire in the ground, you have a convenient, out-of-the-way place to store a coiled up hose. Tip: A short length of hose attached to the end of your regular garden hose will protect the threads of your garden hose from being bent out of shape by dropping, being stepped on, being run over, etc. Tip: Use two conventional hose racks to hang a hose in a "figure 8" pattern so that it will unwind without twisting. Wooden box suspended underneath your semi-circular hose rack is used to store hose accessories and auto cleaning supplies. Multiple-head garden spray unit is made from PVC pipe and commercial spray heads with directional control. Water for this portable unit comes through a garden hose. How to make a hose guide from a 2x6 post that will make it easier to reel in a heavy hose. How to build a greenhouse frame, a water wand and other garden devices from PVC pipe. Photo shows how a reel for a garden hose can be mounted inside a garage with an opening in the garage wall for the hose to pull out from. Outdoor wash-up station is styled like an old-fasioned hand pump, but is supplied water from a garden hose. Questions to ask when choosing a garden hose. Tip: Decorative pagoda-like hose guide is cut from 4x4 wood. Roll-out cart to hold a garden hose stores beneath a deck. Measures 31"x48"x6" deep. How to select a hose-end sprinkler. Useful tricks your hose can play with the right nozzles. Tips on selecting hose and nozzles to water more carefully and efficiently. How to choose the right garden hose. Watering hose holder cut from wood is decorated with painted tulips. Irrigation island. A decorative cedar hanger for garden hose and accessories. | |||||||||
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