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May 15, 2012 7:49 PM CST
Name: Rick Corey
Everett WA 98204 (Zone 8a)
Sunset Zone 5. Koppen Csb. Eco 2f
Frugal Gardener Garden Procrastinator I helped beta test the first seed swap Plant and/or Seed Trader Seed Starter Region: Pacific Northwest
Photo Contest Winner: 2014 Avid Green Pages Reviewer Garden Ideas: Master Level Garden Sages I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database.
Hurray!

AWESOME! Exactly what I had hoped for! THANK YOU!!

Amazing that their metal, lifetime, solid fixtures cost 1/4 of what HD charges for fall-apart-this-year plastic junk!

At those prices, I can set out a lot of soaker hoses I've been buying when on sale, plus have "outlets" right where I want them. Maybe set up some super-cheap sprinklers hither and yon!

I'll keep my eyes open for worn-out cut-up hoses in Habitat for Humanities Restore ... might make my olwn crude drip-and-spray system from 1/2 garden hoses!

Hmmm ... that link has 30-50 cent sprayers! I think I';m about go totally Bonkers. You've just unleashed The Corey Corps of Engineers!

(I kind of thought that "barbed" might be the right word, but then I thought "that can't be right, they have no barb!)

I guess I'll cut that hose and measure the inside first ... is it pretty universal that "cheap skinny hoses" are all 1/2" ID, and all "good big" hoses are 5/8"?

Or are there 1/23", 5/8" and 3/4"?
Or, sigh ... metric?

P.S. A plastic spray head fell apart, a used one from Goodwill was DOA, and I was dumb enough to let a nice aluminium wnatering wand (I"breaker head" freeze and now it's an omni-directional sprayer right where it screws into the hose.

So I tried experimenting with a screw-on Y fixture I already had, that had two ball valves. Y'know, by nudging that ball valve partly closed, I can get a REALLY heavy stream that becomes a heavy spray after (I don't know) 30-50 feet of travel. Or close it most of the way and get a medium-heavy spray ... that doesn't knock plants over if I stay 10-15 feet away. And it sure throws water FAST!
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