>> just gotta' find a 4-6 ft. hose.
An expensive solution is to cut a 5' length off a hose you already own. Then add one male and one female hose-end fitting and secure them with hose clamps.
Has anyone had luck with PLASTIC hose-end fittings? I stripped the plastic where a fine-pitch, skinny screw tries to use its grip on soft plastic to apply enough pressure to hold at 45 psi.
BTW, one alternative to soaker hoses is "dripline" hoses. They have built-in emitters or drippers that can even be pressure-compenstating. You c an get them with a dripper every 6, 9, 12, 18 or 24 inches, and 1/2 GPH or 1 GPH. I've seen 1/4" dripline and 1/2" dripline. It seems much cheaper and easier than inserting dozens or hundreds of individual emitters by hand!
Home Depot was much cheaper then Dripworks for dripline4 and mainline. But Dripworks had bags of hose clamps at around 1/2 HD pricers.
