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Melnor Flat Soaker Garden Hose delivers a slow, steady drizzle of water to tree roots, garden beds, planter boxes, or even to small patches of grass.
While all garden hoses can, of course, be used for irrigation of plants, flowers, turf, and so on, a standard garden hose is not referred to as an irrigation hose. That's a classification reserved for hoses like the Melnor Flat Soaker Garden Hose, which features a permeable exterior that allows a water to slowly but steadily leak out all along its length.
This design allows you to weave the hose among rows of flowers or food plants, to coil it loosely around the base of a tree, or to snake it up into planter boxes or along the edge of a strip of grass or ground cover.
The Melnor Flat Soaker Garden Hose can be used in place of much more expensive and invasive irrigation systems, and it can be moved around or removed entirely as needed, unlike more permanent watering hardware. Also, the 50-foot Melnotr Flat Soaker Hose costs all of $13.
While this hose is going to prove entirely ineffective for powering a sprinkler or pressure washing a front stoop, it's a superlative choice for keeping plants, flowers, trees, shrubs, and patches of ground cover watered and healthy.
The Melnor Flat Soaker Garden Hose has a solid four-star average rating at the time of this review, with one satisfied customer saying she is "glad [she] did [her] research before choosing a soaker hose, because her Melnor irrigation hose proved a be a "success story." Another owner says the hose was "a great addition to [her] veggie garden."
A writer from Garden Aware said the Melnor Flat Soaker Hose "provides even water distribution for your flower beds, perennials, shrubs, flower bushes and other plants," and called it durable thanks to its "woven mesh material with composite reinforced structure."
Pros: Provides ideal irrigation for myriad plants, great low price, durable construction
Cons: Not suitable for use with sprinklers or sprayers
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