If you’re not using soaker hoses in your garden, now’s the time to start. It's a highly efficient way to water, so while you may spend a little on a soaker hose and fittings at the onset, you will ...

Which soaker hose is best? Plants need water to thrive. Unfortunately, watering with a hose or using a sprinkler isn’t as effective as most people think. To give plants what they need, you must get ...

The best tool for the job is the right tool. When it comes to hoses, a garden hose is a general-purpose item that you can use in a wide variety of situations. On the other hand, a soaker hose has one ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A Rancho Park gardener’s recent letter raised the question of whether a ...

Compare sprinkler systems for lawns, weighing flexibility, efficiency, and cost to understand which setup best suits your ...

When we were kids our dad made us work in the garden every Saturday. We turned soil in the flower beds, pruned shrubs and hedges, and weeded. There was no lawn where we lived. Only flower beds, ...

Q. We have a strawberry patch in a raised plot. We watered it this year with a soaker hose, lying back and forth across the patch. We obviously did not water them enough. When using a soaker hose, is ...

Years ago, Shirley Harberts was on her deck, repotting houseplants at her Newport News home. Taking a break, she looked at a soaker hose in the yard. “Could it be used for indoor plants?” she asked ...