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Weight There are two simple ways to reduce the weight of a garden hose—make it out of lighter material or use less material by reducing the hose’s diameter or wall thickness. A smaller diameter hose ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." As a garden writer and plant enthusiast, I spend hours in the garden every week during the growing season ...

Whether you tend an acre plot or a tiny vegetable patch, garden hose reels keep your yard neat and tidy for seasons of ...

Gardening season is in full swing, with pros and newbies alike snapping up seeds, pots, soil, and mulch to get this year’s crop started. Making plans for raising a bounty of vegetables, herbs, and ...

When your dry flower beds plead for water, your grass needs some extra attention, or your inflatable pool is looking extra enticing, it's important to have a garden hose that can get the job done. The ...

Who wouldn’t want a garden hose that’s lightweight, expandable, and never kinks? But when those supposedly easy-to-use hoses were introduced a few years ago, most of the user reviews had complaints ...

The new garden hose comes with a standard 3/4 inch solid connector and leak proof rubber gasket, making this water hose easy to connect to any hose or sprinkler head. The garden hose can withstand a ...

When Consumer Reports put three flexible garden hoses to the test, it didn't treat them like shrinking violets. We kinked, twisted, slashed and froze the hoses and applied a lot of water pressure. For ...

In "The 25 Skills You Should Teach Your Kid," a feature in a recent issue of Popular Mechanics, Walker Lamond wrote, "You can learn a lot about a person by how they coil a hose. If you have ever ...