Not just any hose.  This thing will make you want to water your horticulture 24/7.  I had to force myself to quit today.

So what’s all the ruckus about?  It’s about this sassy baby.

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It doesn’t tangle.  You hook it up and the flow of the water fills the hose and makes it expand on its own to over one hundred feet.  And when you’re finished, you turn the water supply off and keep the nozzle open and the act of draining the hose makes it shrink to its original size as show above.  Now come on.  That’s a hose.  No more tug of wars.  No more knots and pretzels.  Just the pure unmitigated joy of watering, showering, misting and soaking.  Hell, I may get back out there before bedtime.  Now the temperatures are in the 90 to 95 range for the next foreseeable future, so this hose is gonna get some real usage.  
Screw the water bill.

 

I even watered shrubbery shared with neighbors on either side of me.  Share the wealth.  I remember the days of y’or when those sprinkler systems toggled back and forth.  Fun for kids to jump through yet limited in keeping a lawn alive.  I hear that way down South they have underground irrigation systems that are programmable to turn on and off automatically.  Well that’s just cheating.  Watering is bonding time.  Some trees need soaked roots.  Some flowers just need a nice little mist.  No machine can determine the needs of your landscaping better than you.  

Now my gardening skills have improved greatly since leaving the city.  Thank god as it’s been seven years and we’ve invested thousands in shrubbery and the like.  Back in the city, my experience consisted of killing a pothos plant every couple of months.  Hey they were disposable and under ten bucks.

But now I’ve got two evergreen trees standing about twelve feet and started at just three. I am so damn proud of them.  In my mind, they’re bound for Rockefeller Center.  Try accomplishing that with a pothos.