Miracle Gro EZ Connect Soaker Hose System - Setup & Review - MGSPA38100FM
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- Опубліковано 3 тра 2016
- This is the 100 ft Miracle Gro Soaker System. It's also available under several other brand names at Lowe's and Home Depot.
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Setup is easy, and the hose seems to work well.
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Best way to uncoil the hose is to temporary put a 5 gallon bucket or something on one end and unroll the coil. It will lay out straight and not in loops. Just pulling it apart like in the video will give you those coils. Hope this helps a little.
Thank you for this! There is like nothing decent out there about how to put this thing together. Thank you for taking them time to show us your work.
Thank you Papa. Uber respect, I just bought one this year and watching what you just did will make it a whole lot easier. I'm going to use the same layout method that you did but I'm using containers, I use 42 liter gray containers from Walmart. I'm going to line them up make small little Groove to hold the hose and do exactly what you did ....... Two thumbs up. 👍🏿👍🏿😊😊 PS there is one thing I would do. Before I connect the hose I would run it to make sure the water is cool because I'm using containers and I don't want to cook my roots😮
So glad to have found this video. I echo previous comments - this is the nitty gritty of how to get the system to work. I have also observed that the hose is efficient to about 80 feet. I am now experimenting with another technique - I have created a closed hose loop by bringing the end of the hose right around to the beginning, where the garden hose feeds, and I am actually putting water into both ends at the same time, very low pressure of course. This seems to have solved the problem of getting the hose to seep along its full length. I will be applying mulch and covering up as much of the hose and fittings to protect from UV as possible. Thanks again.
Great video. Just purchased the kit under a different name.
The key here is to keep it out of the sun and in the winter (if it freezes in your area) take it out and let it dry and store it somewhere out of the sun.
Thanks a lot! That's the best video among all videos I've seen about Soaker system.
Great video, he answered all of my questions about soaker hose. Thank you
Thank you for an excellent tutorial. Helped me finish my soaker hose lay out in my berm.
Thanks for video James. I appreciate how detailed your film and comments are. I felt reassured this will work because of your video.-Michael ( north Calif)
Great video, very informative -- didn't miss a beat on answering all of my concerns.
Thanks so much appreciate the detail. I never knew this hose had such flexibility, and your tips, make this a true watering system. Great job!!
Thanks!
I followed your instruction and worked very well thanks.
Very Very helpful. This was exactly what I was looking for. I was curious about different soil types, installation, spread, timing. Thanks for sharing.
Very cool, thx. Glad it helped
Thank you so much. This video really helped. I wouldn't have known where to start.
very informative video. Thank you for posting it. Answered all my questions. I'm going to give this a try.
Thank you! this was the most informative video I watched on the soaker hose.
Thanks! We’re just about to cut and place now. Very helpful video
This was SO helpful!!!!
very detail review....thanks a lot...it really helped
nice extensive and informative video... never thought to bury the hose, still trying to figure that out.
Thank you for the video!
Very informative. Great video. Thx
this was very helpful
5 stars! Fantastic video!
Thanks
Nicely done.. Very helpful
thx
Thank you for such a good video.
thanks, win win lol.
nice review, helpful
+Michael Sywak Thanks
When you prep for the following year, mix in regular soil to your clay soil. Will soften it a bit and allow more moisture to spread since it won't be as dense
I have found that if you unroll it like it was on a spool it’s so much easier to work with. Your results may vary with the type of hose & temperature.
When you're watering the soil but not the plants 😂😂
When you replaced the leaking coupling where the garden hose connects to the soaker hose, how did you get it apart? Does it easily slip out OR did you cut it off from the original coupling? Also, when stored away for the winter, I'm going to have to take it apart at the Ts. Will this go back together for the next season without leaks? BTW, this was an excellent video. Thanks for doing it and sharing your experience. We appreciate it!
maybe it's also a good idea to use some cat litter (Bentonite clay) it holds on better to water and nutriments..
my garden is also mostly sand and the use of a soaker hose and bentonite has done miracles for me.. And it's cheap..:-)
I am ready to install my hoses. How close do they need to be to the plants (tomatoes and peppers)?
I put them just a few inches a way from where I planted. That seemed to be about perfect
could you put together an update 1 year later... I just bought one and plan to install it this weekend.. .my one question would be if you got too much water between your rows in your walking area where you connected the T joints. I was going to connect it with an old hose
Yeah. I thought about doing that as well. You would need some different attachments to do that because the soaker hose slides inside the T joints. You probably would not be able to successfully do that with a water hose. You would need a larger hose to slide over the joints, and use hose clamps to make sure there are no leaks. That was my idea anyway.
It seems like you could connect those going across with solid vinyl drip hose.
is your system still holding up? I bought them but i am seeing people having leaks after a couple of months. I plan on burying mine and want to know if they will hold up to time?
Ours has never leaked at the joints. Only where the water hose connects. That piece is kind of garbage and you might seek a solution to that. The rest of the setup is flawless. If you bury it as well, it should hold up fine. The sun is what destroys these things. You can't expect much durability at this price point
@@AppalachianDIY One of the biggest issues with leaks at hose ends is that the male end has nicks in them. Take a flat piece of metal and sandpaper and a few rubbing the male end on the sand paper on the flat metal you will soon see if there are any nicks in it keep sanding until all the nicks are gone.
If this valid for large farms
Lol. It's not 25 bucks anymore. Thanks for the video. Either my instructions fell out or it didn't come with any
What size hose is it
Is your hose a 3/8th?
OK, I installed my soaker hose in my 4 x 12 raised bed zig zagging 3ea. 15' rows ( total hose length, 46 ft.). Seeems to work OK except for the last 10 Ft. Less dripping than the front end. But my main question is long long do you run the water? I let it run for 30 mins and depth of moisture was about 6".
My moisture level was pretty equal across the whole way, but obviously set up differently than yours. Shorter hose lengths help equalize the flow. As far as how long to run, I think it depends on how your is setup, your base water pressure, and hoe close to the roots the hoses are. When I finally was satisfied with my watering schedule, I set on 1hr 45 min in the hottest part of the summer, 3 days a week. Eventually a 4th day, with a shorter watering time, because it gets so humid and blistering in North Carolina.
Thanks for the quick response. I'm in SO Cal so no humidity issues but it does get warm in July/August. Will be adding mulch to my beds to keep in the moisture.
mulch definitely helps. We used mulch to hold the moisture around our cucumbers. In addition to the soaker hose, this seemed to be the prefect setup for the humid summers
Still happy with the soaker hose? Any leakage?
Held up just fine all summer, and fall. No leaks to report. Leaving it buried until spring. Once its warm enough to start tiling the garden, will dig it up and check that all is OK before putting it back to use.
I've heard they can clog up (calcium build up) after a single season and become useless.
could be. But even at $25 per season that's not bad
Surely that depends on the specific water in use. Hard water logically would clog the hose more rapidly. I guess I'll find out. I have pretty good well water which isn't hard at all compared to what I've seen in other locations. And I'll be installing my hose tomorrow. It would be sweet if it lasted more than one season. Longevity is probably also affected by the type of soil.
I hope that spammer, "Ye Ada", doesn't respond to me. Fooey, if this were my video I'd delete his crap.
great video...don't know it yall know this but miracle grow is owned by scotts which is owned by Monsanto group...I like your ideas here but will put my money in a company that's not scotts or monsanto
Soaker hoses don't work with liquid limestone water.
can you just snake it instead thanks
Possibly, although it's not an expensive hose, with even cheaper connectors. The less abuse the better
Not how u uncoiled... lol