New Water System

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One of my noted problems with the garden the past few years is that I am not very good at watering when needed. This is a problem with my front yard planters, also. The root of the problem is that it is a royal pain. To turn the water on in the front yard, I have to crawl between the porch post and wall and then step down to reach the spigot. The hose is a pain to unreel. For the back garden, I had to drag out the heavy rubber hose into the garden, do my watering and then drag it back to the house. Not a quick process. And my hands would be black from the oxidized rubber coming off the hose.

This year I bought three hose racks with spigots. In the front I’ll install the rack directly opposite the front door at the end of the lilacs. I’ll run a heavy rubber hose to the front spigot. I have a 25-foot light flexible hose on the rack, and I’ll leave the spigot on the house on and turn the water on and off at the rack.

This is the front spigot and rack right of the front porch. The blue hose will be buried under the mulch.

In the back, I’ll have one rack in the garden, and the otherwhere the existing hose rack is. I have a splitter at the outside spigot and have rubber hoses going to each rack. There will be a 50-foot light flexible hose on each rack. Again, as in the front, I’ll leave the house spigot on and control the water at the new racks.

Here is the spigot for the garden. I might move this somewhere else nearby as might make the path too tight for a wheelbarrow. I’ll bury the hose once I have the location set.