Raindrip 052050 Poly Drip Watering Hose

This poly drip watering hose will work great for our garden. Thanks

I use this product as a pool heater- zip tie the tubing in a big 500’ coil to a plastic pallet and have a submersible pump grab water from my pool, run it through the coils in the sun, then back to the pool. It works amazing and the tubing has not failed after 2 years in the direct sun. Folks that have complained about difficulty joining this hose to other attachments have either not used hot enough water, or need to try using a hair dryer to increase elasticity, as I’ve done MANY couplings and never had an issue. Working out the kinks in the inevitable twists from the coil can be a pain, but is very manageable, especially if you cut the hose, work out the twists, then use a 1/2” to 1/2” male coupler to join both ends together. There are loads of uses for this, but I’ve got 3,000’ of it heating my pool for a fraction of the cost of much less efficient premade heaters.

I run it along my chain link fence to heat up my swimming pool. On a good hot sunny day the water temperature can increase by a max of 10'C. Usually I get 4 to 6'C increase on a normal 21'C day. Be careful it will twist and kink easily so plan it out before you unroll it. It to me a long time to untwist the 500 ft while I was hanging it on my fence.

This drip irrigation part is alternative to the kits and brand sold at Lowe’s and it’s a fraction of Lowe’s pricing. We started with the Lowe’s kit and after deciding to convert our 30’x120’ garden to drip to provide better irrigation and save water, we needed a more affordable solution. We bought 1/4” and 1/2” tubing on Amazon, drippers, and all the 1/4” & 1/2” couplings and fittings. We installed 300 drippers on 6 zones in the garden. 100 drippers on 2 zones in the front landscaping. The 1/4” polyethylene line on Amazon is a little tougher to slide over fittings, but 3 seconds under a heat gun it slides over easily (don’t go more than 3 sec). 50 drippers is about the max that can function on a traditional garden hose bib. We run each zone for about 30 min daily here in Florida (we haven’t had rain in a while and soil drains quickly). We were running sprinklers for much longer and the plants still weren’t getting enough water. A few days on drippers was quite a noticeable difference. Buying all the parts on Amazon saved us 1/2 or more on the project.

If you take the time to unroll it properly works great.