Re: HOSES
----- Original Message -----
From: "margaret lauterbach" <mlaute@micron.net>
To: <perennials@mallorn.com>
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 3:36 PM
Subject: RE: HOSES
> At 10:32 AM 6/5/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> >Susan, Bill, Kay and all other hose sufferers out there - hoses are
> >absolutely my pet peeve, even higher on the P&M scale than the folks who
> >feel free to pick whatever is blooming in my rockery as they amble up the
> >sidewalk. Everytime I get out to the nursery with my 100 ft. hose, it
gets
> >kinked somewhere way back there and I have to keep walking back and forth
to
> >undo the kinks as I try to continue watering the stock (at least once
daily
> >in warm weather, twice daily in hot weather). I would pay highway
robbery
> >for a kink-proof hose. I have a very old (50ft.) hose I use in the front
> >yard that never kinks, but I have no idea what brand it might be.
> >
> >Marilyn (who is also wishing she had her very own spigot out there in
the
> >nursery!)
> >
> I don't think you could spend some money any better than to have your
water
> line extended to the nursery. Get bids from at least three reputable
> plumbers. I buy kink-free hoses from Fred Meyers and haven't had problems
> with them, but they are heavy, and dragging 100 feet of that would be
> beyond my capabilities. Margaret L
>
If you use plastic, its a dead simple do-it-yourself.
Hal Lanktree
Rochester, Michigan Z6
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