Today we are going to share with you one of our favorite garden hacks. Hose corners. Unless you are one of the lucky few who has water lines or drip irrigation to literally anything you could possibly want to water or irrigate, you probably deal with hoses at some point. They are frustrating!
If you are like most people with gardens and livestock, you have hoses everywhere. You probably spend a lot of time dragging hoses around. And then you spend equally as much time going back to find out what your hose is stuck on. You may also spend an annoying chunk of time going back and forth moving hoses bit by bit to keep them from dragging into your beds and crushing your plants.
We tried using various stakes and sturdy perennials planted on corners to try to remedy the problem. Typically, the plants end up getting damaged anyway. Stakes will keep the hoses where they belong, but hoses tend to be sticky. Hoses tend to get stuck on the stakes and don’t really pull around them negating most of the perceived benefit. Stakes can also be offensively obtrusive to your view and inconvenient to move.
If you start messing with hoses, it becomes pretty obvious that you really needed rollers to effectively keep the hose moving freely. Finally, it dawned on us what the perfect inexpensive solution to our problems was. Why did we not think of this sooner?!
Pipe pieces over rebar pieces make the perfect hose corners.
They create simple, inexpensive rollers to keep your hose moving. We opted to use PVC pipe as we already had scraps of it sitting around so it cost nothing. However, you could also use metal pipes for a cleaner more attractive look. These hose corners are effective and very easy to pull out to move if you need to.
To make them you will need short pieces of rebar. The exact length required will depend on how sturdy your soil is and what you’re pulling against them. Ours are about 3 feet long and pounded about 18” into the ground. Then you need a piece of pipe that will fit around the rebar and spin freely. If the rebar isn’t study enough for the amount of force you are pulling with you could use the same concept with a larger pipe around a T-post.
These hose corners can be placed at the edge of beds, corners of buildings or anywhere else your hose tends to hang up or jump to places you don’t want it. Though they aren’t perfect, we find that they work very well and reduce the frustration of watering significantly. The main problem we find is that they work best if you are pulling your hoses around them at a 45 degree angle not a 90 degrees. Nonetheless, they improve our quality of life significantly!
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