Love the "director" Gal, she's making sure the important details are added!

Thanks! Nice to hear from normal folks with dogs and imperfect garden.

Maybe you covered this in another video. The soaker hose really needs to be flushed when first installed, and every time the inlet end has been left open. Flushing consists of opening the far end(s), and letting water run through like a regular hose. This washes out manufacturing debris, dirt, bugs, etc., any of which can clog the pores in the soaker hose.

So much easier than setting up drip irrigation with a kit, and much more affordable. Thank you!

Nice calmly done video. I like hole attitude how you did the demonstration, and well family oriented feeling when watching it, yes those dog are real cute.

Excellent video. Really helped me figure out how to proceed with my irrigation system without having to reinvent the wheel. Thank you.

Thank you. I had trouble finding the elbows, but saw your reply and just ordered on Amazon. This is a great idea and informative video!

This helps a lot. I had the hose looped around the base of each tomato plant. Then pull ties formed the loop. Used some sticks to hold in place. A lot of work and the hose is not that pliable, with fragile stalks Got incredible yield however with 10 Heirloom tomatoes versus watering from above. Will try this next year.Thanks!

Great idea. You guys are joyful to watch. Thanks.

Idk why but I really enjoyed this video. I think I figured out how I'm going to water my garden for next year. Thank you.

Super helpful! I was given lots of soaker hoses and was wondering how and what to do with them this season..nice💯

I'm definitely using this idea this year. It gets cumbersome trying to make soaker hose bend 180° in raised beds. Thanks for the tip! Subscribed.

I gotta do this next spring!! Big garden plans in the works!

Love your yellow lab! Had one for 13 years, got my son a chocolate. We love them 😍

Thanks for the video, most of the videos I have found are for drip irrigation, I have soaker hoses and I wish to use those for my new raised beds. Thanks again for the great video.

That dog is so cool. Great video guys

Brilliant simplicity is genius!

Thank you for this very informative video! You really helped clear up some of my questions about what type of hose we need for our herb garden. Love your little family, you had us all laughing over here.

Just discovered this site. Good info presented in an interesting practical way. Love the dog.

Pausing the video after 1:45 to say you are awesome people. Great video so far

Excellent video. Very user friendly and easy to extrapolate.

Thank you. It was extremely helpful.

Funny, Adorable AND Practical video. Lovin it :) Gonna have to try that out!

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, can't Thank You enough!! New gardener, got tired of dragging the hose around, can't afford irrigation system. This looks affordable.

Thanks for the tip on the connectors. I've used 1/2" to 5/8" soaker hose for years, but always had to stake them in place because of the sharp bends. :-)

Great video! One follow up point to one of the things you mentioned about when to water: since you are using soaker hose, you don't have to worry about wetting down any leaves on the plants. That means that the typical watering schedule can change. Sure, turning on the hoses in the morning is okay, but it is actually better to turn on the soakers in the evening, just after sundown. I just finished the Master Gardener program at my local Ag Extension, and that was the word I heard. Same with drip irrigation. Water in the morning if you're gonna get the leaves wet; otherwise, do it in the evening after a day of drying out the soil. It makes sense. But again, great video! I was hunting around for soaker hose layout examples, and this was perfect! Many thanks....

New subscriber here:) I have never had any kind of irrigation for my flowerbeds, but seeing as I have about 30 more years of working in the beds (IF I am lucky), I figured it is soooo time to try drip. My adult daughter says it is not worth the hassle, but she isn't here watering hours a day with me;)

Been watching gardening videos / irrigations systems for the new garden I will make this next year...this is the best I seem, only thing is, I am not sure where i will find those elbows yet. but thanks for sharing even if this video has few years, it has good advice.

Very helpful thanks. Love the doggy back ground heavy breathing😆

This is great and well demonstrated. Thanks

Very nice diy video... Helped me a lot.

Thank you for the idea. I will definitely do this nexxt year.

I really enjoyed your video and learned a several tips. Thank you.

This was really helpful, thank you!

Great video. Solved by layout questions. Thank you very much!!

What a cute puppy!!

Excellent video. Thanks for making it!

Thank you! Doing it tomorrow.

Brilliant thinking, Eric.

Thank you! This is amazing!

Thanku. D questions help too bcz they get instant answers

Excellent idea! Thank you! New sub

Thanks, very helpful

Love the dogs, and I really enjoyed the video.

Very good. Thank you.

thank you! just subscribed, great video.

A very good and educational/informational video. 😊 thank you for making and posting it.

Super creative!

Great tutorial.

Thanks for sharing

Super useful! Thanks 👍

Great video thanks!

You did a great job but your dog was the best. Especially when you turned on the water. Thx.

Great video, thanks a lot!

Love that dog!

Thanks a lot.... it really helps

Will Do! Thx again!

I love your dog!!

You said “go get the ball”. And my 3 whippets went dashing outside! Yes! Thanks for the video, I needed a good lesson and this was great!

Thank you, great explanation, love the labs, putting in irrigation this summer in the uk, may have to wait a few weeks for enough sun to soften the pipe tho..😋

I ran a similar setup in my backyard container garden of tomato plants. I topped it off with pine straw mulch to hold in the moisture. I watered for 15 min every morning and had tremendous results.

How neat!

Thank brother

Thanks. Good idea to cut the soaker hose.

Hey, we have the same middle name! And I've had one of those soaker hoses hanging in my garage for how long now? Great idea. Great video. I like the manifold on this one better than your other. Simpler and quicker to put together. This idea has been on my project list since I watched your earlier videos. You know that project list - the one that's out the door and goes around the block. Most of my to-do's have sleeping bags and tents 😉 Anyways, thanks for another great video and the labs of course.

Thank you; greatly appreciated!

Perfect timing, I need to get some irrigation out to the tree in the orchard. I was thinking making rings out of soaker hose and then linking them together with underground irrigation piping.

Perfect!

Thanks for a great video, Eric. I will add this to my garden.

Perhaps you are not in a freeze zone. For those watchers who are, the soaker (weeping) hose does not need to be removed for the winter, as the water runs out of it. However, the pressure control and filter at the faucet should be brought in for the winter, and hoses or solid (pvc, copper, steel) pipe must be completely drained.

For sealing up the ends I like to use a lighter to heat it up then I squeeze the ends together with pliers or gloves. Bare hands work but it can burn your fingers depending on how hot it is (learned from experience). It might even work on sealing it to the connectors instead of using ties but I haven't tried that.

Cool, thank just the video I wanted to see

thank you.

How long do you run the soaker hose?

Great video! Thanks for sharing......now I've to get me a Lab dog 😂😂😂👍🏼

They also make a 1/4 inch soaker hose thst can be installed to regular drip line when the water is needed in certain locations like around trees. Cheers

I use soaker hose now and it works great. I have two beds in the front of my house and a small garden out back. I put everything on timers. It does not matter how long you water, just as long as the ground stays slightly damp. You adjust as you need to. I have a 4 X 8 garlic bed that I water two times a day for two minutes each. I have 50 foot of beans in 5, 10 foot rows and 5 tomato and I water the garden 2 times a day, 10 minutes each. When the temp went up in the high 80's and low 90's I increased the water cycle to 15 minutes. My garden is covered with wood mulch and i have no weeds and it is easy to tell if my ground is wet enough because I want to find dampness several feet from my plants too. I put two zone times on everything. And I have found there is no need to cut the hose, just run it in an S pattern all across the bed, side to side and space it 12 to 15 inches apart. If you have too much hose at the end, cut that off and use that end to extend another bed or on a small flower bed. Be creative..................! Think in zones of watering. I have up to 100 foot on my garden zone and I even have a portion of it going over my compost pile to keep it damp as well. Yesterday I hooked up a siphon on my garden zone and now when it waters, I also fertilize it at the same time. I make it very weak and the plants love it. I use the Mittleider weekly feed fertilizer and put about 1 1/2 inches of the fertilizer in the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket and let it dissolve. It took a couple of days for that to happen. Then I poured half of that in another 5 gallon bucket, making it 10 gallons. Then I took about a pint and put that in 5 gallons of water and put my siphon hose in that. it is a very weak solution but the plants love it. I can increase the strength gradually if needed. Have fun!

I have a 400 gallon tank under my deck that I fill with rain water. It is a bit higher than the garden, so last year I tried running a regular hose from the tank to the garden, then a soaker hose from that at a bed. No luck - not enough pressure. I calculated it is only about 4 pounds per square inch. Looking online there are emitters that will work at that low pressure, but I have yet to buy and try them.

I use a 3/8" wire nut stuffed in the end to cap the dead ends.

At the End of the Season, do you disconnect the hoses and remove them from the Garden? Excellent Video.

Great video and system! I just got a soaker hose and was using it in rows of coils 😂 I'm wondering what would happen if you removed the blue washers. Would it drip faster? I don't want to wait several hours to turn off the hose.

WWWOOWW!!! What a useful and doable idea. THAAANK YOU.......Where can we purchase the connectors???? (here in Toronto-Canada?)

I've been looking at drip irrigation systems. This is the first time I heard that some of the equipment needs to be removed before winter freezes, I live in Maine and this would need to be done. I don't have much to water so maybe I'll go with soaker hoses. Thanks!

Hey brother I'm a Subscriber I like your videos And props to she asked a lot of questions That we might want to ask I don't know if it's planned I think she does it great job OK my question I really need an answer to this I'm fixing To do my drip irrigation and I want to try some with the soccer hosoccer house your video is 6 years oh how is the soccer hose working how long did it work I've seen stories about the quarter inch soak or hose or just pop and holes in them Looking forward to your response brother thank you

Great video....Love the dogs and you folks make it real and doable. I never finish a job with one trip to the garden store so I felt like I found my tribe. SUGGESTION...when you put the first soaker hoses together you linked the long runs with short pieces of soaker hose perpendicular to those runs... if you used the end with the connecting soaker hose bits next to your trellis wouldn't you save having to add another run just for trellis? Just a thought. I HAVE SUBSCRIBED! Keep on gardening. :)

What do you have growing up the wire/rope? I like that.

Just subbed!!!

Perfect team, even with doggie. But great video , thanks.

How do you put multiple raised beds on a single hose? Do you create the soaker hose grid for each bed, and then cut up a regular hose to connect them all? Will the pressure be enough to push water through 4 beds? We have two 8x3 beds, a 10x1 bed, and a 6x2 bed.

Can I use garden staples to hold down the hose rather than cutting? Or is the ground too soft that they won't hold? My first garden this year and a less than novice in growing anything. Thank you for the great video.

Just curious how difficult would it be to change over my sprinklers that are in my raised garden area to a drip system? The sprinklers aren’t reaching all my veggies as much as I would like… thanks in advance! Great video and cute doggos!!!

Very helpful - and happy to see another lab with a fetch fetish - they do love their toys!

Such a great source for relevant information! Do you guys have a donation link?

So to understand you cannot simply coil the hose around the bed? It will kink? I'm starting to garden in the spring and looking for ideas.

So to understand you cannot simply coil the hose around the bed? It will kink? I'm starting to garden in the spring and looking for ideas

I love your dogs!

Thanks for another great video. Who is you camerawoman? And is she in any of your videos?

Thanks for the great info. Do you have any ideas about how to keep from having to move the garden hose every time you mow? And do you just move the main garden hose from bed to bed?

How do you connect the Metal ends that connect to your hose and can you connect to 1/2 plastic tubing that would run between raised beds?

Excellent video! Question, is it recommended to use metal, wood, or a plastic dowel rod as an end cap? Yours looks like wood but I can't exactly tell. Wanted to know before I purchase it. Thanks!