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MY RANT
August 2009
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Hosed Again
Okay, so at the end of my last Rant I said I was going to launch an all out attack the fertilizer industry. Well guess what? I changed my mind. Trust me, I’ll get back to that important subject, but for now I want to rant about something that’s caused me a good deal of frustration for years, and has finally gotten to the point where I just can’t take it anymore.
And that something, my friends and fellow gardeners, is hose-end sprayers. Excited, aren’t you?
Given the scorching temperatures in my area, I’ve been forced to water at least once, and sometimes twice a day. And I can accept that. After all, I choose to live in this occasionally insufferable environment.
What I can’t accept, however, is the fact that after spending literally hundreds of dollars on literally dozens of hose-end sprayers, I’ve yet to find one that’s worth a darn. Oh sure, they work for a while, but before the end of the summer season they invariably begin to leak or fall apart.
And I’m not singling out a single brand here. I’m talking about all of them – names brands, not-so-name brands, brands made in China and Italy and Germany and the good old US of A. Believe me, I’ve tried them all, from those that emit only one spray pattern to those that offer a variety of patterns. And in my experience, they’re all crap. And I’m sick and tired of shelling out money on watering devices that don’t work.
So while I’m ordinarily the one offering advice, I now turn to you instead. Does anyone know of a decent hand-held, hose-end sprayer, one that’s built to last? If so, please let me know. In the meantime, I’ll rely on the one thing I can trust not to fall apart and yet deliver a varied and fairly consistent spray when applied to the end of the hose – my thumb.
