Parkland® 15m Porous Soaker Hose Water Drip Irrigation Flexible Lawn Garden Watering

Purchased this after reading a number of reviews as did not want to purchase and then return. Followed the advice of other buyers:- soaked in warm water for several hours before laying out on the lawn to soften- both ends have female bi-directional flow valves to enable connecting more runs of hose. I removed the distal end, folded over and held together with a cable tie, which has been effective.- have place on the soil but understand it is possible to lightly bury under soil.So far an excellent product, I have used it most evenings as the weather has been dry and need to establish a boarder of new plants. I have noticed there are parts of the hose that spray rather than soak, which is not ideal, have simply placed leaves of small heap of soil over these parts. I would imagine this would happen with any brand of this type of hose.Would recommend

Works well, no problems after 2 weeks testing. Lots of bad reports of such soakers so decided to try at Garden Path's lower price than many other suppliers. Followed all the tips on various users experiences. Soaked wrapped hose in bowl of hot water to soften it up before unwinding carefully over my lawn making sure it was as best free of coils as possible . Left it to settle in sunshine for a day. Some small parts of hose remained collapsed so I pinched these with my fingers to make them round. Rather than buy an end blanking cap I removed the end coupling provided as a spare to use in the future and just folded the end of the hose , not too tight, and used a plastic tie to hold the fold in place. My soaker is used at the end of a 50 metre hose pipe run. To reduce pressure loss I used the open connector on the soaker not the end with the non return valve. The house water pressure is 2 to 3 bar and the soaker performance is very good indeed. I have the soaker lying freely on top of the soil. Drips are of course a little slower at the very end of the run, but at 50+15 meters I consider this very acceptable. Two weeks of constant use and I have no leaks in the hose, it is performing at the top end of my expectations.

I bought these for raised beds & in the greenhouse. They work fine in the raised beds as I cut them down to 5m lengths. In the greenhouse I tried to use longer length & they don’t work so well as most of the water leaks out of the first few metres. I’m sure a 15m length wouldn’t work but OK for a few metres on the end of a standard hose pipe.

I was hoping that this hose would be heavier than an ordinary garden hose because I want it to sink in a pond. I am using it to carry the pond airstone tubes which float and are a bright green, very unsightly. I could have bought the black airstone tubes, but they cost too much compared to this product (and it comes with two hose connectors which are always useful). Other than the fact that it also floats, the only other issue with using this drip hose for a purpose it is not manufactured for, is that it re-coils itself, so I have to use stones to both wedge it into place and weigh it down a bit so it is suspended in the water.

I had high hopes for this. I have 150ft garden with flower beds and vege patch. I set up a system of interconnecting hosepipe and soaker pipe in amongst the three beds and vege patch. Sadly, even with full water pressure, the soaker pipe only worked for the first 10 metres, as all water seeped out before it could get further down the pipe. Rather than waste it, I've now cut the pipe into shorter sections and used various end caps and connectors so I can connect my regular hosepipe to shorter sections of soaker pipe. A bit more fiddly and time consuming as I have to connect and disconnect different sections at a time, but the shorter lengths do work as they should.

An excellent idea. We just have one length running along a flower bed. During this hot weather spell it doesn’t really soak the ground enough, during cooler wetter weather it works well as a top up.My elderly mother has three joined together to go all the way round her garden which doesn’t work so well. Her water pressure may not be good enough to support that much. Weaving it around plants resulted in a lot of kinks which it took a few times using it to sort out and I think the plastic hose liner won’t survive long. I would not leave it out during the winter. Needs to be a bit more substantial.

I thought I may have cracked it, I needed 30m so I bought two 15m with the view I would run a length of normal hose to the half way point and connect both pieces with a 3 way connector and run one piece in one direction and the other piece the opposite way . Opened up one of the hoses and gave it a test run. The reviews are true, water floods out for the first metre or so, then hardly anything at all. I even cut the one piece into two and blanked off the ends, it’s still just as bad with 2 x 7.5m lengths. So my advice is steer clear, don’t bother. To rub salt in the wound I wanted to return the unopened hose but have to pay the return fee which will probably cost almost as much as the hose itself, so I am left with 2 pieces of useless hose on the garden, which will never be used, I will have to carry on watering manually, and one not even worth opening. Might sell it on eBay.

For the price and my need for a quick holiday watering solution I cannot grumble. Prompt delivery, uncoiled over the flower beds it worked well with a timer valve and gave a even bleed of water. There was one small hole that spurted at a greater rate so I gaffer taped as a quick fix and guess some rubber glue will fix this at a later date.