Raindrip 015005T 1/4-Inch by 50-Foot Soaker Hose Tubing for Drip Irrigation, Use in Vegetable Garden, Planters, and Borders, 50-Foot, Black

Fantastic! I have a small garden area without a nearby water outlet. Tired of carrying multiple jugs of water, I decided to create a drip system. Purchased a 10 gal lidded trash barrel, a light weight plastic screw in/through faucet fitting, this drip hose and a package of tiny hose fittings to split lines, create right angles and seal off ends. I already had a light weight plastic 'Y' faucet splitter. Used some flat rubber to create large gaskets and epoxy them to seal around the hole I made low on the water barrel, screwed in the faucet parts & tested for leaks. Laid out my waterline and cut & bent pieces from wire coat hangers to hold the hoses in place. Bucket was mounted on a 1 ft high stool on my front porch (3 steps up from garden) and 1 foot of regular hose dropped the water sufficiently to the splitter. The gravity feed gave sufficient pressure to allow water to flow out the ends of all 4 lines (from each side of the 'Y' splitter I had run 2 ft of drip hose before splitting each of those lines into 2). Fantastically simple! And I'm able to fill up my 10 gal water barrel at my leisure - and I can sit on my porch with morning coffee while I allow half the full barrel to water my garden... and NO muddy feet!

I completely redid my garden watering system, flower beds, lily and rose post, plus much more. I have ordered several hundred feet to accomplish the redo. This is much more efficient and cheaper than expensive and unreliable dripper heads. Very easy to install too!! I use a swamp cooler water valve, 1/4" hard drip line from the valve connected/spliced to soaker hoses to water where needed. This single valve waters 25 planter pots and flower beds utilizing over100 feet of line all at once!! This is only one of 4 systems I have set up. This has taken the worry out of watering plants effectively vs using dripper heads. I wish I had this years ago!!!!

Works well for my tomato plants. But the hose seems to have very small holes in it that cause the water to spray out in places, rather than dribble out. But there are not enough to cause a problem when watering. My tomato plants seem to like it, especially during these dog days of summer.

I had been looking for a good way to automatically water my indoor potted plants. I had tried regular drip emitters, misting emitters, and halo emitters and they all fell short of what I needed until I found this. This stuff works great!! My plants are in 3 and 5 gallon fabric pots, so I simply made a little 8” ring using a T fitting to join it together and supply the water from a small pump I put in. Works better than expected. The whole pot is getting soaked now. I didn’t even think they made this stuff in 1/4” but I’m very happy I found it.

First I bought two drip irrigations systems that took hours to install and didn't work. The cost of having someone install the drip irrigation was going to cost over $2000. The photos show how we did it ourselves. Knowing what we know, it would take about 8 hours and $100 to replicate our 33 planter setup, more if we have to replace plastic valves with brass fixtures. It took close to 100 feet of tubing to do all of the planters.

I purchased 3 rolls of the 1/4" soaker hose for my garden from Home Depot. After getting everything setup I opened the value and almost no water came through. At first I thought maybe the length of my run was too much for the 1 valve. So I split it up onto 2 valves but it still was getting little to no water?!?! I then tried removing the pressure valve and increasing he flow rate. No difference except my 1/2 fittings blew out. Finally, I researched soaker hoses online and found all are not equal. I heard about Raindrip and gave it a try since I found it here on Amazon. I replaced all the HD hose I purchased with the Raindrip and started over with all on one valve. Turned system on and immediately had water flow for all area! Wish I had researched before buying, but who knew there was soaker hose that doesn't work? Do yourself a favor and just by the Raindrip hose and save yourself time and aggravation.

It works perfectly as described. Recommend!

UPDATE: Believe the reviews. This stuff is a FAIL. My garden and my trees were dying. I had the run time cycle maxed out. So, basically 3 weeks into the season, in 116F heat, I had to replace all of it with tubing from a different source. I did not bother to read the reviews before buying it. After all, it's just soaker tubing. How can someone mess that up. I buy 12-foot, half-inch soaker tubing at the dollar store that works as expected. Lesson learned, again ...it's from RainDrip; not to be confused with the superior quality products from RainBird. Something is just not right with this lot. The tubing is much thicker than that previously used. I have used 1/4-inch soaker tubing for years. I replace it at the beginning of every summer. With this tubing however, the amount of time required to soak a pot in 8-minutes, now takes over 30-minutes. Plus, since the flow is so slow, most of the water just evaporates straight off of the tubing. This causes alkali crystals to form on it quickly, further impeding flow. Water pressure verified constant. Potential water flow verified excellent.