What is it?
I notice that several of you are very happy with it, but I can’t go back and trawl through the posts looking for the name.
Am planning on a trip to the local Mitre10 for a new hose and thought to pick up this attachment at the same time. Hope they all fit in the backpack as I am on two wheels ATM…
if you are referrring to the spray which sucks up fertilisers as the high pressure water passes over.. it is a plastic fitting which is fitted to may hose and spray bottles of fertilisers and herbicides in all supermarkets.
No, I think it is a plain watering-can-type head that attaches to the hose…
Was that the wand, Dinetta?
I think it may be the wand, SueBK. I’m reasonably certain Pomolo has one, likewise Pepe and perhaps Aquarium…
similarly a rose or a wand are available at the superrmarket and at any garden centre.
I have them Dinetta. Use them all the time. I don’t have a favourite brand like Aquarium. I just buy them when I see them at a reasonable price. I use the ones that you can adjust the pressure from light spray to heavy spray. We have 6 of them. Sounds excessive I know but we’ve got taps all over the property.
I don’t use anything else to water the gardens. Specially great for hanging baskets and hard to reach plants.
it matters not the semantics of what one uses to do the job of being able to water what .. where.
the matter is .. to get the job done properly at the least effort possible.. otherwise there is no time left to enjoy your creative gardening.
I think it’s the Dramm watering wand that Aquarium was referring to, which has all the good point’s previously listed and gets the job done quickly. I would love one but they arn’t available my side of town.
Happy Potter said:
I think it’s the Dramm watering wand that Aquarium was referring to, which has all the good point’s previously listed and gets the job done quickly. I would love one but they arn’t available my side of town.
or people could even just set up sprinklar systems and or drip irragtion if they dont have the water problems.
the matter is .. to get the job done properly at the least effort possible.. otherwise there is no time left to enjoy your creative gardening.
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In my case,being able to water sufficiently and efficiently, just to keep the darn things alive, is creative gardening!!
I lost nearly all my castellemons (F7) during the drought, because I refused to water them…also I don’t water the “lawn” during winter as it is too cold for the tropical grass to do anything…I don’t water unless I need to (which may be different to when the plants need it…that’s how it goes)…but I have come to appreciate, as I ponder my hydrophobic front patch, that with vegetables, regular waterings are a must, and I tend to forget sprinklers. With timers, my family and I hold the record for snapping the most timers at the tap…
My solution is to buy one more big (18mm) hose, with brass connectors/fittings, and then I’ll have a hose on every outside tap (including the rainwater, which has the sole remaining timer on it). So to water the vegetables, currently one basil plant, I want to water in such a way that I know it has been done, enjoy doing it, and not waste water.
The same goes for the potplants, which I maintain as an extension of creative effort in the garden…
As various members of this forum, whom I have come to “:know” over about, oh, 4 -5 years Aquarium? Pomolo? have expressed solid satisfaction with this watering apparatus, I have decided it might be worth my while…and $$
:)
I am a huge fan of drip watering, but our water pressure can go from polypipe-splitting to none at all and vice versa, in a matter of an hour….
Happy Potter said:
I think it’s the Dramm watering wand that Aquarium was referring to, which has all the good point’s previously listed and gets the job done quickly. I would love one but they arn’t available my side of town.
Thanks for that, Happy…I’ll look it up on the internet…don’t you just LURVE the internet???
:)
veg gardener said:
Happy Potter said:
I think it’s the Dramm watering wand that Aquarium was referring to, which has all the good point’s previously listed and gets the job done quickly. I would love one but they arn’t available my side of town.
or people could even just set up sprinklar systems and or drip irragtion if they dont have the water problems.
I got the water problems, Veg…see my later post on this thread…
Dinetta said:
veg gardener said:
Happy Potter said:
I think it’s the Dramm watering wand that Aquarium was referring to, which has all the good point’s previously listed and gets the job done quickly. I would love one but they arn’t available my side of town.
or people could even just set up sprinklar systems and or drip irragtion if they dont have the water problems.
I got the water problems, Veg…see my later post on this thread…
veg gardener said:
Dinetta said:
veg gardener said:
Happy Potter said:
I think it’s the Dramm watering wand that Aquarium was referring to, which has all the good point’s previously listed and gets the job done quickly. I would love one but they arn’t available my side of town.
or people could even just set up sprinklar systems and or drip irragtion if they dont have the water problems.
I got the water problems, Veg…see my later post on this thread…
dinetta, if you want i can take photos of my set up i currtently only have 2 gardens with out sprinklers we only water the veggies and fruit trees and thats it and all the other trees not the grass.
If you wouldn’t mind going to the trouble, I would like to see photos of the set-up, Veg
:)
>I am a huge fan of drip watering, but our water pressure can go from polypipe-splitting to none at all and vice versa, in a matter of an hour….
You need a pressure regulator….
colliewa said:
>I am a huge fan of drip watering, but our water pressure can go from polypipe-splitting to none at all and vice versa, in a matter of an hour….You need a pressure regulator….
I do? Is this different to the pressure pumps we have for the house?
Even though our tank pump has enough pressure to send a strong jet out the hose I still find it’s not enough to successfully use a wand. Strange.
A pressure regulator keeps the output pressure to what you set it at. So if you need 2 or 3 PSI (about 14 to 21KPa) for your drippers, after you set it it will maintain that pressure. It is not a pump, more like an automatically varying restrictor..
>Even though our tank pump has enough pressure to send a strong jet out the hose I still find it’s not enough to successfully use a wand. Strange.
Must be missing a bit of the old magic BL.
colliewa said:
A pressure regulator keeps the output pressure to what you set it at. So if you need 2 or 3 PSI (about 14 to 21KPa) for your drippers, after you set it it will maintain that pressure. It is not a pump, more like an automatically varying restrictor..
Thank you very much for that great piece of information, CollieWA. I just wish I had known about this for the past 5 years…might have got a vegetable garden growing sooner…better late than never… :)
well I had a look at the bed this morning…had to do something as the basil plant was wrapping it’s leaves around itself…I found that by making a 4” hole in the soil with my finger I could stuff the hose in the hole and the water went somewhere but not back up along the surface. so I made quite a few holes around the basil, like about 5, then sent the little sprinkler on it (you know the little round metal ones, with just the one hole?).
Just before I came in to the office, I poked more holes (with an aluminium brace from an insect frame) in the quarter that had the potatoes, then I left the sprinkler on them. The birds were fighting me for a bath in the old plastic bin lid on the centre of that garden so the sprinkler is approved by the local avian population…hopefully the sprinkle will trickle down the holes and re-moisturise between the surface mulch (hydrophobic) and the depth of the hole…
If not, I’ll get Sonny Joe to turn the soil over with a fork tomorrow morning…good job for a 14 y o…and we’ll see just how the soil moisture profile is working…
the old potato quarter is going to become the new 3 sisters bed…I’ll get some new corn seeds ready to plant after the Christmas break…
Dinetta said:
well I had a look at the bed this morning…had to do something as the basil plant was wrapping it’s leaves around itself…I found that by making a 4” hole in the soil with my finger I could stuff the hose in the hole and the water went somewhere but not back up along the surface. so I made quite a few holes around the basil, like about 5, then sent the little sprinkler on it (you know the little round metal ones, with just the one hole?).Just before I came in to the office, I poked more holes (with an aluminium brace from an insect frame) in the quarter that had the potatoes, then I left the sprinkler on them. The birds were fighting me for a bath in the old plastic bin lid on the centre of that garden so the sprinkler is approved by the local avian population…hopefully the sprinkle will trickle down the holes and re-moisturise between the surface mulch (hydrophobic) and the depth of the hole…
If not, I’ll get Sonny Joe to turn the soil over with a fork tomorrow morning…good job for a 14 y o…and we’ll see just how the soil moisture profile is working…
the old potato quarter is going to become the new 3 sisters bed…I’ll get some new corn seeds ready to plant after the Christmas break…
i remember being the age of 10 digging with a garden fork (in the soft ground), i have helped dad around this place since i could walk.
i ended up buying a dramm watering wand, and am very happy with how quickly i can water all of the garden beds. the amount of water it delivers in a short time forces the soil to drink. watering through a thick layer of straw mulch is also no problem.
the alternative to an effective hand waterer is drip irrigation however, as my garden is still changing, and different plantings need different amounts of water, i opted to get the good hand watering unit.
i got the model with the easy turn on/off lever, and the longest wand, so can reach places easily…like the one at the top of this dramm website page http://www.rainwand.com/touch-n-flow.html
it cost around $60…i’ve never looked back. had to go to a specialty gardening store to get one. not sure if mitre 10 would stock them.
those one look pretty good and worth the $60.00.
aquarium said:
i ended up buying a dramm watering wand, and am very happy with how quickly i can water all of the garden beds. the amount of water it delivers in a short time forces the soil to drink. watering through a thick layer of straw mulch is also no problem.
the alternative to an effective hand waterer is drip irrigation however, as my garden is still changing, and different plantings need different amounts of water, i opted to get the good hand watering unit.
i got the model with the easy turn on/off lever, and the longest wand, so can reach places easily…like the one at the top of this dramm website page http://www.rainwand.com/touch-n-flow.html
it cost around $60…i’ve never looked back. had to go to a specialty gardening store to get one. not sure if mitre 10 would stock them.
Thanks for the response Aquarium…
You never know what you might find at the local Mitre10…it started off as supplying the tradies/home hardware but expanded to department store and furniture, plus a few pots of plants at the door…now the department store has been closed, the furniture is limited to outdoors stuff, the tradies/home hardwares are still catered for but the gardening section is the biggest money spinner…if I get time I’ll look around at the big smoke tomorrow…