First, a disclaimer, since my old-style journalistic policy is not to accept samples of garden products or plants, even for my giveaways, and because I almost never write about a product:
I got my first length of this particular hose when it was a prototype, in an inadvertent swap with the man developing it. Jeff Thomas of Water Right Inc. emailed me when I left my job and started A Way to Garden; he’d heard I was consulting, and wondered if I might be free to help with something. We met, and though we never did work together, that morning I swapped some of my ideas for a bagel, tea—and a piece of the most unusual-looking garden hose I’d ever seen.
I know more than the average gardener about garden hose, because at Martha Stewart, I worked intensively with manufacturers on her original K-Mart line. Plus, I own many, many hundreds of feet of hose, all of which I thought was top quality to match my tough site—but I nevertheless have been dissatisfied with every foot.
Even the very best—sporting claims like “kink-free” and multiple “ply” (the layers of reinforcing materials that make up the tube, up to eight of them), or better-than-average fittings (still mostly junk), and maybe even dyed a color that didn’t make my teeth ache–even
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