What is a Flat Garden Hose?
A flat garden hose is an increasing popular choice for many amateur and professional gardeners. Unlike the standard garden hose, flat styles only inflate when water runs through the hose. This makes storing and recoiling the hose significantly simpler, and when water isn’t present in the hose, carrying the flat type is easier because they are lightweight. It’s possible to find a flat garden hose in various lengths. Common lengths include 25 feet (7.62 m) and 50 feet (15.24 m). Other sizes may be available online or in home improvement stores with large selections. Some flat hoses allow people watering to keep the hose on a spool, also called a hose cassette or reel, while they work. Usually hose cassettes are only used for storing the hose, but the lighter weight of the flat hose makes them fairly comfortable to port around. Unfortunately, a few flat garden hose types don’t work very well when they’re fully wrapped around the cassette. Reels, spools or cassettes for a flat garden hose
Most of us gardeners have grown up using traditional pipe garden hoses – the round ones that resemble over-sized spaghetti. We’ve fought with the kinks, the wanton disobedience when trying to wrap them up and even questioned the amount of lead that some contain. They are the quintessential tool in our yards but they could be usurped by the growing demand for a flat garden hose. Yes, the flat garden hose already exists – and have done so for a few decades. But their popularity has never taken off for a number of reasons. First, the initial options were cheap and of poor quality. They were very easily punctured and fittings and repair kits were either unavailable or hard to obtain. Most of the offerings were plastic and seamed with glue which meant they didn’t take long to leak or rupture completely. The second reason for their lack of market penetration as they were too darned hard to roll up. In the packet they looked “snug as a bug” but once you’ve used them it was like trying to get
