Welcome back to Garden Ninja. Today I'm
going to be showing you how to fit
a seep hose but depending on the size of your
garden and the newness of your plans irrigations
really important if you just put a load of
hedging in like I have then youre going
to have to think carefully about how you're going to keep them
watered until it established now as much
as I love the trusty watering can it's
just not going to cut it on a
large scale so a seep hose allows you to
lay down some hosing and then simply use
a tap or a timer to then water the
plants for you saying you loads of
effort and time and more importantly lots
of water as well so come on let's get
cracking! So it's pretty straight forward
laying a seep hose theres a few bits of
key equipment you going to need. So one is
obviously the seep hose and this is a
specialist hose so it looks like a
normal hose but actually the surface is
permeable so when you turn the tap on it
fills up and then slowly start to seep
or leak out of the hose s you can lay it around a
border turn it on for however long you
need and it will slowly seep out meaning you
save water because you're not just
flooding the plants and slowly coming
out the plants can absorb it and then you
can turn it off. So you need a good seep hose and
also you go to need some of these pegs
these just secure the seep hose to the
ground they fit over there we push them
into the ground and I mean you turn it
on it doesn't kind of go into the crazy
snake and start whipping around
everywhere so there are two bits of
equipment and then trusty pair of
scissors when you get to the end of the
hose because you want to cut off any
excess and then put the bung back in
that you're not wasting water. What you
will need is a tap nearby to the seep
hose with the correct connector you can
click the seep hose on and turn it on
that's if you're doing it manually you
can buy automated timing systems that
fit on here that will turn the water on
and off at different times throughout
the day. Okay so you're going to want to
start your seep hose where there's a
connecter
so conveniently I've fed this one through
Make sure you get the right connector you can get
these online quite cheaply or from a DIY
store basically you need a connector
that can connect into that seep hose.
You don't really want to run the seep hose
all the way back to the top if
the taps not next to the border because whereever it
runs it will leak out because if thats
its very nature so I would recommend
only connecting it where it's going to
start then you've got to do this bit by
bit and then peg it will show you as
an example, you want it as close to the plant as possible and I
found you usually by hand is enough and don't you
need a mallet unless you're dealing with
really thick heavy clay soil and I would
recommend you cultivate your beds
before you add this because if you go
to just lay it on to compacted soil the
water will just run off. SO I'm going to do
this peg it all the way down another
top tip is to unravel your hose before
you start doing any pegging so it's
going to be a bit of you carry on film
because as i pull one end that will
spring back what do your best to get it
stretched out beforehand because it will
save your damaging your plants so I'm going to
give it a go
so now that the seep hose has been laid
and pegged to the ground it's time to
connect it to your tap and fingers
crossed and hopefully when you turn it on
if everything's connected correctly
these seep hose should literally seep so
you can see that just here it will start to
bead and then wet the ground around it
so you leave it on for however long you
need to water your plants until they're
established so I've finally finished battling
on kinking the seep hose its been fitted
turned on now its watering all these
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