Indoor Gardening and Houseplants: Indoor Watering Hose for bringing plants in this fall?, 1 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
I had cataract surgery in Dec 2019 (right eye) and Jan 2020 (left eye). The surgery center did not want me to lift anything heavier than 10 pounds or bend lower than horizontal at the waist. That is hard to do for watering chores so I hooked up a 50 foot lightweight hose (one of those blue ones from Walmart or Sam\'s Club - H2O Flex) to our basement shower (an easy adapter from Home Depot (shower hose to garden hose is all was needed). The hose was too short to go from the shower to the farthest corner of the basement though so I replaced the 50\' with a 75\' and I have kept it that way since I set it up. It not only helped me out during the two weeks of light duty after each surgery but sped up the watering chores immensely. It sure beats filling 3 gallon kitty litter containers and then carrying nearly 25 pounds of water throughout the basement. The one thing about the container was adding fertilizer to the water every once in a while.

I was coiling the hose into a Rubbermaid bin but now just loop it in a figure 8 pattern on the floor of the bathroom (basement) for easy unwinding.

PS: unwind it to the place you want to water before turning on the water since carrying a hose through different rooms is much easier being empty than being full and heavier.