A reader recently wrote in asking for ideas to repurpose a leaky garden hose. To my surprise, there are quite a few!
Photo by dno1967.
Furniture. If you’re skilled, like this artist, try your hand at using a hose to make a new chair.
Refashion a handle. Works well for anything heavy – a bucket, luggage, a box with a homemade handle. Cut a section of the hose and slit it down the side. Slip it over the handle and use duct tape or electrical tape to secure it shut. This sounds a lot like something my Grandpa would do.
Garden hose wreath. Pull out your crafty hat for this one! Take a look at some examples here and here.
Leaky, holey hose? If you can’t beat em, join em! Make a soaker hose for your garden.
And, quite possibly one of the best ideas: fix it! After all “repair” is considered the 4th “R” after reduce, reuse, recycle.
Have you reused an old or leaky garden hose? Leave a comment and tell us how!
*chuckle* I am re-using one right now! The nozzle kept popping out of the hose when used with the sprayer, so my husband put it back in there and then squeezed the living daylights out of it. It stayed on but water starting squirting out from various different spots on the length of the hose! hehehe It was quite refreshing to walk around with it and water my plants, never knowing when I’d get squirted by the hose! : )) Then yesterday, the nozzle popped off again, this time I just switched it with the hose out front and now use it as a soaker hose. Waste not, want not! : ))
Have a great day!
absolutely loved your blog, i will pass by more often
Thanks for linking up to us at TwoHeartsTogether! I love your other links to re purpose an old garden hose! So crafty
~Samantha at TwoHeartsTogether
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You have made a good case for your point of view. However I must disagree. Toss it! Hose Reels