![]() Hold the end of the hose, not the water wand, when dragging the weight of the hose around the garden. Wands and Sprinklers.Click Any Image to See a Larger Version Gardena Snap Connectors Allow Quick Connection of Gardena Water I recommend Gardena water wands to all my clients, and every client who's bought one is glad she did. I brought my Gardena Soft Spray Wand over the next day for him to try out, and he immediately ordered 2 more of them for the nursery. I told him it was too strong, he said "Tell me about it," and pulled out 4 other watering wands he'd bought, and said that was the best of the lot. ![]() When I asked how they watered the delicate seedlings in the nursery, the owner showed me a water wand that doubled seedlings over with its spray. In 2011, I consulted for an aquaponics farm that seeded 15,000 lettuce seedlings a week. Hard Water Spray from Another Wand on Left, Soft, Rain-Like Spray ![]() Pounding the soil surface with too strong a stream of water also damages soil structure and splashes soil-and disease-causing bacteria and fungal spores-onto the undersides of your vegetable leaves. Hard watering can injure delicate seedlings, and injured stems and leaves-especially when it’s wet-are an entry point for plant diseases. Yet it still delivers plenty of water to thirsty plants.Įvery other watering wand I’ve tried-and I’ve tried many-had too hard a spray, and blasted the plants and soil, even when it’s set on “shower”. It has a fine-mesh screen, so the water fans out into a gentle spray like rain, delicate enough for tiny seedlings in nurseries and seedbeds. There's no better way to water freshly seeded beds, or seedlings in the nursery. Month in and month out, I use my Gardena wand more than any other gardening tool in our California gardens. Growing Tomatoes in Cool-Summer Gardens.
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