Do you have a washer at the hose connection? If not, add one. Or is it old? If so, replace it.

Or, are there soaker hoses out there that don't leak at the hose connection?

Sure. Never had one leak assuming the connections were in good shape, washer in place, and the hose not kinked anywhere.

There are advantages to drip irrigation but they are also more expensive to set up and less flexible to use. Trying to remove your soaker hose now would likely do some plant damage.

Dave

PS: you can also try reducing the pressure at the faucet. Most soaker hose call for a pressure reduction valve at the faucet if your home water pressure is set abnormally high.

I bought a basic soaker hose and the thing I didn't like about it was that more water came out of the farther section of the hose. In other words, it doesn't soak evenly.

I would go with drip, but it depends on the size of your garden.

Jay

The garden is 3 ft by 6 ft.

edweather you need to make sure the pressure increaser in the ooze hose is still there.

What's a pressure increaser? The hose just looks like a spongy hose with a sealed end, if I remember correctly.

digdirt, you were right, it was the washer thing. I remember now that I removed the blue plastic thingie that has such a small hole in the middle, thinking "Surely, the water will never get through that tiny hole". Today I canabalized a rubber washer from another soaker hose and now the connection doesn't leak at all. Thanks!

edweather "lois remember now that I removed the blue plastic thingie that has such a small hole in the middle, thinking "Surely, the water will never get through that tiny hole".

the washer with small hole that lois discarded is the pressure increaser.

I do a lot of cutting to size of ooze hoses in my garden so I need to make lot of these pressure increasers myself, when i put on new hose ends.

Sprky- I live in North Central Kansas and I have been using drip for two years. Buy a big roll of drip tape and you will save alot of money. I by 6,500-7,000 foot rolls. I am on roll two. It costs me about $0.02 a foot. My biggest area on drip is a half acre winter squash patch. I have 8, 200 foot rows and everything to put in the drip was about $75. also, I can reuse all the connectors and header line.

With a 3 foot by 6 foot garden, a weeping soaker hose makes sense, drip doesn't. One hose and you will water it all.

Jay

OK. Yes I use the pressure increaser, but I must have a poor quality hose because it still seems like there is more pressure at the far end of the hose.

Gotta get in my 2 cents...pressure "increaser"?? I think you mean decreaser. I have never had a hose that did not leak more in one spot than another, flooding one place and starving others. I have a couple of those cheap plastic lawn sprinklers set 3 foot apart (I cut and spliced the hose) on my beds, set the pressure very low so that they only squirt about a foot high. Just barely crack the valve to them.

colokid you problem may be that the inside of ooze hose has a lot clogged holes.

it is pressure increaser. you really should learn basic physic when you decrease the size of a pipe you increase the pressure

It was said: "In other words, it doesn't soak evenly."

Uneven output is due to excess water pressure at the spigot, even if a pressure reducer is in place. Turn the water down.

homwend
Quote "colokid you problem may be that the inside of ooze hose has a lot clogged holes.

it is pressure increaser. you really should learn basic physic when you decrease the size of a pipe you increase the pressure "
Brand new hose---this time
My collage degree in physics says that when you restrict the flow into a hose, you reduce the pressure in that hose. With that small hole restricting the flow the pressure in the soaker hose is reduced. no debate what ever here. You mix up velocity and pressure.

colokid a basic test proves you wrong. if small hole washer decrease pressure it would put out less water from soaker hose, then when you use a large hole standard washer. And water cutter would work better if hole was bigger. both are not true. I suggest you give back your degree.

Homwend, you are so far out its funny. I have no idea where you are coming from. Go into any garden store and look for a pressure increaser--no such thing, but plenty of pressure reducers. I am done wasting time on this misuse of words.