LR Nelson Simple Soaker Border Area Sprinkling System #2311

Discount Price: $34.99

Features:

• From LR Nelson, ground sprinkler system for border areas, flower beds, and other landscape
• System consists of 50-foot poly tubing for up to 600 square feet of coverage; 5 plastic stakes secure tubing
• Water flow is directed by 5 adjustable nozzles and 5 nozzle deflectors
• System also includes 5 6-inch risers, end plug, and 8 goof plugs; 15 minute estimated installation
• Sprinkler system weighs 3.8 pounds upon shipping

Customer Reviews:

Simple Soaker Really is Simple [Posted on 2007-07-23]
I bought and helped install this item at my parents place after my mom tripped over a rock and fell down a terraced garden wall. The Simple Soaker is really simple to install and, as the description/package states, it will only take about 15-minutes if you don't mind the hose showing. We covered up the hose with newly laid bark and, after about an hour it was set up. Another half-hour adding a riser to a couple of spots and making some minor re-adjustments, the system was up and running.

The main benefit of this system, in addition to the ease of setup, comes from the convenient way to water areas which are difficult to reach with a sprinkler. A surprising set of additional perks stems from the following:

1. Requires less water (per the authority, ma, water use dropped enough to save her about $8-12/month).

2. The spray rapidly saturates the surrounding area in half the time it takes a regular sprinkler head.

3. Less damage to leaves and stems from high-pressure streams or oscillating downpours.

I've purchased another couple of these for shade garden and around part of our pond so the frogs don't bake their feet when they climb onto black rocks that have been in the late summer sun.

A must have for border beds! [Posted on 2007-07-25]
The Simple Soaker is excellent for watering border beds. I have a long flower bed along my back fence and use 2 Simple Soakers to water this area. Just place the stakes in the ground, cover the hose with mulch and you are set for a season of watering! The water presure at my house is not great enough to use the two connected, although they are designed to hook together. Still connecting the garden hose to two spots is better than standing out there for hours holding it! You can get them with or without a timer. I would recommend you get your first one with the timer (you can use the same timer for multiple ones at the same faucet). It is convenient to set it and forget it, because it shuts off on it's own! They also cover much better that traditional soaker hoses.

Amazing solution for low budget sprinkling [Posted on 2007-08-05]
I bought two "LR Nelson Simple Soaker Border Area Sprinkling System" from Amazon. I already had two other kits installed. Since the areas I planned to install them were far away from each other, I purchased the " Raindrip 1/2-Inch-by-100-Foot Poly Hose" from Amazon. With a few interconnecting parts from Home Depot, the job was done. It took me three hours in total to lay them out, connect and finalize the work.
Now, I'm the happy owner of a irrigation/sprinkling system for under $200.
My wife is really happy, the vegetation too. No more 1-hour standing each evening, spreading water over our vegetable garden/shrubs/flower spots.
This is definitely one of the best small projects of this year.

Good purchase [Posted on 2008-02-09]
Very happy with this product. I also have several more complicated micro sprinkler set ups. I like this because it all comes together in one package. It's meant for one area only. You can't buy multiple sets and attach them. The water pressure works for what they have designed.

Works as Promised [Posted on 2008-07-21]
I bought four, based on all the favorable reviews. They're in two terraced beds, each about forty feet long, and one longer bed, about a hundred feet long. My observations:

1) You may or may not be able to string two or more together, depending on your water pressure. The more sprinker heads you have going at once, the less water you'll have coming out at the farthest end. I've had mine running off splitters so I don't have more than one going at a time, but this past weekend, I got good results running two at a time, so I think I may be able to string them in two sets of two - one set for the two levels of the terraced area and one set for the longer area in the garden.

2) The diverters work well in turning the 360 degree spray into a 180 degree spray, but you have to make sure you seat them COMPLETELY in place on the sprinkler head (you'll feel a distinct "snap" when it clicks into place), else the spray will be erratic.

3) I found the head at the end of one run wasn't putting out much water, even when I turned the other heads down to almost nothing. I disassembled the head (no tools necessary) and found a little piece of cardboard had somehow gotten trapped inside and was blocking the flow. Once I cleaned it out, everything worked fine.

4) The "goof plugs" simply don't work, at least not if you have good water pressure. The water just pushed the plug out of the hose (without ejecting it completely), letting so much water out of my two "goofs" that the flow to the heads downstream was significantly reduced. I let the system dry a couple of days, then tried repairing it with contact cement. No luck - the water blew the plugs out again. So I finally repaired them with a great big gob of epoxy around each goof plug, being careful not to let it get into the holes, and that took care of it.

Installation is as easy as advertised - it took me about 1-1/2 hours to do four of them - but be careful where you install the heads unless you like epoxying goof plug holes. Once I got everything set up properly, it's worked very nicely - puts out a fine spray that hits every plant in my garden, while not throwing water all over the place where I don't need it.

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