Durable Expandable Garden Hose for Watering and Garden Tools

Unlike traditional hoses, expandable hoses - unsurprisingly - expand. Traditional hoses use a soft inner tube surrounded by hard, durable rubber that can stand up to weathering and being dragged across the ground.

Expandable hoses use that same inner tube, but cover it with weatherproof fabric. This means that the inner tube expands and contracts depending on water pressure. This means that an expandable hose can shrink three times smaller than its full length. The idea is that this can save you a little space.

Expandable hoses are perfect for city gardens and small plots. It can't be overstated how much room an expandable hose can save. It takes up less than half the space of a hose reel, so it's great if you have a little herb garden but don't need yards and yards of hose. They're great if you're really hot on garden design because they're easy to pack up and hide out of sight.

Expandable hoses also save you from my least favorite garden chore - winding up a hose. Growing up, I used to love gardening with my parents, but they had a long, thin garden, so most summer days I'd have the monotonous task of winding 100 feet of hose up onto a reel. This isn't a problem with an expandable hose, because it expands and contracts by itself.

Because they're so pressurized, unlike a traditional hose, expandable hoses never kink. With an expandable hose, you never have the annoying moment when your water stutters to a stop.