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I recently bought this soaker hose kit for a couple of garden beds. In one section of the garden I have two beds with space in between. Is it possible to connect two stretches of soaker hose with a normal garden hose in between as per the image below?

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I know that the diameter of the soaker hose (3/8) is much smaller than that of the normal garden hose (5/8), so I am worried that I would lose the pressure for the soaker hose section in Bed 2 and it wouldn't seep out any water (or considerably less than for Bed 1). Or is that irrelevant?

If it won't work, does anybody know of any other solution to connect the two beds?

jan
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I have something like this and it works just fine. (I have only one soaker hose in each bed, and both soakers are the same size.)

The flow rate involved is very slow, so the hose and connector sizes cause no interference. The pressure will be the same throughout.

A. I. Breveleri
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You haven't specified how long of a run each section is so if you need very fine control of water flow then install a Y-splitter with ball valves at the spigot and run a dedicated hose to each garden bed. This will eliminate the problem of uncontrollable over/under watering.

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https://www.homedepot.com/p/Melnor-4-Way-Hose-Faucet-Connection-9009/202881087

MonkeyZeus
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soaker hoses suffer from pressure drop, and running a long garden hose between two sections is going to make that worse.

You might consider running a 3/8 plastic pipe/non-drip feeder to the left side of bed 1, then run a Y connector, and connect the soaker hose for bed 1 and the garden hose/soaker hose for bed 2. This would eliminate the un-evenness you'll likely get otherwise.

gbronner
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