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Grow Hose   (+5, -2)  [vote for, against]
Hose that grows after planting

Grow Hose is a biodegrading hose that you buy on a reel according to what length of garden you have.

Inside the hose are a variety of flower seeds and starter nutrients spaced out along its length. You can choose from several different mixtures of colour and shrubbery.

All you need do is dig a long trench that goes in whatever direction takes your fancy, uncoil your Grow Hose, drop in it, cover with soil and give it a sprinkle of water, add a little sun shine, then up sprouts your linear garden.
-- xenzag, Jan 30 2007

How to make seed balls http://www.pathtofr...ing/seedballs.shtml
[nomocrow, Jan 30 2007]

Seed Tape http://www.parkseed...1&mainPage=seedtape
Been around the better part of forever. [Galbinus_Caeli, Jan 30 2007]

I love it.

There is a machine out there called a ditch witch that slices lawns while dragging plastic water lines underground behind the blade. It would make short work of running out your grow hose.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jan 30 2007


Brilliant, you could offer various hose types for say a vegetable garden:

1. Pee hose 2. carrot hose 3. bean hose 4. etc
-- proee, Jan 30 2007


Vegetable trousers? Oh! *that* kind of hose!
-- zen_tom, Jan 30 2007


"We've got armadillos in our trousers"
-- hippo, Jan 30 2007


Why hose? Why not rope? (Grope?)
-- jutta, Jan 30 2007


//Why hose? Why not rope? // - well if you can show me how to easily split open a rope the way you can a hose, stuff it with seeds spaced at various intervals, then fill the gaps with nutrients... besides isn't a grope already known to exist - heavy duty version of gstring ?
-- xenzag, Jan 30 2007


Long ago they were selling mats that were preseeded. Just cut it to shape and lay it on the soil and water. I don't know if they are still on the market.
-- JSand, Jan 30 2007


It would be neat if you could somehow impregnate the outside of a semiporous hose with seeds. Then you could leave one end poking out of the ground with an attacment for a standard garden hose, and you caould water everything by just turning on the water.

Or you could have seed balls on a line - if you used a standard creeper, it would be biodegradable.
-- nomocrow, Jan 30 2007


Grope/gstring (ha. Chia Bikini?) - I was thinking that you'd lay out fibers, sprinkle them with seeds, then twist them together. But now that you've explained the hose process, it makes sense, too.

[admin: I'm holding off on GC's marked-for-deletion call because it took a while for someone to point out the existing product (few people knew about it), and because it is still being sold as a novelty item (the makers think it's not widely known, either) - maybe it's better known in certain geographical areas?]
-- jutta, Jan 30 2007


Where my hose at?
-- Texticle, Jan 30 2007


Sorry, seed tape has been around forever [marked-for-deletion] widely known.
-- Galbinus_Caeli, Jan 30 2007


"why don't you grow a hose"? I thought this might be a suggestion for one accused of unmanly behavior.
-- bungston, Jan 30 2007



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