Alternative uses for flexible/extendable hose (vacuum cleaner)

[veggiechicken]

This is NOT an Essex snake but the flexible hose from an upright vacuum cleaner (now dead). I am sure it must have an alternative use in the garden, perhaps for water collection or irrigation. Its about 32" long and will stretch to at least double that - but wants to recoil if you let go! I can't bear to send it for recycling if I can use it for something.
Suggestions needed please
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[zazen999]

Pierce holes in the length and bury it next to a row of celeriac, and wedge the end in vertically, and use it to water them. Pour your water in the top and it should flow right where you want it to go.

[veggiechicken]

Thanks Zaz, that's the sort of thing I was trying to think of! Presumably either seal off one end, or raise both ends upright, so that the water doesn't flood out?

[zazen999]

Yup.......

[Snadger]

Make an extension for the new vaccumn cleaner..................

[veggiechicken]

Thanks Snadger!. If I attached all the hoses together I could clean the whole house without unplugging the vacuum - what a brilliant idea

[Glutton4...]

I can do that VC - I place the Vac in the hall, and I can do most of the buggalow without it going over any threshhold!

I like Zaz's idea, though. I hate chucking anything out that may have another use. I reckon I must be a Womble!

[veggiechicken]

I can't throw anything away either G4, as you may have guessed
I've already taken the tools and the tubes, may take the fuse from the plug and probably the transparent dust container - just because it looks as if it should have a use! By the time it goes to recycling it will be a skeleton Serve it right for burning out on me!!

[Glutton4...]

We always cut the plug, complete with all the cord, off any old electrical items before disposal. They often come in handy for replacing cords on other items, if they've been damaged, or are too short!

[veggiechicken]

I'm not very confident in the electrical wiring department BUT it does have a very long power lead and maybe I know someone who could use it..........

[Glutton4...]

... or buy a socket, attach it to t'other end, and turn it into an extension lead ...

[veggiechicken]

Now I just happen to have a box full of sockets, plugs, extension leads, light fittings and reel upon reel of electrical cable of all shapes and sizes. I wonder who I inherited those from?

[Dusty Rhodes]

Maybe cut the hose into sections and tack them up in your shed to hold short handled gardening tools such as trowels.

[lottie dolly]

Now I just happen to have a box full of sockets, plugs, extension leads, light fittings and reel upon reel of electrical cable of all shapes and sizes. I wonder who I inherited those from?

make up extension leads and e bay lol
will your vacume hoses fit together to make a long one to get water from a butt to where you need it,even filling a few cans further down you sloapes,

[snohare]

Funny you should ask, Veggie. I don't often get to go to the tip anymore, but in my work with a recycling charity these things spring eternal, together with only-slightly-broken one-pedalled bicycles. Also to be seen are the smaller diameter hoses that attach to the backs of washing machines, for removal of waste water.
I have gotten into the habit of saving these - no, not the bicycles! - because I am firmly of the opinion that we are going to be having some stupendously hot, dry summers (perhaps not so much in my neck of the woods, but certainly down South) and I want to make sure I have sufficient waterpipe for deep irrigation. This is because I have seen the predictive models for climate change within the UK, and even despite the fact that they make tentative assumptions now overtaken by events (eg that Arctic polar sea ice will not disappear until 2050) these predict with a high degree of certainty that summers like 2003 will have a frequency of 3 in 5 years. (There may be large regional variations in this pattern, and variability between years may be very large, but overall the South of England is expected to become like the South of France.)
My plan is quite simple, in strategy if not tactics. When we start to have a hot summer, I will have piping in place 20 -30cm or so below the surface; possibly lots of small lengths of vertical piping with a curve at the bottom, or alternatively several horizontal lengths per row with fewer vertical feed pipes. Horizontal pipes will be pierced to allow seepage; I think I will have to plug the ends, although I'm not sure how yet.
These will be used specifically for root crops such as potatoes, and just as if not more importantly, for beans, peas and gross feeders such as cucurbits.
It maybe sounds daft, but I know that having a deep-lying layer of moisture retentive composting materiel has made a big difference to my bean yields, and moisture always seems to be the limiting factor in them once they get going; even with this year's weather, I have found that extra watering peps them up and seems to produce more pods. And when emptying out a potato bed the other day, I was amazed to find that less than a spit's depth down, the soil was as dry as dust - powder dry ! So, given all that...
Yes, I know - it's just a pipe dream !