The Miracle-Gro Soaker System Kit is your best option for a mini-drip watering solution for your garden plants. It offers a cost-effective, customizable, efficient, and easy-to-use system for deep watering.

Each watering system comes with a 50, 75, or 100 feet heavy-duty soaker hose. It’s also a good choice for your garden no matter the landscape you intend to use it for. This guide offers you details on how to set up and use the mini-drip watering system.

Soaker Hoses

Just in case you do not know what a soaker is, it is a rubber hose that contains plenty of pores throughout the entire length. These pores allow for water to slowly seep from the hose when watering your garden.

Soaker hoses come in different lengths that range from 25 to 100 feet, with a diameter ranging from 1/4 to 5/8 inches.

Soaker hoses are ideal for the slow watering of plants if you need to get the plant’s root zone thoroughly soaked with water.

The hoses produce the best results when they are subjected to enough water pressure through the entire length of the soaker hose. However, you need to put some restraints on the pressure to prevent the connectors and end caps from blowing off.

The water from the hose is meant to be “weeping” but if it is spraying, it means you’re applying too much pressure.

The shorter the soaker hose, the better it is for drip watering. Even for a 100-foot soaker hose, it’s pretty hard to get water seeping from the full length of the hose. You will discover that it emits too much water along with the hose very close to the spigot while very little water makes it to the far end of the hose.

Soaker hoses are very effective when used for relatively flat grounds, but not for sloped yards. If your garden is on a sloped ground, it’s better to source a different type of hose.

Overview of the Miracle-Gro Soaker System Kit

If you want a budget-friendly garden kit for your plant, then the Miracle-Gro Soaker System Kit is ideal for you. It enables the efficient use of water through customizing the soaker hose layout in order to fit your specific needs.

Longer hoses lead to much wasting of water but Miracle-Gro Soaker System helps you prevent that with custom hoses.

You can set up a T-connected system using some parts in the soaker kit. These parts have been cut out using different dimensions, so all you need to do is fit them together when you need to use them.

What’s Inside?

The system kit comes in 3 different variants with each having its own soaker hose length – 50, 75, and 100 feet. Also, each of the soaker hose variants comes with a unique number and types of connectors.

For the 100 feet soaker hose system kit, here the parts that you’re likely to find inside.

  • A single 100 feet soaker hose with a diameter of 3/8 inches
  • 4 female connectors that can be used to connect to a faucet or another hose. These female soaker hose connectors are similar to what you’ll find with regular hoses
  • Also, you’ll find 2 T-shaped feeders whose long end connects nicely with a normal garden hose. But the 2 ends on the top of the T allow for connecting to the soaker hose
  • The kit also contains 6 T-connectors the allow you to easily connect pieces of soaker hose into rows and/or other custom layouts
  • 4 male connectors plus their caps for closing off the hose at the end
  • 4 plugs that you can use to close off the water at the ends of a line.

Setting Up

This step-by-step guide should help you set up your Miracle-Gro Soaker System without much trouble.

Step One – Lay the soaker hose out bare in the sun for a minimum of one hour to get it warmed up and straightened out. If possible you can stretch the soaker hose to full length to better prepare it for use.

Step Two – Unpack the hoses and connectors and try to familiarize yourself with the different parts of the kit.

Step Three – Take a good look at your layout options in order to decide on the best design to use for your soaker system.

Step Four – Cut the hose to your desired length using a pair of scissors or garden pruners. You have to make a clean 90 degree cut to prevent water from leaking when using the hose. A clean-cut also makes it easier to attach any parts that you want to the soaker hose.

Step Five – To attach a connector to the hose, just slip the end of the soaker hose into the connector and twist.

Step Six – In order to make rows of the hose, you’ll have to cut your mainline to the desired width and then insert plugs at both ends. Next, you cut the line at the particular spots that you choose for the rows.

Finally, add a feeder T to your mainline, so water can be brought to the soaker hose.

Each Miracle-Gro Soaker System box comes with great diagrams and a helpful part list to guide you in setting up.

After putting the hoses in place, it’s best to cover your soaker system with mulch to protect it from direct sunlight.

Pricing

The Miracle-Gro Soaker System Kit can be for $46.95 on Amazon or you could make your purchase directly from the Swan website.

You can also purchase replacement parts for your soaker system from Swan Company, with a 50 feet soaker hose and main connection and cap selling for $15+.

Conclusion

The Miracle-Gro Soaker System Kit offers an inexpensive method for you to water your garden and plantings. The kit comes in 3 different variants for 50, 75, or 100 feet soaker hose to fit your unique garden needs.

The box contains 20 different parts but you’ll find out that the system is quite easy to set up and start using. Plus you’ve got an option to customize your layout in order to fit into your garden needs.

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