Give An Old Or Broken Garden Hose New Life With This Clever Watering Can Hack

If you've filled your shelves with an array of houseplants perfect for growing indoors or have a vast outdoor garden, you might find watering all that greenery to be quite the chore. Plants at the back of your shelf or garden can be particularly hard to reach, especially with a regular watering can. Luckily, you can easily eradicate that issue with a simple DIY using your existing watering can and a piece of old garden hose. By attaching these two items together, you'll have an extended watering can that can reach plants in the back with ease.

This hack serves as an efficient way to repurpose a garden hose around the house. It's also great because it uses materials you already have lying around and saves you from spending money on a new watering can with an extended spout, which can be pricey. So if you're ready to try something new that could make watering your plants a bit easier, this easy project is a good place to start.

Start by cutting a good section of your garden hose off, roughly 10 inches in length should do the trick. Then, if your watering can has a rose on the end, unscrew it and set it aside. You won't need the rose again for this hack, but you might choose to put it back on your watering can in the future. Finally, slide your cut piece of hose inside the open spout of your watering can, making sure it's snug and secure. And now you're done — you've crafted the perfect extended spout for your watering can to get into all the hard-to-reach spots in your garden or houseplant collection.

One thing to look out for with this DIY is how flimsy your hose may be; you may need to use your hand to aim the water more precisely. If you have an especially wide garden with lots of hard-to-reach spots, you might consider using a long piece of pipe instead of a hose. The pipe will stay straighter than a piece of hose and will be easier to aim, especially at a longer length. If you're an avid DIYer and don't already own a watering can, consider cutting a hole into any plastic jug (cat litter or milk jugs will work) you have and adding a piece of reinforced hose as the spout. This method may not be as stable, but it will be virtually free. Regardless of what kind of watering can you piece together, keep in mind the number one rule for watering cans, no matter what kind you have — store them upside down so they can dry out.