Last year I became a veg-grower in earnest with my new Gardeners Supply “self-watering” containers, but they still needed huge quantities of water and the lugging of water from the kitchen 
sink became a prime gardening task. (Still, totally worth it because those vegetables were so much fun to grow, and the produce was pretty awesome even to a nonfoodie like myself.) I asked for ideas and was even sent a very curious “water vest”, which I’ll be testing for readers as soon as they send me the attachments.
But it won’t be the pots on the deck that get watered with the water vest because Eureka – I’ve found a much better solution and it’s so obvious I can almost hear a collective “Duh!” as I’m typing this. It’s a 50-foot old garden hose and adjustable nozzle that arrive on the deck from the spigot below via a handy hole drilled through the wood. It can even be left ON all the time with no leakage – good lord, how easy is that?
Read about what I learned as a newbie container veg-gardener here on GardenRant.
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Ha! That is so funny. I stopped to check out your post because I couldn’t wait to try the water vest watering system
I also have run my hose up to my deck. I still have the issue of having to turn my hose on and off as I must not have a good seal at the faucet because my hose leaks. Since I know yours works maybe I’ll anti up and get a new hose.
Thanks for the laugh.
I actually have rain barrels on the deck where I have many pots also. My ‘rain barrels’ are just 50 gal. plastic trash cans that I take the lid off when it rains and put them back on the rest of the time. I have a watering can with spout that I just dip down into the bucket to fill and then use it to water the plants. Our deck goes across the whole front of the house (48′) and I have one barrel on both side of the house to make it so I don’t have to carry it too far. For watering plants in the garden below, I can also just get the suction going from those barrels on the porch, and water them with the collected water or run the collected water into the garden to hold. It’s great using rainwater!
Btw, it’s also totally worth the extra few bucks to get the kind of hose that won’t crimp. Gotta have it.