How to choose the right Watering Can for your garden

This article intends to give useful tips to choose the right watering can, both for indoors and outdoors.
The main variables to consider when buying a watering can are size, capacity and style.
The rest of the features to bear in mind are style, product quality if we want it to last long and optional removable sprayhead.

Plastic or metal watering can?

When choosing a metal watering can you will obtain a more durability, metal watering cans resist much better than the rest, they are heavier and more expensive.
In case you need a plastic watering can its main advantages are: they are lighter and cheaper, but their life span ranges bewteen 5 and 10 years. You must never expose a plastic watering can to direct sunlight.

Capacity and Size

Take into consideration how much water you can carry, buy more than one if you don't want to come and go many times.
Long spouted or Short Spouted Watering Can?, if you want to reach hidden areas in your garden, avoiding damaging the leaves or yourself, then the long sprouted watering can fits right. Short sprouted are designed for general gardening jobs, very suitable for spraying pots or watering already grown plants.

Besides, if you are planning to use a fertiliser or weed killer, then it's strongly recommended to buy a cheap plastic watering can for that use only, to avoid the risk of contamination.

How to spray correctly with a watering can

The sprayhead should be looking upwards, while you handle correctly the angle of the can, otherwise the water will start running the brass. In case there is a larger area the sprayhead should be pointing the ground. It's advisable to buy watering cans which sprayheads can be replaced, being these element the one that suffers the most the intensive use.
Always check the spout with a needle or a cane to verify if it's blocked.

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