Best hose for gardening?

[Bugbear]

Ok, I went to Lowes, but not Home Depot. I found a black belt with leather on the ends, and woven polyester for the middle part. I think this will end up as my casual belt. It came with a thic padding for back support and so on. I think that part of the belt will be fine for a gardening belt. It has velcro and can be taken off the belt and made into a belt on it's own. A little hard to explain that well. Anyway, the leather/polyester belt is a bit long because it had to go around the padding. I haven't decided what to do if anything about that. That was twenty dollars.

I then found a large tool pouch on sale for about fifteen dollars. It is ment to go on a 2" wide work belt, and it is made of black canvas. This will be very good to take the place of a sporran for garden work. I wouldn't wear it for casual dress of course. It looks just like a standard tool pouch, but it is canvas and not leather... It does have the metal loops on the front for hanging things like hammers and so on.

I have a review of the walmart knee highs I bought last week because I wore them into town today. I am going to keep these as my gardening socks because I noticed they are slightly shorter than the JC Penny knee highs with the red stripe at the top edge. They would be fine as scrunchy socks, but I would rather have the slightly higher socks for casual wear, and this will allow me to keep those in better shape. Still, the Walmart knee highs are exactly what I needed for working in the garden.

* I need to clarify, I am talking about the bottom end of casual in relation to the knee high socks. I have already decided to not wear them with tartan kilts, and to reserve them for the Bk canvas and that type of kilt.

[Bugbear]

I can give a review of the belt pad and tool pouch now after using them a little. I copied this review from a post in my gardening thread.

The situation was that I bought a black 2" wide belt at lowes a couple of days back. The belt was to go with my kilts for casual dress, but it came with a nylon and Velcro covered foam padding that attached to the belt. While looking at that, right next to it was a black, canvas tool pouch on sale for fifteen dollars. I had been needing one of those, and all the other tool pouches were very expensive leather styles. I got both the belt and the pouch. I noticed that the Velcro padding thing for the belt had two straps with belt loops that slid over the belt, and these straps had the other side of the Velcro from the padding... The straps are completely removable from the padding and the belts. I saw that I could then take the long Velcro covered padding piece and attach the Velcro strap to each end, and make a complete belt from just the padding! It just so happens that the canvas tool pouch has Velcro on the back side of the sleeve that the work belt is meant to slide through. I can stick the tool pouch on the Velcro of the padding belt. I don't know that the Velcro will be able to hold up a power drill or some kind of heavy load, but it seems to do pretty well. The padding is wider than the belt, I'm guessing three inches wide. Wide belts make a big difference because a skinnier belt tends to cut in to my waist. The canvas apron pouch that I usually use. has strips of canvas made into strings like most aprons and that can cause discomfort problems too. This padding belt is very comfortable, and the tool pouch, with the Velcro, can be easily moved to the front, side or back of the belt to get it out of the way.

As far as I can tell this was a really good buy all around. If I weren't intending the leather part of the belt to be used with my kilts, it would probably be good with that padding. I kind of like having the Velcro closure just to be able to get the whole thing off quickly though.

[Bugbear]

This week it has been warm out here in the desert. I wore sandals with my kilt when I went out to check plants. I think at some point, wearing those thick acrylic knee high socks will be a bit much for gardening. I think the sandals work alright though. I like the ones that strap around the ankle.

Here is a link to a thread on how to wash kilt hose.
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/b...x.html?t=35478