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This year has seen some great new products launched from the likes of Hozelock, Rain Bird and Claber. Claber recently launched the Hydro 4 Solenoid Valve Box, something we wrote about here, and Hozelock updated their range of automatic watering kits. Hozelock isn't the only manufacturer to have released something new in the drip irrigation space. Claber has now released two new kits to extend their range of drip irrigation systems. Each kit has been designed for specific areas in the garden, rather than being a general, all-purpose kit. They both retail for roughly the same price and have a huge parts list making them good value for money. They promise to be comprehensive starter kits that can feed up to 60 plants, but will they live up to our high expectations? Let's find out.

Over the past few years Hozelock have been releasing lots of updates to its existing product range and adding new innovations for watering the garden. These include Hozelock's Flexi Spray Pistol, winner of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show's product of the year, the Hozelock AquaDeco Watering Globe and Hozelock's Growbag Waterer, along with a many others.

One of the product ranges that has been lacking an update is the Hozelock automatic watering kits (AKA the drip irrigation kits). The range consisted of the Hozelock Automatic Watering Kit Deluxe, its top of the range automatic watering kit that included a water timer, the Hozelock Maxi Watering Kit and the Hozelock Mini Watering Kit. These have been the same for as long as I've been working in the industry (7 years) with no update other than a refresh in the packaging design to match their re-branding back in 2012.

We get busy on the phones this time of year helping customers plan their garden irrigation systems, providing technical support during installation and offering advice on programming their water timers to best effect. One question we get asked a lot is "Where are you based?". This is usually because they'd like to pop in and see us face to face for help. Unfortunately for most people asking, we are off the beaten track and tucked away in beautiful Pembrokeshire, about 200 miles away from London (4 hrs drive). Fortunately for us, however, we get to live in one of the most stunning areas the UK has to offer. 

In this blog post you'll see our Pembrokeshire Pinterest Board (overtime this will be added to, so watch this space), and some photo's we've recently taken (or found) locally.

[Update: 18.03.2015] The New Claber Hydro 4 Solenoid Valve Box is now in stock.

Today we met up with Claber sales rep Ian to discuss their latest products and for a general catch up over a tasty bacon sandwich and a cup of coffee in the cafe just around the corner from our warehouse. Sat down in the marina cafe, we had our usual chit chat, "How's business?", "Are you planning any holidays this year?" etc. etc. Soon enough we got to the nitty gritty of our meeting to discuss the much anticipated Claber Hydro 4.

We've been working tirelessly throughout the winter rebuilding our website from the ground up to provide you with the best shopping experience possible. We've managed to get it finished in time for the Spring season (phew - what a relief). We are now happy to unveil the newest design for the Easy Garden Irrigation website. We've given it a complete makeover (with a new logo too), and have made massive changes to the site architecture based on customer feedback. All improvements have been made to help you, our much-loved customers, to find it easier to get the help you need, and to find exactly what you are looking for. We've changed the navigation system, implemented a mobile friendly responsive design, and a faster checkout process. 

We're really pleased to announce that we are a finalist for the Radio Pembrokeshire Business Awards. We've been shortlisted in the Best E-Commerce business category. We need your help though to become a winner. All we need you to do is...

We hope that you lovely lot have been enjoying the sun as much as we have. It's so nice to have a burst of good weather.

As you'd imagine, we've been working hard here at Easy Garden Irrigation to get orders out the door as quickly as possible, and to further improve our offering and bring you the best value for money. Well we have just completed putting together our latest set of kits - The Micro Jet Irrigation Systems and we wanted to let you know all about it. Head on over to the Micro Jet and Spray Systems page to have a look for yourself.

Here at Easy Garden Irrigation, we pride ourselves for making our business as eco-friendly as possible. We're not perfect, but there are steps that every business can take to ensure they minimise the impact they have on the environment, and we'd love to share with other businesses steps they can follow to reduce wastage (which can also reduce costs - now that's good business sense), and to become an eco-friendly business.

We've been busy working on bringing homeowners and landscape gardeners the very best guides to help them plan and install garden watering systems for themselves. Recently we added a guide to planning and installing micro jet and spray irrigation systems, which has had great feedback, along with our guide on planning and installing drip irrigation systems we published a couple months ago. Pretty soon we will have a couple more very important guides that we will be publishing, including a guide for planning and installing pop up sprinkler systems, and a guide for troubleshooting irrigation systems.