Dramm Rain Wand

After trying about five different watering wands to replace a Gilmour extending wand that I'd liked a whole lot, I ended up with a Dramm Rain Wand like this one, but about 24" long and anodized blue. Dramm also offers basically the same thing with a squeeze valve called "Touch-N-Flow", but it is garbage for two simple reasons. First, the touch-n-flow model has practically no actual flow (it should be called "touch-n-drip") compared to this wand, which has a nice ball valve at the bottom with a big enough handle to operate with gloved hands. Second, the touch-n-flow's "stay on" function is a tiny metal clip which we lost within a week.

The great thing about this wand is the flow. We have around 10 GPM to the garden, and this wand will put nearly all of it out without any hard jets. Like most watering wands the head attaches to the wand with a hose-bib thread; this one has big holes and is very easy to clean, which is important in a water system like ours where you have the occasional big chunk of rust coming out. We don't use a mesh washer with this wand for just this reason. Also, because it flows so easily, there is little to no noise or vibration coming from water flow restriction, which was a serious annoyance (and even caused hand/arm fatigue!) with several other wands.

Short form: this is the best wand I've seen on the market, period.