Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I've owned this hose for a little over a month now and I can honestly say it's a serious piece of junk. I have no idea how this thing got 4 stars. Here's my experience. Week 1 and 2: The host never kinks, it doesn't leak, and it just works like a hose should. This IS a rubber hose after all. It takes water in one end and shoots it out the other. This is not a difficult thing to accomplish. Week 3: Ummm why is my hose lumpy? It appears that the hose caught some sort of disease and it no longer looks like any hose I've ever seen. The entire 50ft length has bulges all over it but it still works fine. Week 5: The lumps have gotten bigger and the hose is starting to kink. The end where it connects to the faucet is leaking like crazy. Week 7: I can't undo the kinks anymore without a massive amount of effort. The moment it starts working it kinks again. The lumps are out of control. My hose looks like it has grown an arm out of the side of it. It's squirting water from the faucet connection 10 feet in the air. Time to get a new hose. If this is the last hose I ever buy than my plants are going to be dead in a month because I'm never going to use it again. Update 9/9/2013 I threw the hose out a couple months ago. It leaked after about 2 months but I used it infrequently so it wasn't a big deal. One day I disconnected it from the faucet and attached it to another. When I turned the water on the pressure blew the hose apart from the metal connection completely so I had to throw the thing away. Now I'm using two 50ft Apex 7612-50 NeverKink Boat Hoses and both are working fine. They only shoot water out of one end and haven't grown into lumpy sausages so I'm happy.