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Each winter, we wrapped our water hoses with the Rio Grande Valley. We never did have a freezing problem! :)

Seriously, the last winter we were in the process of selling, and stayed in North Texas until it got cold enough I needed to do something. I did go to buy some of the standard pipe split insulation sticks. After much looking I bit my tongue, and bought the rubber sticks, rather than the poly sticks, for the water hose. I don't remember now whether I bought 3/4 inch or 1 inch.

While much more expensive, I never regretted it. It did get somewhere below freezing, and I had no problem. And the rubber seems so much easier to apply, and it really does stick together well.

If I were doing it again, that is what I would do. But, it would make some difference on what low temps are expected. Disconnection is the only perfect non-freezing hose solution, in really low freezing temps.