A hose-fed lateral move irrigation system (10) and method that utilizes a pipe with a plurality of sprinklers attached to a wheeled cart (12) that drags a flexible hose assembly therebehind while traveling laterally with the pipe and sprinklers relative to a field so that alternating the flexible hose assembly from one side of the cart to another as the cart traverses back and forth along a cart path is facilitated while kinking in the flexible hose assembly is avoided.
