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Gray water (was Re: Coffee filters in the compost...

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I thought there were potential health hazards from using grey water on
vegetable gardens.  Is that outdated now?

Mary Thorp
Richmond, IN
Zone 6

Tom Scut wrote:

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> I try to rinse the filter into the dirty coffee pot and then dump it all
> into the compost bucket. A gray water system would be ideal, one of the
> helathiest, most productive gardens I ever saw grow was irrigated only on
> well used gray water (during a drought year with a dry well after June).
> Because I am on a small city lot, it's not really feasible here.
> Tom
> Portland OR,  Zone 8
> http://www.teleport.com/~scut/garden.htm
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Teuton <fteuton@total.net>
> To: Tom Scut <scut@teleport.com>; sqft <sqft@listbot.com>
> Date: Monday, June 21, 1999 7:59 AM
> Subject: Re: Coffee filters in the compost...
>
> >I've never been able to quantify the cost of washing the permanent filter
> >and the loss of some of the grounds, but I admit to caving in to
> convenience
> >by using the paper ones, since it is a quick dump in the compostables
> >container and away we go...
> >
> >Ideally one would rinse the permanent filter into a graywater system for
> use
> >in the yard /garden/ compost pile, and I do this with pot likker and first
> >rinse of the permanent yogourt container, but, as I said, have caved in on
> >the paper filters....
> >
> >Frank---doesn't want to get into the whole coffee question, what with the
> >price of fairtraded organic coffee, but he does drink it sometimes....
>
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