Re: using "grey" water in the garden
- To: , "Medit-Plants"
- Subject: Re: using "grey" water in the garden
- From: W* G*
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 21:32:47 -0500
On 2/26/01 7:53 PM Shelley Harvey (sharvey@metz.une.edu.au) wrote:
>I don't know whether this is appropriate for the medit-plant list, but I
>would really appreciate comments/advice from people who use or have used
>household "grey" water (unfiltered) in the garden. This water would only
>be used on the general garden, definitely not on the vegetable garden.
All the grey water in my house - from kitchen sink, bathroom basins,
showers and tubs, and the washing machine and laundry tub - goes
unfiltered through a single PVC pipe into the banana patch where it
enters a perforated PVC pipe and waters bananas, papayas, and one
breadfruit tree.
Nevis being a very small island soap and washing powder are plain soap.
Not the least ill effect noted with respect to the plants or the
consumers during the past six years. The breadfruit and other fruits do
not have the least taste of soap, and the breadfruit tree, planted when
it was one foot high, started bearing in half the usual time.
Your flowers should do fine.
William Glover
Nevis, West Indies
