Re: using "grey" water in the garden
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- Subject: Re: using "grey" water in the garden
- From: C*
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:20:47 -0800
on 2/26/01 10:05 PM, Liz Witthuhn at witthuhn@sprintmail.com wrote:
Well, I am only echoing everyone else here, but Nick and I have always used
our bath water and sink water from the dishes on the garden, no filtering,
and no problems other than a little self-congratulatoriness on our parts.
The thing that makes us crazy is that here in Los Angeles the city charges a
sewer fee with the assumption that all the water that you use goes down the
drain------most of ours goes on our garden so it doesn't seem fair!
oh well.
Laura
Los Angeles, Mt. Washington area
> My family has used very little else in the front yard since about 1990.
> All washwater is sent out unfiltered, no special soaps are used. The
> orange trees get nothing else. Hasn't hurt any of the plantings a bit.
>
> Liz
> Santa Barbara, CA
>
> Shelley Harvey 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.õ
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