Re: using "grey" water in the garden

William Glover wrote:
> 
> 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.

The nearest thing to this I have come across was at a pub on the way to
Mombasa from Nairobi (we are talking of East Africa) nearly 50 years
ago. Every cottage had its own bath outlet and at the end of each drain
was a Pawpaw (papaya). 

When we had our breakfast next morning there was lots of delicious
pawpaw on the menue which was doubtless "home-grown" and not a whit
bothered by the soapy water which fed the plants. We were happy to think
we had made our own small contribution when we bathed the previous night
<G>

Moira

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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata (near Wellington, capital city of New Zealand)
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