Re: Water

OMG don't ever use anything with sodium in it.  If you want to guarantee lower weights, add sodium!  Sodium is extremely bad for plants.  Also, don't use water from a pool.  it will be too salty and plant cannot take up the water.  Salt is not table salt.  Salt in water is everything that can dissolve such as carbonates, calcium, mg, etc, etc.

Ben
---- Jordan Rivington <jordan.rivington@gmail.com> wrote: 
> 4 boxes? How big are the boxes?
> 
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:07 PM, john mcafee <johnmcafee_99@yahoo.com>wrote:
> 
> > I think I would put 4 boxes of baking soda in the water to balance out your
> > acids, put in a sump with a garden hose and sprinkler and let it run all
> > day.
> > Be sure to turn it off at 3 pm so the leaves will have a chance to dry.
> > --- On Wed, 8/20/08, DEC <dec@stratuswave.net> wrote:
> >
> > From: dec <dec@stratuswave.net>
> > Subject: Re: Water
> > To: pumpkins@hort.net
> > Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 10:05 AM
> >
> > Scott,
> > Pump the water a little at a time in barrels, let them sit a couple of days
> > as the chlorine will evaporate. Then pump the water on your patch. As for
> > using it all at once I wouldn't. I mostly use chlorinated municipal water I
> >
> > put in barrels and let sit a day or two so the chlorine will evaporate and
> > it works well. I also use rain water where I place these 60 gal. barrels
> > under downspouts. If that sits for awhile I put an ounce of bleach in that
> > water to keep disease growth out of the water. Let them sit a couple days
> > and then put on the patch.  Don
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Scott G. Manke" <manke@in-form.com>
> > To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:38 AM
> > Subject: Water
> >
> >
> > >I have roughly 1,200 gallons of water in a pool that needs to be
> > > drained.  Question for the group is, with the chlorine and other
> > > balancing agents that have been used in this water, is it a good
> > > candidate for watering my pumpkin patch?
> > >
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