Re: well vs. softened water
- Subject: Re: well vs. softened water
- From: P* k* <p*@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 18:20:35 -0700 (PDT)
not to mention many of the water softeners provide a higher sodium content
water - which for sure will not help your plants! (Some softeners do not,
but all softeners cost money to operate, so irrespective of sodium, very
foolish to spend extra money on water for the lawn, garden or washing the car,
terrace, whatever.
From: Debbie Runkle <yorunk13@att.net>
>To:
pumpkins@hort.net
>Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2011 9:00 PM
>Subject: Re:
well vs. softened water
>
>Glad I re-plumbed.
>
>Debbie
>
>
>
>
>________________________________
>From: "French5204@aol.com"
<French5204@aol.com>
>To: pumpkins@hort.net
>Sent: Thu, September 1, 2011
6:38:00 PM
>Subject: Re: well vs. softened water
>
>Deb,
>
>Don't use the soft
water on the garden or any of your plants. The water
>that runs thru the
softener has the natural chemicals of the water removed
>when it goes thru
the softener. Those are some of the natural things that
>plants need from
water to survive. Using softened water will give any of your
>plants a slow
death of lack of nutrition.
>
>
>In a message dated 9/1/2011 8:25:54 P.M.
Eastern Daylight Time,
>yorunk13@att.net writes:
>
>This year I re-did some
plumbing so the outdoor faucet that I use for the
>pumpkins and veggie
garden does not go through the softener. ( Another
>mystery
>of the
builders regarding running both outdoor faucets through the
>softener.)
>Obviously there is rust in the water as most people with private wells
>knows.
>Is that a problem using straight well water? At this point in the
game
>nothing
>will help, but I was curious.
>
>Debbie
>
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