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  • From: Ginda Fisher <ginda@concentric.net>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] drought
  • Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:21:50 -0500

How bad is typical laundry detergent? What should I watch out for?
I've been thinking of getting a small sump-pump to move the rinse water
from the laundry up to the back yard. (Hauling it by bucket involves
carrying it through too many rooms where a spill would be troublesome,
but a hose up and out the window looks do-able.)


On Sunday, March 3, 2002, at 10:09 PM, Doreen Howard wrote:

> Ginda,
> Even if you have water restrictions due to drought this summer, you can
> water a new currant bush or two with gray water--leftover water from the
> house. The dog or cat's stale water dish (instead of dumping it),
> dishwashing water, bath water, even washing machine water, if you don't
> use
> phosphate-loaded soaps. I grew up in arid So. Calif. where we watched
> our
> water consumption all the time. I remember how my Dad rigged the hose
> from
> the washing machine to pour into his vegetable garden. And we used to
> haul
> dish water out to the lemon and banana trees all the time.
> Doreen Howard,
> Wisconsin, Zone 4b, where winter finally arrived--2 feet of snow fell
> in the
> last two days.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ginda Fisher" <ginda@concentric.net>
> To: "NAFEX" <nafex@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 8:14 PM
> Subject: [nafex] drought
>
>
>> I was planning on putting in several shrubs this spring (including a
>> couple of currants, so this isn't entirely off-topic) but we've had an
>> unusually warm and dry winter, and I'm worried we'll have a drought
>> this
>> summer. I can probably water anyway (my town rarely has tight water
>> restrictions - every-other day is about as bad as I've seen it) but I
>> wonder if I ought to just wait a year.
>>
>> In some ways, how much it rains during the spring and summer may be
>> more
>> important to success than how wet the winter was, but if it's generally
>> dry, maybe more water would be needed. And then, even if we don't hve
>> real watering restrictions, I don't want to be wasteful in a dry year.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Ginda FIsher
>> eastern Mass, zone 6
>>
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