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["Doreen Howard" <doreenh@ticon.net>]

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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