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Old 14-08-2007, 03:04 PM posted to rec.gardens
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Default tap vs. filtered water, and how often?

On Aug 14, 12:27?am, Persephone wrote:
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:54:12 -0700, Sheldon wrote:
On Aug 12, 2:29?pm, Persephone wrote:
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:59:34 -0500, "cat daddy"
wrote:


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Most municipal water supplies fresh from the tap are pretty heavy on
chlorine... you may want to consider filling a large container and
letting it sit a few days for the chlorine to evaporate, then use that
water for your plants.


thanks to whichever poster offered this golden hint!


That would be moi. I don't keep house plants anymore because now I
have cats


non sequitur!!!

not mutually exclusive



You haven't met my cats. LOL

Actually I do still have one house plant, an asparagus fern that
spends summers outdoors hanging from a tree and spends winters hanging
from a beam by a cellar window. But I don't really need indoor plants
these days, for the last few years I own 106 acres of outdoor plants.

this trick of aging water from my days of raising tropical fish, in
fact I was the one who brought the very first batch of fancy veil tail
guppies into the US from Germany (1953