Everyone who has answered this question seems to ignor that the original
poster said that the discharged water would be from either the warm/cold or
cold/cold washing cycles. Maybe the responders don't do laundry. Cold/cold
means cold wash and cold rinse. That obviously should not be too hot.
Warm/cold means warm wash and cold rinse. So the only issue is the warm
water. Warm wash water probably less than 100 degrees. I doubt very much
that it would be too warm to harm the plants in the garden. The poster
didn't ask about the soap, but that would really be my question.

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Compostman
Washington, DC
Zone 7
"Frogleg" wrote in message
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On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 05:05:35 -0400, harry long wrote:

Anyone know what the maximum temperature water garden plants can
tolerate before being killed by too hot a recycled water from a
clothes washer ???

I want to recycle wash water but only on warm/cold and cold/cold
cycles.... since I'd use an automatic sump pump the water will be
discharged onto the gardens immediately.

This is an interesting question. Is it feasible to measure the
temperature of the water you plan to reuse? In spite of another
poster's declaration that he/she used water from a sun-heated hose
with no problem, that always seems too hot (on my hand), so I direct
the hose away from my flowers & veg until it's cooled a bit.

Another consideration for measuring temperature on discharge is that,
whiile the washer might be fed with really hot water directly from the
heater, surely it cools down a bit as it sloshes around in a cold
metal tub with the laundry. This sounds like excellent material for
a paper of some sort. :-)