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Runs down into a 40 gallon tub as does rainwater. Have started using it
for plants and notice it has an unpleasant smell. Is there any way of
stopping this and am I right in not using washing machine water.

Unpleasant smell is due to old skin scales, etc, decaying. It won't do
the plants any harm, but will act as a weak phosphate fertiliser.

You are quite right not to use the outfall from the washing-machine as
many washing powders contain borax, which is an effective weedkiller.

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Runs down into a 40 gallon tub as does rainwater. Have started using it
for plants and notice it has an unpleasant smell. Is there any way of
stopping this and am I right in not using washing machine water.

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| from Yuri contains these words:
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| Runs down into a 40 gallon tub as does rainwater. Have started using it
| for plants and notice it has an unpleasant smell. Is there any way of
| stopping this and am I right in not using washing machine water.
|
| Unpleasant smell is due to old skin scales, etc, decaying. It won't do
| the plants any harm, but will act as a weak phosphate fertiliser.
|
| You are quite right not to use the outfall from the washing-machine as
| many washing powders contain borax, which is an effective weedkiller.

Er, ineffective weedkiller, shirley?

Plants need boron in small quantities - if there is enough in your
washing-machine water to make the soil toxic to them, you have other
problems!

Your statement stands, of course - most washing-machine powders are
pretty nasty mixtures of chemicals. The water could well cause leaf
burn, if nothing else.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

g'day yuri,

don't store it at all is the way to go use it all as fresh as you get
it, if you have too much to use for the plants then use a bucket and
use it to flush your toilet thus saving good clean drinking water
wastage for that task.

ans use the washing machine water the same way also good for gardens
if you want to make it even safer to use for potted plants as well
check our laundry gel recipe out it gets good revues from all those
who convert, we have used it for a decade now and my lovley is never
likley to go back to those other brands. it does as a hand wash as
well as general purpose cleaner as well and if you can get used ot no
suds in the dish water it is good there also.

we also use our dishwater in the gardens, we wash using a basin that
sits in teh kitchen sink, and at our plce we wash each second day.

water management begins with using water at least twice. oh pee in a
bucket and add that in there as well for food trees and vege' garden.


On Thu, 15 May 2008 22:02:40 +0100, Yuri
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len & bev

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A World That You May Not Understand."

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| You are quite right not to use the outfall from the washing-machine as
| many washing powders contain borax, which is an effective weedkiller.

Er, ineffective weedkiller, shirley?

Plants need boron in small quantities - if there is enough in your
washing-machine water to make the soil toxic to them, you have other
problems!

Your statement stands, of course - most washing-machine powders are
pretty nasty mixtures of chemicals. The water could well cause leaf
burn, if nothing else.

Some washing powders formulated for hard water areas contain enough
borax to be a real nuisance. My old man plumbed the outfall of the
washing machine into the barnyard, and it killed a peach tree in pretty
short order.

It made some very pretty pieces of wood, a couple of pistol stocks and a
new stock for an old air rifle. I wish I'd still got some of it - I've
just acquired two restorable percussion boxlock pistols, both requiring
new woodenbits.

Also I want a piece of fruitwood for a steeply-dropped butt on a
full-length flintlock rifle stock. Sort-of bent at the base. I had a
fine piece of wild cherry which was growing out of one of my hedges. It
was just the right size, and just the right shape, and, it was beginning
to show signs of dying-off, so I dug it out and sealed all the cut roots
and the cut top with wax and left it in the cart-store for a few years.
Being very hard-up when it was seasoned, and not knowing anyone who
could be relied upon to do a proper job with a whizzy-round saw, I put
it in a sawing horse and cut it down with a ripsaw. When the first plank
fell away it revealed a patch of rot in such a position that I couldn't
get a stock out of it at all.

While the wood wasn't wasted, I still have the ironwork for a New
England flintlock rifle waiting for attention...

Anyone?

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Rusty Hinge 2 writes:
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| Some washing powders formulated for hard water areas contain enough
| borax to be a real nuisance. My old man plumbed the outfall of the
| washing machine into the barnyard, and it killed a peach tree in pretty
| short order

Oh, I believe that - it's just that I doubt that the borax was the
major cause. That isn't the only thing they have in them that can
cause trouble to even sewage plants.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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Also I want a piece of fruitwood for a steeply-dropped butt on a
full-length flintlock rifle stock. Sort-of bent at the base. I had a
fine piece of wild cherry which was growing out of one of my hedges. It
was just the right size, and just the right shape, and, it was beginning
to show signs of dying-off, so I dug it out and sealed all the cut roots
and the cut top with wax and left it in the cart-store for a few years.
Being very hard-up when it was seasoned, and not knowing anyone who
could be relied upon to do a proper job with a whizzy-round saw, I put
it in a sawing horse and cut it down with a ripsaw. When the first plank
fell away it revealed a patch of rot in such a position that I couldn't
get a stock out of it at all.

While the wood wasn't wasted, I still have the ironwork for a New
England flintlock rifle waiting for attention...

You should've said earlier! We cut down a 20 y.o. plum tree
last year, to accommodate the summerhouse...

Another crime to lay at the door of the DWP.

Announcement of Competition for Urglers, Sheddi and Zetnuts:

Find the most apt words represented by the letters DWP...

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| Another crime to lay at the door of the DWP.
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| Announcement of Competition for Urglers, Sheddi and Zetnuts:
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| Find the most apt words represented by the letters DWP...

Department of Wittering and Procrastination.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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Also I want a piece of fruitwood for a steeply-dropped butt on a
full-length flintlock rifle stock. Sort-of bent at the base. I had a
fine piece of wild cherry which was growing out of one of my hedges. It
was just the right size, and just the right shape, and, it was beginning
to show signs of dying-off, so I dug it out and sealed all the cut roots
and the cut top with wax and left it in the cart-store for a few years.
Being very hard-up when it was seasoned, and not knowing anyone who
could be relied upon to do a proper job with a whizzy-round saw, I put
it in a sawing horse and cut it down with a ripsaw. When the first plank
fell away it revealed a patch of rot in such a position that I couldn't
get a stock out of it at all.

While the wood wasn't wasted, I still have the ironwork for a New
England flintlock rifle waiting for attention...

You should've said earlier! We cut down a 20 y.o. plum tree
last year, to accommodate the summerhouse...

Another crime to lay at the door of the DWP.

Announcement of Competition for Urglers, Sheddi and Zetnuts:

Find the most apt words represented by the letters DWP...

Down with Plum trees.....


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South Devon
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children.'

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