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from Yuri contains these words: 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. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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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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In article , Rusty Hinge 2 writes: | The message | from Yuri contains these words: | | 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. |
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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 wrote: snipped With peace and brightest of blessings, len & bev -- "Be Content With What You Have And May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In A World That You May Not Understand." http://www.lensgarden.com.au/ |
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In article , Rusty Hinge 2 writes: | | 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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The message
from Anne Jackson contains these words: The message from Rusty Hinge 2 contains these words: 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... -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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The message
from Anne Jackson contains these words: Deleterious W@nking Procrastinators Damned Worthless Prevaricators Entered. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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The message
from Sacha contains these words: Down with Plum trees..... Entered - though it's not in the best spirit of savagery or vengeance that I'm looking for. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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In article , Rusty Hinge 2 writes: | | 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... Department of Wittering and Procrastination. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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The message
from Zhang DaWei contains these words: Demonizing With Passion Demonstrating Woeful Procedures Designed With Pomposity Developments With Plundering Definitely Without Panache Entered -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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