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watering with hard water
Here we are in London and the ground is getting drier, actually the pots
are getting really dry. We have a mains water irrigation system, some drippers, some sprayers, and use it if there has been no rain for a few days. But I do notice that the leaves afterwards show how hard the water is - the lime is left as a whitish bloom where the droplets evaporated. Is this generally OK or should we try and counterbalance the lime with an acid drench now and then? We don't irrigate the camellias which are in a relatively shady area, but a potted azalea would suffer without the drips when we were away. Otherwise we have all sorts of stuff - roses, lilies, delphiniums blue and geraniums red - I'll put up some photos soon on Flickr. As a rule, though, is a lot of hard water bad or indifferent for most plants? -- Kate B PS 'elvira' is spamtrapped - please reply to 'elviraspam' at cockaigne dot org dot uk if you want to reply personally |
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