Recycled Water in the Greenhouse
Water is a valuable commodity. Whether for drinking, washing or watering in your garden, water is essential. Re-using water is something that many drought ridden communities work hard at. Unfortunately the practice of re-use is not taken advantage of in our nation as a whole. Re-cycling water is doing your part to preserve our water resources, with the added benefit of saving you money.

Posted Thursday, April 6, 2006

Recycling Washing Water -

Water used for laundry is not considered a good source of water for your garden. The laundry water contains detergents, bleach and possibly other chemicals that can harm or even kill your plants. But, the rinse water that comes from your washing machine is quite safe to re-use on plants. There are some people that use all natural methods to clean their clothes such as vinegar, salt and home made soaps. Most of these natural cleaners could still kill your plants and vegetables. If you use a rinse bucket in your sink when you are washing dishes you can use it to water in your garden without risk.

Taking a bath? If you have been taking a bath (not a bubble bath) and the water is not too soapy, you can reuse this water and water your garden. A little bit of soap will not hurt most, and could actually help to kill some types of bugs in the garden. Water from a bubble bath would contain too much soap, however.

Nature's Supply-

Keep buckets placed outside of your greenhouse so they can fill with water as it rains. Keep in mind that to prevent attracting bugs, you could keep a lid on the bucket with only tiny pin holes to allow water but not bugs. You could also devise a fabric covering over the bucket to allow the water in and keep mosquitoes out. You would easily be able to use this type of extra water in the greenhouse and in your garden.

Watering your plants and vegetables in the greenhouse is regular thing. Devise a method to catch the water from the drains in your greenhouse or from under the shelving in your greenhouse as excess water can run down, be recollected, and reused.

If you are having a picnic or a barbeque outside you often will have a bucket of water sitting out to clean your hands, wash utensils or to put fires out. Use left over water like this in your garden or in watering the plants in the greenhouse - remeber- every little drop matters when the dry seasons hit.