Topic: No rainwater for blueberries

[amphibian]

Can't you drive down and get some?

I don't need any, I've got rain water, it was last year I used tap water. The plants have only shown the chlorosis this year.

What about the Tunbrdge Wells?

The Wells are chalybeate springs, very rich in iron and soft, I suppose they'd be excellent water for blueberries which suffer from Iron deficiency very easily.

[debster]

what about cheap stores own bottled water til you can get some rain/river water etc would that be any good???? i know some supermarkets charge around 13 fot 2 litres
dont know if its any good though

[OllieC]

what about cheap stores own bottled water til you can get some rain/river water etc would that be any good???? i know some supermarkets charge around 13 fot 2 litres
dont know if its any good though

My dad uses it for lots of his houseplants - living near Portsmouth in a flat, it's the easiest way to keep them alive.

[davholla]

Thank you everyone for the replies.  I managed to persuade my parents to give me some (they are very anti fruit growing in small gardens like mine, so didn't want to).

I think I will buy a water filter for future use.

The only bad thing is that one of the bushes has got shrivelled fruit - are these a right off or might they survive?

[OllieC]

Ha, good old parents! A normal filtering jug wouldn't change the pH... or do you mean a water softener?

[davholla]

Ha, good old parents

Not really they only helped 'cos otherwise I would start using the condenser dryer again which is less environmentally friendly than the line.  If I had a normal dryer they would not have helped.

Ha, good old parents! A normal filtering jug wouldn't change the pH... or do you mean a water softener?

I mean one of these :-
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/8422271/Trail/searchtext%3EWATER+FILTER.htm

That should remove the hardness, shouldn't it?

[OllieC]

Only joking about the parents! I don't think that jug will alter the hardness, I think activated charcoal will remove chlorine and possibly nitrates, but that's about it...

[davholla]

Only joking about the parents! I don't think that jug will alter the hardness, I think activated charcoal will remove chlorine and possibly nitrates, but that's about it...

I think it will according to :-
http://www.hardwater.org/water_treatment.html

[OllieC]

Only joking about the parents! I don't think that jug will alter the hardness, I think activated charcoal will remove chlorine and possibly nitrates, but that's about it...

I think it will according to :-
http://www.hardwater.org/water_treatment.html

Can't open it over here... Hmm, where's baccy man, he always knows these things... My logic is that I have activated charcoal in my fish tank & it doesn't alter the pH, just mops up the crud... delighted to be corrected though!