Is it ok to use bath water - that has been used! So it will have soap etc in.
I always let it go down the plug but as i am on a water meter now i want to make things as cheap as possible and the plants do like to drink!
thanks
Liam
I don't think it is recommended for watering fruit and veggies, but flowers and your lawn, then why not indeedy!
It is ok to use on your flower beds and containers. We use the dish water sometimes on our containers.
In the summer of 1976 bathwater went on everything except the potatoes and calcifuges. There was nothing else to give them for nearly 3 months, and they all survived splendidly.
Yeah go for it, I'm only sorry that 1. my bath run off goes into the rainwater down pipe, and 2 the downpipe is cast iron.
My brother was having his house extended and renovated before Christmas and gave me his washing machine (which I needed badly) and his dishwasher. Seeing as OH is not accustomed to having WM in kitchen I put the DW in there and bought a plastic box type thing for out the back and put the WM in there. DW was used twice since, at most. It's a pain to go out every day with the dirty ...socks et al. But I have been putting the watering can under the outflow pipe and collecting the grey water. Three or four cans per wash. I have a spare wheelie bin to store it in.
there was a link recently on SandersJ's contribution, I think it was www.greywater.com. It looked good. I read a lot of it all the way through. I think it said that grey water is only good for 24 hr storage, not much good is it. But it stinks to high heaven. Mine is down the garden.
Ciaran
As said it's fine on flower beds. I wouldn't use it in containers, though (nowhere for nasties to get washed away too).
But don't use if you have a skin infection or use shampoo, bubble bath, etc.
It's the only water (other than rain) that my flower beds have seen all year.
A good tip is to use your potatoe water on your containers as it contains the soil that came with the potatoe (If they where not washed potatoes? ::))