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Washing up water

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  • Helix said:
    Washing up water is fine....just let it cool down first! 

    I have a square’ish bucket that sits by my feet when I shower, and I get about 3/4s of a bucket every morning. 

    All this talk of showers is making me very jealous ... just kidding, thank you for your suggestion. I have a square bucket so I'll do the same thing when water supply allows.
  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    I throw mine on the bedding plants not, sure I would on my tomato plants though.

    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • Treeface said:
    But now I haven't got enough water for a shower - its a jug and bowl if I'm lucky.
    What do you mean? Is your property not connected to mains water supply?

    No it isn't, my water supply is underground from the hills behind me, collected in a large tank then filtered for the house.It's been very dry since February and very hot which equals drought!
  • HeliosHelios Posts: 232
    We have one of those plastic muck buckets sitting outside the back door and we tip the used washing up water in there. When it’s getting full we dip a watering can in and do the garden.  
    My tomatoes are in pots in the greenhouse and, like Kili, I don’t use washing up water on them.
  • Treeface said:
    Nobody has yet suggested that you could urinate on your tomatoes...

    mmm, I think maybe I'll give that idea a miss but thanks anyway!
  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    You see, midnightblue, some people don't know what it's like living in the back of beyond?  There's a 17 acre field rising up behind our borehole and we always look with trepidation when the slurry spreader arrives, especially if it's wet weather.  Power cut = no water = no flushing toilets = off to the water butts with buckets, but still alive after 13 years.
  • nick615 said:
    You see, midnightblue, some people don't know what it's like living in the back of beyond? 
    That's true:) - I forget that being without water and power are part of my everyday life (yours too) but to others it must sound weird!
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Treeface said:
    Nobody has yet suggested that you could urinate on your tomatoes...
    You obviously haven't read the thread "Liquid Gold".
  • josusa47 said:
    Treeface said:
    Nobody has yet suggested that you could urinate on your tomatoes...
    You obviously haven't read the thread "Liquid Gold".

    You obviously haven't read the thread "Liquid Gold".
    I have now but I still think I'll give it a miss! ☺
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    josusa47 said:
    Treeface said:
    Nobody has yet suggested that you could urinate on your tomatoes...
    You obviously haven't read the thread "Liquid Gold".

    You obviously haven't read the thread "Liquid Gold".
    I have now but I still think I'll give it a miss! ☺
    We’re all still alive, 😀
    just the job on the compost heap. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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