bath water to water plants

[shaolin101]

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

[shaolin101]

[Mrs Ava]

I don't think it is recommended for watering fruit and veggies, but flowers and your lawn, then why not indeedy!

[the_snail]

It is ok to use on your flower beds and containers. We use the dish water sometimes on our containers.

[Kepouros]

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.

[DolphinGarden]

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

[aquilegia]

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.

[the_snail]

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?  ::))