Using tap water, using bottled water for cooking & such
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Using tap water w/ gravity filter for bog garden
Comments (2)Chris, You should have no problem setting up a reverse/osmosis system. It is easy and well within your needs. The only considerations you need to be concerned about it the life of the filteration membrane and that of the filter cartridges too. I use a SpectraPure system that I put in myself. I do not have it dripping into a bog but into a rain barrel where I can drain it off into jugs for hand watering. You do not even need to do that. All you would need to do is to have the drip line that the r/o water comes out of feed into a hose, even a garden hose, and arrange the flow to conform to gravity feeding of the bog. Just run the system 24/7. To use gravity feed you only have to hang the system up above the faucet that feeds water into the r/o system. So all you would have to deal with is the gradient from the outtake of the system to the intake of your bog feedline. I am including the link for SpectraPure. I'm not connected to it in anyway apart from being a very satisfied customer. Here is a link that might be useful: SpecturaPure...See MoreAccidental Use of Tap Water
Comments (3)NO... It wont make any difference It's salt & mineral build up in the soil that will eventually kill them if you water them constantly with tap water One watering wont hurt them...See MoreTap water, bottled water, rain water
Comments (20)It is so nice and useful to read all the information and experiences of our forum members here. I never thought seriously about the water I use for germination, normally I used tap water. Once I used distilled water for spray the plants because the tap water spray make the leaves so ugly. When the water dried all the leaves have whitish residues from the water probably the lime/chalk. When the tap water is dried always chalk/lime built up on the surface. So we have vinegar plus solution for regular cleaning. One of my friends apartment's tap water is pretty bad when he boils it the water lost its color, it looks like water with milk. I hate this chalky water. However, I do not know this hard water is good for the plant. Caelian...See MoreBottled Water vs. Tap....interesting article
Comments (16)LOL, barnmom! Add me to the lsit of people who absolutely refuse to buy bottled water. Ice Mountain (the Nestle company) bottles water just a few miles from the farm. It comes right out of the aquafer and into their plant and gets bottled. Not filtered or distilled or anything else, just bottled. So a foreign company is pumping millions of gallons of water out of our own aquafers and selling it back to us, in flastic bottles that will then fill up the landfills. Sigh. And we're foolish enough to buy it. Not me. My city water here in town is high in sulfer and smells. I use it for coffee because I told the boss that coffee is brown and our water is brown, so it just skips a step, LOL. For drinking I take a 2 gallon thermos to the farm and fill it with that good old "Ice Mountain", right out of Dad's tap. In a pinch, I drink my own tap water, it's been tested as safe to drink even if it is a bit off color. (grin) I usually have a pitcher of iced tea in my refrigerator and I'll drink that instead of water, although I know water is really better for me. I have a thermos that goes to work with me for water or tea or Crystal Light. If I run out or forget my thermos I drink the water from the fountain and everywhere else I drink water from the tap. Heck, if I'm going to pay for a bottle of something I might as well make it juice or tea or Diet Coke, not my own water. Annie...See Moresushipup1
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