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Use Dishwater This past summer when we were not getting rain and communities were announcing water restrictions, I decided not to use the hose (or buckets with plant food) for watering. We home-school three teenage boys. I wash dishes three times a day every day. I started using two dishpans, one for washing and one for catching the rinse water. I put them both into a 5-gallon bucket, which the boys took outside to water the various gardens. Only dishwater. I didn’t add anything. We have a tomato and mint garden. We have
a garden of chamomile, a fire bush and marigolds, and another with
different bulbs. There are a variety of other garden areas with
“tommy toes,” very young trees, lilacs, forsythia, mums
and more. All my plants flourished. The trees grew more last summer
than ever (except one which was overlooked – poor thing didn’t
seem to grow at all). Sherrie Parker |