[madcat]

You shouldnt use foul water, ie. from the loo, and I wouldn't use bleach or anything too caustic if it is going into the barrels.  When (if!) I clean the bathroom properly, the water will have to go down the drain but the tomatoes are thriving on water with a little added soap, toothpaste and shampoo. 

My grandmas both used to value a 'nice bit of soapy water, dear' after doing the handwashing, for brushing the back yard clean.

[mumofstig]

and that was one of the reasons that front doorsteps were lovely and white 

[barbarella]

We have a bit of milky cloud now in Somerset - watching the sky anxiously!  Hopefully we'll get some rain tonight in the west and north but you poor folks in the south east will have to wait a bit longer. 

[kari]

I've been recycling as much water as I can, the kids paddlingpool water gets decanted into 25ltr water bottles, carried to the allotment & emptied into the water butts.

I also always take the water removed from my tropical fish tanks during water changes around 100ltrs once per week, I hope this water is ok to use on the veg

[JayG]

Aquarium water is certainly fine for veg, and even contains small quantities of nutrients although I wouldn't go quite as far as saying it's a free liquid feed!

[Humbledoor]

My rain dance has worked! It's been raining here from about 4 o'clock this afternoon, lotty is benefiting from the downpour, although it will need to rain overnight to do any real good.

Hope you all get some rain soon 

Humble

[Spana]

I use to have a hose pipe up the side of the house and in through the bathroom window. We'd leave the bath water in at night and in the morning when it was cold i'd  syphon it out onto the garden.
One day i had the really good idea  of feeding the plants at the same time.  So i got the big dish of juice that drips from the bottom of the wormery and tipped it into the cold bath water.  Set the syphon running and left it to empty.  When i went back up the water had gone but the bath was full of wiggling worms that were all trying to climb the side of the bath.
It took several days  to get over the sight before i could lay and soak again

[mumofstig]

Ewww.............

If it was a 'suck it and see' syphon it's a good job you didn't get a mouthful of worms YUK

[Spana]

 

 

[pigeonpie]

The idea of those worms in the bath did make me giggle!

We had a few spots of rain earlier and I got really excited but it didn't amount to more.  The few drops evaporated as soon as they hit the paving slabs.  I will dig out my tambourine and give the rain dancing another go tomorrow.

[Jome]

How do you get it out of the sink and onto the plot stig? Curious as I cannot imagine what kind of contraption you would need, apart from siphoning it off - or slowly scooping it out of the bowl which would take ageees. Sorry if I'm ignorant! I have to drive to the plot too, so wouldn't be able to carry water as have v.small car

[mumofstig]

How do you get it out of the sink and onto the plot stig? Curious as I cannot imagine what kind of contraption you would need, apart from siphoning it off - or slowly scooping it out of the bowl which would take ageees. Sorry if I'm ignorant! I have to drive to the plot too, so wouldn't be able to carry water as have v.small car

I do my washing up in a bowl, so it's easy to pick it up and tip it over the plants
But it is easy to syphon bath water through the hose and out onto your garden if your bathroom is upstairs.

[Jome]

Hmm, I have a downstairs bathroom, so maybe not so easy. Hate to waste water though!

[JayG]

THIS might be taking things a bit far for you Jome but I used to have something similar and it did work!

[Jome]

Ooh nice bit of kit JayG, but I think my husband might divorce me if I bought that! he's not a gardening fan and that might be a step too far in his opinion!