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I think I tested Walmart drinking water @000PPM. It's pretty clean.
I'm having a hard time keeping up with watering because of this heat and sun here in Maine. I hope we get tons of rain this weekend.
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Drinking water, while often purified through reverse osmosis filtering can sometimes have salts and other minerals added for taste. Read the label carefully.
I use the distilled as a monthly soil flush and R/O the rest of the time. Now that I have critters with the plants I don't use any fertilizers (critter poo does it's doody there) but I still do the distilled flush out of habit and the plants don't seem to mind.
Does nobody use one or two larger containers and put them in smaller for use? I have two 5 gallon "Culligan water machine" jugs for the bulk of water storage then I siphon out into two 1 gallon jugs for day to day use in the hand mister, garden sprayer and crab pond refills. The crab water contains a minute trace of Iodine (1 drop per 5 gallons) and I'm not sure what if anything it would do to CPs so I keep it separate and never put the crab pond water in the mister.
Hi Jim!
All my water is rain water. Despite the VERY, VERY dry summer I've been lucky here in eastern N.Y. I have a 30 gallon plastic garbage can full as a main backup and collect rain mainly in 5, 3 and 1 gallon buckets. I had to go to the backup ONCE this summer for a few gallons. I fill up 1 gallon milk jugs as well and try to keep at least 3-4 in the house for the inside CPs and other plants.
Great (and funny!) thread! The things we do for our CPs!
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