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To: Wneighbor

Yes, I too am a hurry up and plant it.

Try to remember that the warm growing plants want the soil at 50 degrees........or LOL, a hot water bottle to make it through the night.

When I still used the wood stove, I was building a wall of water bottles around it, my thought being that they would heat and release it later, and I would have the water for the animals and garden if hard time hit, or the water company broke down as it does at times.

I have to be careful what I do, as any old gal, is suspected of being senile.....but I am building a platform of water in front of the sliding glass doors.

I started filling my large coffee cans that I can’t bear to toss out and they are all plastic now, so won’t rust.

My pipes are not buried deep enough and freeze some years, so I leave the faucets on during the freezing weather, it has always bothered me to waste all that water, so I started filling the coffee cans.

They will make a nice base for plants to set on.

And can be dumped, if the cans are needed to store beans, grains, etc.


9,537 posted on 02/03/2009 7:17:33 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1990507/posts?page=7451 [Survival,food,garden,crafts,and more)
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To: nw_arizona_granny

You and I are senile in exactly the same way about water! So, let’s just luxurate in it. ;-)

That water running out on freezing nights always tore me up too. For 17 years I lived in a old farmhouse on 3/4 acre. We had 1/4 acre garden and a small orchard. I undid the drain pipe on the bathtub and the kitchen sink under the house and clamped flexible washing machine drain hose on the end. My washer was in an outbuilding and already had a long drain hose like that to the garden area when I bought the house. So, I ended up being able to use the gray water from the bath, kitchen sink AND washing machine to water my fruit trees and garden. I really want to be able to do that again because it’s no use having all that “good” water going to the sewer plant.


9,543 posted on 02/03/2009 8:05:59 AM PST by Wneighbor
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