[greeneyes]

I covet your warm weather. I believe that I read that letting city water set for an hour or so can help make it less harmful to plants.

We use only rain water or well water. City water would have to be hauled in. The only time we did that was when we had the really bad summer drought where all the rain water was gone by the end of May.

Then we watered the perennials-fruit trees and bushes, and let everything else burn up, except for a few heirlooms in my raised bed next to the house.

[JRandomFreeper]

When I pulled back the mulch/leaves to get down to the landscape fabric, I found this. It's about 1/2" thick mat of mycelium growing on the wood chips covering the landscape fabric. It is very large, covering square meters of garden space.

That's part of the reason I decide to go no-till in this part of the garden. If I tilled that in, it would break up and die, and not hold water, or move nutrients to plants or build up the soil, or any of the other wonderful things those micro-organisms do.

I am very happy with this development.

/johnny

[SisterK]

Greeneyes, I had heard the same thing. Chlorine evaporates, sunshine sterilizes. If you can draw the city water into buckets and wait 24 hours, then water your plants, it is even better. I’ve always had well water so I have no idea what they put in city water.