Such wonderful wonderful rain fell from the skies Thursday night.
The earth in the gardens was beginning to feel bone dry and the plants were beginning to wilt regardless of how much water we poured onto them.
We recieved 24mm in about 5hours which for Toowoomba is pretty good. At the end of last summer it went for 40 days with no rain. At the time I only had a 500L tank. It was empty so I had to use the kids bath water to water the vegies, luckily they don't ge very dirty. (Please note you should not use greywater in the vegetable garden. Especially on vegies that are eaten raw!
Our kids bath in plain water and I only used it plants such as the pumpkins and the capsicums.)
I find it fasinating that people can come up with clever ideas to save water. I have read several articles & blogs about people using their kitchen water, for the garden. The water is cleaned and filtered though a worm farm, usually in a bath tub and the resulting water is clean enough for the garden. Small amounts of washing liquid must be used and very dirty water is not put through the system, but how clever!
Our shower water is used in the front vege garden and the flower garden. A diverter is connected to the main line out of the shower. This line is then sent to a large storm water pipe, to which a funky purple hose is attached to. Yay no more buckets!! The kids water goes into the vege patch and our water goes to the flowers out the front.
This is our grey water system. It can be removed or turned off if necessary. We had to use such a large pvc pipe to allow for the water to be able to drain out the tub. Otherwise you have a shower whilist standing in 2inches of dirty water. Basically it is just a very large hose that avoids greywater being stored. Oh and no more buckets!!!!
Funny how it only once a precious resource is nearly gone before people understand just how important it is....
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