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Filtered water for acid loving plants

Last post 23-05-2008 9:18 PM by Phot's-Moll. 10 replies.

• 22/05/2008 01:10 PM
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,200	Reply | Contact Once the water butts start running low I tend to save this water for the pots of blueberries, lilies and citrus plants that I have and was wondering if the butts run dry can I use filtered water instead?  Just wondered if anyone had tried it. sue1002

• 22/05/2008 04:35 PM	In reply to
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743	Reply | Contact Will that not be expensive water sue1002? maybe if you have a beck or river nearby that water will be useable, that said I have used tap water on my blue berries should i stop and use rain water? if so I will be a fool because I have collected no rain water at all, I was being smug you see about living in the rainy bit digger

• 22/05/2008 05:24 PM

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  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,200

  Reply | Contact  The only river near here is salt water digger and I aint gonna be carrying it back over a mile away or have it slopping around in the back of my car   I filter the tap water for drinking and cooking anyway and the filters give a month's use so another few jugfuls isn't going to make much difference.  You might be able to get away with using your water as it's softer up norf than it is down here, and I do so like my cuppa without the scum on top. sue1002

• 22/05/2008 05:50 PM	In reply to
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743	Reply | Contact OOH sue1002, that sounds grim for you is the river salty because you are near to the sea? I saw limescale on TV apparently it gets in the washing machines and kettles, is that where you live? will it not poison you? digger

• 22/05/2008 06:49 PM

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  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,200

  Reply | Contact  Yes digger, it's the North Sea water that runs into our river.    We get bad limescale down here (but we get the good weather to compensate) that's why I filter the water and the kettle lasts a lot longer.  That washing machine we had that shot water out of the drawer finally gave up the ghost just before Christmas, it was less than two years old, so when we got a new one we also bought an attachment that fits onto the inlet pipe with magnets in it, which is supposed to dissolve the limescale before it gets to the machine. sue1002

• 22/05/2008 07:38 PM

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  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743

  Reply | Contact That's terrible sue1002, i do remember the washing machine but only two years old that is expensive. And I am fully aware of the weather situation mate, but I know that you like to remind me about it every so often However I do have a solution i will send water down the pipeline to you, it will be good quality with no limestaones in it and you send me some of the good weather up here. digger

• 22/05/2008 08:25 PM	In reply to
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,200	Reply | Contact  I don't think you will be wanting our forecasted weekend weather then digger?  I saw on the forecast earlier that Saturday should be dry for most of the day and for Sunday and Monday is , at least the water butts should get filled up again sue1002

• 23/05/2008 09:21 AM	In reply to
  bogweevil Location: Joined on: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 2,043	Reply | Contact Any water is better than no water and when my water butts fail, I use plain untreated tap water on my ericaceous containers without ill-effect; and Three Valleys Water supply drink that is as hard as any you will find.  The extra calcium is no doubt washed out by winter rains and rain water waterings later.   Boggy Beware the bat-eared bogweevil

• 23/05/2008 06:53 PM	In reply to
  Phot's-Moll Location: The sunny South coast. Joined on: 06 Jan 2007 Posts: 3,347	Reply | Contact Our water is so full of chalk that we don't need milk in our tea ...  Whether you think you can do a thing, or think you cannot, you are right.

• 23/05/2008 07:11 PM	In reply to
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,200	Reply | Contact That sounds worse than ours  sue1002

• 23/05/2008 09:18 PM	In reply to
  Phot's-Moll Location: The sunny South coast. Joined on: 06 Jan 2007 Posts: 3,347	Reply | Contact I'm exaggerating - we can see through it, but it's very hard. Whether you think you can do a thing, or think you cannot, you are right.