Ping George.com aka rob from NZ

 Do you still have pics online of your greywater system so that Charlie can
check see what you are doing to recycle household greywater?

 

not that I can find. Bloody Charlie, grrr, he should have booked marked at
the time.

They might still be up but I long ago deleted the bookmark.

If you can find a discussion in this or rec.gardens.edible from last summer
I will have posted a link to the website. Can't find the bastard myself
doing a google search however.

rob

 

You don't mean,


- Tampilkan teks kutipan -
don't drag me into this debate, I'm just an innocent bystander. I will
provide my expertise if someone answers my post about community gardens
in
Sydney.
My experiments with waste water was limited to our summer drought. 4 +
months of fa water so I used the water from the washing machine on to
the
lawn by way of a surge tank (old rubbish bin) and scavanged washing
machine
pipe joined together with a gravity fall off the back deck. The system
worked well. I was initially worried about salt build up from the
washing
powders. I brought some non-phosphorous powder but I also used some
low(ish)
phosphorous powder as well. Upon reflection I was not too worried about
salt
levels in the powder. My problem was a long drought by local standards.
I
simply wanted to try and nurse the lawn through. 2-3 loads of washing
machine water a week was not enough to keep the lawn green but it did
mitigate some of the effects of the long drought. We have heaps of rain
in
winter so salts in the soil will be washed through by constant rainfall.
Since mid april we have had roughly 3-4 inchs I guess. That is enought
to
kick start growth and rains will continue through the winter. As a stop
gap
measure it worked okish. year round however the salts in the washing
powder
would worry me.
Now, if someone wants to answer my Sydney query:
Does nayone living in Syndey know of any community/permaculture/organic
gardens within the sydney city?
A woman from NZ is over in your city sometime shortly and is interested
in
visiting such gardens to see how it is done.
Any contacts or websites is appreciated
rob
--

- Billy
"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being
is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the
moment of conception until death."  - Rachel Carson



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um, yeah maybe. Might be that post. Do you have its name? Somewhere along
the way I put some pictures on the net and added a link to a post. The
photos showed my fabulous $10 home made lawn watering system. Maybe it is
still around.

Though don't think I actually know where I have posted it, but am pretending
not to simply because Charlie gave me some duff advice about making cider. I
honestly do not know where the post is.

rob

 

and you burned the pics?

The thread was called "Grey laundry water for garden watering?".

You'll have to excuse Charlie, he's still a Joey (Oops, I'm not in Oz
any more). He hasn't even turned 60 yet.

What happened? Last I remember, you had a white film growin' on the
surface of the cider, which you were going to remove, and then add some
more SO2. If I take take your meaning, it was down the gurler. What
happened?

Yeast, sugar, and oxygen are an unstable mix. My advice, if you want
advice, is to sterilize all clean equipment with chlorinated water (just
so you can smell it in the water) for twenty minutes, rinse clean. There
is no way to guestimate SO2 levels. You either need to get a set-up for
the Ripper method for free SO2 or keep cider in the fridge (4C). A small
cylinder of argon would be helpful also, or they have this gas in a can
that your supposed to squirt into partial bottles of wine to drive off
the O2 (waste of money for this purpose, if you ask me).

So it's mid fall for you. How was gardening this year? Rain?
Where are you? North Island or South Island?

All the best,
--

- Billy
"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being
is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the
moment of conception until death."  - Rachel Carson



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