Comments on: Happy Earth Day! Earth day tips? http://www.harvestofdailylife.com/happy-earth-day-earth-day-tips/ Sowing seeds of tomorrow, savoring the fruits of yesterday. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:12:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: kaylee http://www.harvestofdailylife.com/happy-earth-day-earth-day-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-9190 kaylee Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:24:50 +0000 http://www.harvestofdailylife.com/?p=660#comment-9190 Nie post I cant do nothing here LOL ! <em>kaylee's last blog post..<a href='http://kaylee2.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/baseball-game/' rel="nofollow">Baseball game</a></em> Nie post I cant do nothing here LOL !

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]]> By: Talina http://www.harvestofdailylife.com/happy-earth-day-earth-day-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-9189 Talina Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:53:26 +0000 http://www.harvestofdailylife.com/?p=660#comment-9189 Your dream sounds lots like our dream! When we own a house we will permanently rig up a grey water system like what you describe! It is so great for watering plants and you don;t even have to store the water if you don't want to, they have those hoses that are sealed at the very end but are sponge like so the water seeps out through the entire length of the hose watering everything it comes in contact with.. Good stuff! Your dream sounds lots like our dream! When we own a house we will permanently rig up a grey water system like what you describe!

It is so great for watering plants and you don;t even have to store the water if you don’t want to, they have those hoses that are sealed at the very end but are sponge like so the water seeps out through the entire length of the hose watering everything it comes in contact with..

Good stuff!

]]> By: Hyphen Mama http://www.harvestofdailylife.com/happy-earth-day-earth-day-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-9187 Hyphen Mama Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:57:04 +0000 http://www.harvestofdailylife.com/?p=660#comment-9187 We have a HUGE compost bin that has made our garden really awesome. Sometimes it smells kinda funky, but all our compostable stuff goes in there. We recycle EVERY card board container (even food), plastic and paper, all metal. Several years ago we acquired huge 50 (??) gallon drums and I pumped bath water (and shower, too...I just plugged the drain during my shower) and put it into the barrels. Unfortunately, it was a difficult task, since our bathroom is on the 2nd floor and we had to use a pump to get it outside and down to the barrels. My husband was game for only a short time before he decided it wasn't his ball of wax. AND the water smelled HORRID (um, kind of like sewage) after a few days in the barrel. We didn't put chemicals in it to keep bacteria from growing. In my fantasy life, I'll have a house built with cisterns to collect rain water, non-sewage water, laundry water to use outside. And I'll use only solar power in my home. When I was a kid, living outside of town we pumped our laundry water out into the yard. We had the best grass and we never ran a sprinkler. <em>Hyphen Mama's last blog post..<a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MommyNeeds5Minutes/~3/274408654/its-go-time.html' rel="nofollow">It's Go Time</a></em> We have a HUGE compost bin that has made our garden really awesome. Sometimes it smells kinda funky, but all our compostable stuff goes in there. We recycle EVERY card board container (even food), plastic and paper, all metal. Several years ago we acquired huge 50 (??) gallon drums and I pumped bath water (and shower, too…I just plugged the drain during my shower) and put it into the barrels. Unfortunately, it was a difficult task, since our bathroom is on the 2nd floor and we had to use a pump to get it outside and down to the barrels. My husband was game for only a short time before he decided it wasn’t his ball of wax. AND the water smelled HORRID (um, kind of like sewage) after a few days in the barrel. We didn’t put chemicals in it to keep bacteria from growing. In my fantasy life, I’ll have a house built with cisterns to collect rain water, non-sewage water, laundry water to use outside. And I’ll use only solar power in my home.

When I was a kid, living outside of town we pumped our laundry water out into the yard. We had the best grass and we never ran a sprinkler.

Hyphen Mama’s last blog post..It’s Go Time

]]> By: teeni http://www.harvestofdailylife.com/happy-earth-day-earth-day-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-9184 teeni Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:34:21 +0000 http://www.harvestofdailylife.com/?p=660#comment-9184 That is great about the bath water system you two have rigged up! I always loved how over in Asia they use the grey water system and the bathroom sink water then goes into the toilet to be used again. TGH and I use rain water barrels and I'm looking into starting a compost heap for our garden. <em>teeni's last blog post..<a href='http://vtroom.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/teenis-tips-lists/' rel="nofollow">Teeni's Tips - Lists</a></em> That is great about the bath water system you two have rigged up! I always loved how over in Asia they use the grey water system and the bathroom sink water then goes into the toilet to be used again. TGH and I use rain water barrels and I’m looking into starting a compost heap for our garden.

teeni’s last blog post..Teeni’s Tips – Lists

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