Originally Posted by Pzazz
Originally Posted by Eastexgal
I live in East Texas in a small town, Quitman. We are having a terrible droth here. Water is high so I'm not watering much if at all. My yard is definitely brown. and crunchy to walk on. I don't want to loose my hedges, azalia bushes, my dogwood tree. But I might if we don't start getting rain.
If you use a biodegradable dish soap, bath soap, etc., carry your used dishwater and bathwater out to water those plants. When I lived with a shallow well, that was the only way I kept some of my plants alive. Good luck!!
Patti
Great tip! That's exactly what my DGM did with her water.
They never forgot the horrible, seven year drought that Texas went through in the '50s but were probably always frugal from living on ranches in the Hill Country. A big bonus that I have heard about is that if you have aphids, throwing soapy dishwater on them is a good treatment (I think it is aphids, but don't quote me). I keep a dishpan in my kitchen sink and every drop of water that is collected during the day from handwashing or rinsing out dog water dishes, etc gets thrown out where needed at the end of the day. I don't wash any dishes in the nasty water, don't worry. By the way, it only takes a trickle of water to wash hands thoroughly--all of the important cleaning is in the soaping up and rubbing them together, and just takes a trickle to rinse. Learned that from DGM, too!