Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 19:02:14 +0100 From: Clarke Brunt <clarke@brunt.demon.co.uk> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg459$foo@default> Subject: Re: Water
On 31 Jan 97 at 2:37, j.m.haddon wrote:
> I Have just used up my supply of rain water as we have had no
> rain for a month. In th north west of the UK, where I now live, you can
> expect it to rain every other day. What should I water my plants
> with now ?
I'm in the South-East of England (Cambridge), and indeed it's been a
very dry January, but my rain-water butt (or 'barrel', if 'butt'
means something else wherever you come from :-) is still full. I can
only think that either you have lots of plants, or you didn't collect
much water. I hardly use water on the CP in Winter, as they don't dry
out, but this would depend on where you are keeping them.
The alternatives of buying water, or using some sort of contraption
(RO unit) to 'make' pure water sound expensive to me. I just wouldn't
bother growing the plants if I needed these, and I'd concentrate even
more on my cacti and succulents. The one time my rainwater supply ran
out (Summer 1995), I used the local tap water, boiled then cooled to
precipitate out Calcium carbonate, but it was only a few weeks before
it rained again.
-- Clarke Brunt (clarke@brunt.demon.co.uk)
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