Collecting Waste Water Will SAVE Your Garden This Year…
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- Gray water is some thing that can be used in your garden for your plants when You are underwater restrictions.  turns out that waste water can in some cases actually increase your yield as well.
When there are water restrictions, your garden is not allowed to be watered in many cases. One of the ways to turn this around via white waste water. If you start collecting water now, you will be better off later this summer.
your water demands for plants at the moment are not very high but with rain barrels and collecting gray waste water, you increase the likelihood of success. 
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Ashley has had a passion for plants since she was a small child. In the long summers as a child, she would garden alongside her grandmother and it was then that she realized her love for greenery. With years of great studying, Ashley had begun her post-secondary education at the University of Saskatchewan.
At first, her second love, animals, was the career path she chose but while doing her undergrad she realized that her education would take her elsewhere. And with that, four years later she graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a bachelor’s degree in science and a major in Soil Science.
Some of Ashley’s interests are TH-cam, in which she posts informative videos about plants and gardening. The focus of Ashley’s TH-cam channel is to bring science to gardening in a way that is informative but also helpful to others learning to garden. She also talks about the importance of having your own garden and the joys of gardening indoors. Ashley continues to study plants in her free time and hopes to expand her TH-cam channel as well as her reach to up-and-coming gardeners.
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GIC Crew, as a gardener the idea that we can run out of water is not fun, Calgary’s water issue this time seems like it was a water main break. But with a potential drought on the horizon storing up water sounds like an awesome idea 😅
Here is that drain spout thingy geni.us/HYP4SqR
I dug a small pond this spring. Put a liner in it. Right now holds about 3000 gallons. But then had to add a pump to keep it moving and a sand filter. Working on making a fountain feature that also incorporates sand filter. Clay filter too slow. 😂 Where I'm at that means some solar panels for power too and a battery if I will need it on cloudy day. It comes with its own challenges.
A consideration in using the drain spout thingy is that asphalt shingles are the most common on roofs in the US. That is the one place where you do not want to collect rain water for health reasons. It's unfortunate because that is the best way to collect the most rain. 😢
Just came here to comment the ban is due to a water main break and saw this 😂 But yeah, drought is gonna be a regular occurrence, especially for those of us who depend on snow melt. It’s always a good idea to conserve water!
Chlorine etc video sounds good and geeky :)
Thank you so much for posting this! As a resident of Calgary I can only shake my head in bafflement that there is a zero use for gardens while indoors is on the honour system. I would cheerfully not do laundry, cleaning, and limit showers but plants will die with no water. We immediately started keeping bowls by each sink and plugged the shower for hauling outside and your scientific analysis is a great help. I have to wonder why the City of Calgary is not reminding its citizens of these facts.
Calgary also here, I am under a boil order so its even more taxing. I went to my uncles farm for a shower and took some water home for my flowers (just a little) since he is on well water. Hopefully this is over soon without too many more restrictions after the pipe is fixed. Peace
So a few years ago, the wife demanded I get a water softener system installed. I didn't give it a second thought, and continued using tap water on the garden, only to see it steadily fade away and die. I didn't make the connection until it was too late! It's been three years since I switched to captured rain water, water from the dehumidifier (for indoor herbs) and even water from the river a kilometer away. The garden has slowly made a comeback, and I've learned a very valuable lesson.
Thanks for the video, Ashley!! ❤❤
Have you tried the gypsum trick?
@@GardeningInCanada Not yet! I've tilled and amended with goat manure and compost, and my homemade leaf mold. She's coming back! Still can't grow brassicas to save my life, though. LOL!
I remember having a water softener when I was a teenager. It had a switch so we could turn it on and off. When Dad was watering the garden he would turn it off. Sometimes he would forget to turn it back on before someone took a shower. There’d be a yell from the bathroom to turn it back on. Our well water smelled bad if it wasn’t softened.
@@amyschmelzer6445 I guess they have their place, but I made the mistake of not having a shutoff or diverter so I could have untreated water outdoors. Oh, well! Using alternatives now. Best wishes to you!!
Here in Calgary, saving waste water from where I can, into buckets to reuse in my pots. We're not even going to get any rain to help the plants....hope people learn that water is not to be wasted.
Good advice to prepare for water shortages, but Calgary's issue is because of a huge water break that has basically taken their biggest treated water system almost completely off-line. So, it's not as much a source issue as it is a distribution issue. Any city would be susceptible to these unexpected vulnerabilities, so, yes, know what you can reuse!
I really give you credit for being so geeky Ashley; you take such scientific info & translate it so we all can understand it. Thanks for sharing!
Rain Barrels are easy to use and install. Many organizations raise funds through the sale of them. I just wish I could figure out how to install one on my gazebo, which is closer to my garden.
I live in Qc I have 2 homemade greenhouse
I put 4 bucket 20L in each greenhouse when the outside barrel is full I take the overflow water and fill all the buckets
PLUS I put in the ground some pot clay flower I use it like a Oyas I fill it to with the overflow rain water
When I have a Big rain and when every 5 rain barrels, 8 buckets and Oya is full
I have 1300 L of rain water 💧……for free !!!
Please please please do a video on your gravity fed system. I’ve been debating putting one of those in for a couple years…
K I definitely will!
I want more on this gravity feed water you speak of. Please. ❤😊
👍 Thanks for helping to remove the stigma boulder to recycling "waste" water.
You should absolutely do a video on tap water and chlorine in the water. All the plant people talk about it and I don’t think it’s that important but could be wrong
Chlorine doesn’t stay in water for long. If you worry about it, let the water sit for 24 hours before using it in the garden. Some municipalities use chloramine. That’s more stable and will persist. Personally I don’t think chlorine is a big deal, either.
I tried using collected rain water, collected from my tar shingle roof and my plants suffered greatly. SO I cut the barrels in half to use them as planters. That water off a tar shingle roof is death.
Here in Southern Ontario we have had so much rain that my garden is flooded right now.
Ashley, don't forget to mention in our human waste, we also shed bacteria, viruses, and in some cases helminths (parasites), depending on our state of health... 😮
I live near the great lakes in Ontario. I find it difficult to believe that Calgary's lack of treated water will affect us. I'm on a well.
Not that end it won’t. Calgary’s water issue this round was apparently a massive water main break
I run a food security program and design food growing systems.
When asked about runoff from the roof, I cite studies showing the presence of pathogens like salmonella from birds.
Also, roofing material is made from hydrocarbons and immediately began to degrade and will runoff into the water as well.
I tend to discourage the use of rainwater into the garden as the plants will uptake chemicals and the soil may be contaminated from salmonella.
Despite this, great information and very needed!
We had a massive water main break this week, The snowpack has not been great this year but this spring has been cool and wet so it is mostly in the mountain still.
It’s flipping cold here to 😢 it must be a prairie issue.
I am New Westminster. It has been cool here until recently.
Thanks for this great information! I’m an hour from the Rockies, north of Calgary & there definitely is a shortage of rain & snow collection this year. Blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦
Good luck❤️
Us Kentucky here, no restriction yet but, I’ve been waiting 5 days for rain and there is zero in my 10 day forecast. And I’ve needed a bed watered in and I have to hand water. It’s a 4x14 bed. I’m out of rain water, I’ve been filling buckets.
I hope I can buy a rain barrel soon. My biggest challenge right now is watering all my garden areas. They’re spread out around my yard and I have a lot of grow bags that dry out quickly and it’s getting so hard lugging 2 liters full of water and gallon jugs around every day.
I can’t harvest water from our roof because we have shingles, but we have well water so I’m also always afraid of it running dry. I want to at least use gray water from our bathroom sink to flush the toilet and start there.
What’s the issue with rainwater off of a shingle roof?
And Manitoba is flooding.
We only water by rain barrel due to logistics on our property. They were empty last week after I was done putting in new gardens. It rained loads here in Ontario so we're full up again phew. Happy & relieved that we don't rely on the govt to get us water.
My old mom said that during the war (in Europe) they would wash their dishes without soap and feed that nutrient rich water to the chickens.
some "science" is new age science 😂
Yes, give us more information about tap water.
Hi Ashley, please do a video on tap water...ours is chlorinated, I heard the microbes dont like it but the come back from it. Is that true? It would be great to hear you on this topic. Thanks
i'd like a video on it as well, i also have chloramine in my water.
Yea houseplants hate American tap water so I use rainwater. My garden plants are more resilient but the ph gets thrown off at times.
I use rainwater as much as possible. Never experienced issues with city water restrictions. I live in the Great Lakes area in Ontario. Tons of water here.
If you guys run out RIP world lol
Hello Ashley listening cause it matters going forward. What about the lady that took river water to water their plant? (News did mention that?) I guess the use of mulch to reduce drying of the soil would help. I use rain water here mostly.
Okanagan here...B.C. In the country and have a shallow well fed from a swampy area beside a mountain. During the brutal drought conditions last year my well started developing a green mildew like thing at the bottom of the well. I ' shocked ' it and after a while it became clear again. That was a little off topic BUT, I found that ' triaging ' what I really needed helped...everything else turned brown.
Yes please post the video about our tap water. Very curious.
As far as water softeners go, if you have one make sure to test your water's hardness. You can do this easily with a water hardness test kit. It's usually the case that water softening systems are only connected to the water line which feeds the water heater so that only HOT water has actually been softened. Cold water remains unaffected by the water softener, so it should just be treated as hard water when used for watering plants
Interesting. I have a water softener, but my fish tank water always tests as very hard. I actually use the water from my RO filter, but still it shows as hard. Maybe it’s because that’s unseated water?
@@margaretmarshall3645 If the water straight from your RO filter tests hard then you may need to change the membrane. Unless your RO filter includes a remineralization step (some of the units meant for drinking water do this as it improves the taste). Otherwise your water may be going into the aquarium soft and getting remineralized by the substrate. Do you have any hard-shelled invertebrates (shrimp, crabs, snails)? They tend not to do well in soft water long term as the water will leach the minerals straight out of their shells/exoskeletons
I wash fruits and vegies in a salad spinner bowl. I pour that water my flowers with it. I also use salt-free water from washing rice, cooked pasta and steamed veggies when it cools down. I don't use any gray water in my veggie garden.
Good luck you guys!!! I’m thinking of you ❤❤❤❤ and sending love
I'm Aussie, so I know about running out of water.. but like, isn't Canadia full of massive fresh water lakes?
Yea on one side the other side is closer to a desert in some cases 😅
It’s a huge country. We have lakes, mountains, tundras, and semi-arid areas. Some regions get their water from mountain snow melt, so you can imagine how global warming will affect us😢
are you familiar with the work of Dane Wiggington? (he's on yt) the rainwater is polluted due to weather engineering/spraying operations.
Oh no seriously? That’s insane
So then what is the solution now? No one can afford to use tap water on their vegetable gardens now...
@@DebRoo11 Test the pH. The 'additives' that centers around the scare tends to drive pH up into the 8's. Rainwater should normally be in the 5's or 6's (no acid rain). Your unlikely to encounter acid rain these days. That simple test should be enough.
@@teac117 okay will definitely look into that. The world really is different than when I was a kid.
If the PH is high, then is there anything I can do to be able to use it safely?
@@DebRoo11 TBH, you can use it just fine. One of the impetus for cloud seeding in the US is for snowfall (so you're not gardening). If they're doing it in the summer where you're at, then it's very likely for Ag use.
Ontario is having a very rainy time no drought here
Lots of rain so far but that can change quickly
"Hike these babies up". 😂😂
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Waiting for the day when influencers start suggesting a handful of CSG drywall mix with your tomatoes.... it'll all be because of you!
@elizknight8262 Usually, glue. So not recommended, but it would be funny.
Lol omg don’t give them ideas
I’m on well water but I haven’t got an outside tap that hasn’t got water going through the softener. The water is also ice cold once I get into watering so I’m going to use rain water on my peppers this year (when it stops raining) my squash is so unhappy and wet‼️
can u please make a video on Fish Tank Water conditioners? the claim to make minerals and hard water , safe to use for fish. Maybe they have benefits for soil and plant growth?
Yes please to Tap water video.
water main break
Any advice for using sump pump water? I’m afraid it will be too alkaline.
Good idea I never thought of that with my own system.
Missed a bit when the sun was shining on your halo and then again when you 'hike it up'😁
This is a great topic to have covered! Question: what are your thoughts on using dehumidifier water???
I appreciate you leaving that part in. I feel videos that edit out all the little things that we do makes the videos more bland. Keep being you and rock on 🤘🏻
Calgreeeeeee
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Would love to know how chloramines and chloride are affected by the addition of Vitamin C and Humic Acid as I’ve heard claims of both helping. Would also be interested in knowing the impacts of pH on these treatments if any. Enjoy these longer form content!
Interesting video Ma'am! I about spit out my coffee though at the editing Ashley "adjustment"! LOL. Thanks for diving into this as there is definitely numerous opinions on its use. I am so happy I have my dugout as it has saved me more often than not. Good video!
I do!!! I want to know about tap water. I have a well now but im still interested lol
thanks for the information love your channel always interesting information to think about thanks
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You are so welcome
Great video, Ashley! We are about to install rain barrels to our garage gutters- should we be worried about the chemicals from shingles (new) or bird poop contaminating it? Also, it has the downspout thingy attached as well.
Hi! I have a couple of questions: any concerns about saving/harvesting snow (obviously - when melted - it’s water). I live in Calgary and this past winter I shovelled snow into rain barrels. I used the water for trees, shrubs and flowers. The snow collected was from the backyard, no salt used and no dogs. I’m assuming that there should be no issues.
Other question: what about a water filter on the garden hose. I have in the past used an RV water filter on my garden hose when I’ve run out of rain water. Wondering if it really does make a difference on the garden when using city water.
Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge! So super helpful!! 😊
I’m in southern bc, we’ve had so much rain…. But they’re still talking like we’re in a drought?
It’s the reserves in the soil that’s the issue. The soil is so depleted once that gets bumped up it will be better.
SOIL VIDEO IDEA :) I'm struggling in my greenhouse again as each planting season all the soil in my pots has become hydrophobic. How to I fix it and how should one prep their containers of soil, that stay in the greenhouse all year, for winter so it's still ok come spring/summer? I covered them with straw but with mega deep snow I can't get into the greenhouse to do anything to help things all winter. Thanks so much.
🙂 thank you. Have a great day!
Would it be cool to use borax mixed with honey or whatever as ant killer in the garden? I got ants in my lettuce
I run my sump pump hose into a 100 gal horse trough, only 2nd year out of 5 enough rain to actually collect some.
I have been using a Boogie Blue filter on my garden hose, is it worth it? I know it can't hurt.
Stay Well!!!
I would love to see a tap water video
How does one "collect" grey water? My sister lives in Arizona and they had a bathtub to water barrel collection system which just ran through their wall. Obviously doesn't work so much in our cold climate. But I am curious as to how one would divert the water from the normal route to the sewers system?
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Hi Ashley, Rain water question for you. We have a 1000L caged water tote to collect rain water in. In 2022 we had our roof replaced after a hail storm. My partner is concerned that products/debris from the roofing materials could be toxic if used in our veggie garden. Do you have any research that proves this either way? Thanks in advance!
Gravity fed watering I need this
When you're talking about cooking water fermenting Wouldnt it be the same as jdam then??
I have a sister in Calgary....
It's illegal to gather rainwater in Colorado 😢
Really, why?
What about reverse osmosis? Is that better than softened water?
What happens if you frequently flood a sandy soil depression with hard water?
The question I have about pasta water -- I've heard to use this on plants before, but I assume that this is water that was NOT salted when cooking the pasta, right? Or, is it ok to use salted pasta water as long as it is not the only type of water the plant receives? It just seems like salt would be a bad idea all around.
It would be fine. The sodium and combo that with the fact that you are watering it down. It wouldn’t be enough
Isn’t having to hiking them babies up annoying, personally I hate it 😂😂😂
Hmmm...live on Vancouver Island, BC. Average soil pH 4.5 to 5.5. Tap water added to baking soda bubbles.
Some of the notes re alkaline results sound appealing for plants that need that...?
Also...because of limited opportunities in a very small yard to safely compost or get rid of weeds I have started a low-tech "weed and feed" system using a garbage can filled with weeds, a little soil and the occasional addition of urine (gasp). Seems like fresh organic grey water may benefit this..?
Just a note: veggies seem to thrive when watered with a diluted portion of this; solves the problem of what to do with weeds; and once the weeds are rotting in the mix I strain them off and add them to my compost.
Does adding the fresh ' organics' water make sense?
What a coincidence, today I measured the water hardness values from my pondwater because we had more than twice the average amount of rain during the month of May, which lowers the water hardness below ideal values. And the plants are growing and depleting the minerals in the water as well. And the values were waaaayyyy too low, which causes a negative snowball effect of issues in a pond. For a plastic pond or a pond with a pond liner, or any pond that is not natural and that doesn't have a natural source of minerals too much rainwater or snow is not good. And it is recommended to add extra pond specific clay minerals on a regular bases throughout the year. It also helps to prevent algae growth and drastic PH fluctuations.
Hi Ashley, wondering if pasta water or water used to cook vegetables is problematic since you usually will have salted the water?
In an open soil system I wouldn’t stress over that .
Few water savings things I do. If I steam vegetables, I save the water, refrigerate (or use right away) for rice, pasta, oatmeal etc. I’m from California (in an area off the state’s water project). We have a motto, if it’s yellow let it mellow and brown, flush it down 😊 I also save the cold water while I am waiting for hot water, takes about 2 gallons for my tankless hot water heater to get hot water.
I have an RODI unit for my reef tank, could I use the waste water from that unit?
Didn’t Idaho just destroy farmers by stopping the water flow for 500,000 acres or something like that. I only read the headline but it’s gettin crazy
Ya, it's a water rights thing. The annoying part is, they've still got plenty of water, but the senior water right holder needs their aquifer topped up, which means anyone junior to them gets a complete hold. The company that holds the rights supplies 260k acres, so they're withholding from 500k of farmland which makes the optics really bad.
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Good looking video ! Free of tattoos ! Thank you Jesus.
Use more chemicals in agriculture/gardening to boost the amount of clean water on Earth 😂
Hopefully the word science did not give you the heebie-jeebies. Lol. Could you give a talk on your science opinion on JADM ... It breaks my brain after trying to keep oxygen in that this is anaerobic. Cheers. Ann 🪱😀👍🏼