Guess I should have known it was just a matter of time. And we don't even get odd/even days to water. Hopefully the good Lord will look down on us and see the terrible mess we are in. And just let it rain, rain, rain ...... My shrubs and daylilies are what I am most concerned about. Maybe I can get out real early in the morning or very late at night and water a little. But then again, if the city wants to get really ugly about it, they can check water bills!!
Oh no, KG... That's no good. Maybe you can move the pots with the daylillies into a shadier area... You all need to do a rain dance in Texas. How about this -- If you take one less bath a week (we won't tell), you could water a little and your water bill wouldn't change...
Actually, Gaylyn, she isn't far from right. Put a bucket in the tub and catch the shower water. You can switch to a shampoo and bathsoap that is organic then you can use the 'graywater' to water your plants. Also, using an organic dishwashing detergent or dishsoap if you hand wash you will be able to use that water too. There is a really good dishsoap and laundry soap called Earth at the grocery store that you can use safely on plants and does the washing just as good as the chemical loaded soaps.
You could try using any 'grey water' you have for your plants and that way there's no need to feel guilty about using it in the garden. It would actually be recycling as it will have been used once before. i.e. Water that has used in the home for laundry, bathing or dish washing and the like.
Toni and Eileen that's a great idea. The only thing...it would have to be a small bucket. I wouldn't be able to lift one of any size filled with water, because of my back (surgeries). I'll just have to sneak around a bit. Maybe we will get some rain soon.
Last year I kept a good sized bucket in the bathtub and used a half-gallon Rubbermaid pitcher to carry water from it to the plants out back and in pots on the front porch. You could also keep another bucket in the yard to empty the pitchers of water into. Might be some extra bother but at least you could water the plants. My trouble with three people and one bathroom was getting the bucket emptied between the showers so there would be as little water as possible going down the drain.
No rain here in northern Wisconsin either. Farmers are loosing their bean crops, and our lakes are going down, down, down(I can watch our shoreline recede each day). We had a snowy winter and a wet spring, but then it stopped. At least here in the "Great Lakes" area, we don't get watering bans imposed on us, but I'm sure getting sick of watering! I'll keep my fingers crossed for both of us.
I almost forgot that you can also use water that was used to boil or steam veggies. Let it cool before watering with it.
