Why waste precious greywater on plants that don’t really need it? 💧
Smart greywater gardening means matching thirsty plants with your household’s water output! Citrus trees and tropical beauties like bananas absolutely love that slightly soapy kitchen water.
Perfect greywater candidates:
Citrus trees (they’re water-hungry fruit machines!)
Tropical plants that crave consistent moisture
Riparian natives like willows if your soil drains well
Here’s the cool part: your greywater system evolves with your family – more kids means more water for expanding your edible oasis!
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What are your like top I’d say three plants for people’s yards. Let’s just say edibles that would be good for gray water. Uh definitely citrus trees. Does that count as one plant? Yeah, that’s a broad range, but citrus. I like that. Um bananas. Okay. Anything tropical like that. How about natives? So natives are a little bit more sensitive to the buildup of salts in the soil. So having a really good soap, having healthy soil, well- draining soil means you can probably do natives. But I would go towards a riparian zone native. Okay. Um, so kind of looking into what willows, sycamores, like moisture and Yeah. And maybe grasses, things like that. But the water is always going subsurface. It’s going under a layer of mulch into a, you know, kind of a catchment basin. That’s really just a dugout hole in the soil. You’re not um you’re not like sheet flowing this over um over anything. So, anything that can handle that kind of water. Um that’s good. Yeah. Yeah. And also I think of natives is as they keep going they’re more drought tolerant. So a lot of times we don’t need to have all that water we’re getting from our house going to those natives. So maybe using that water a little bit on the smarter side of like you said tropicals your fruit trees. Can I just add one thing? Yeah please. So um what you mentioned that natives don’t need that much water but one beautiful thing about really understanding how you’re using your water um in your house is that um you’re evolving and your landscape is evolving. So, you know, first it was you and your wife, so you weren’t producing much, you know, so maybe you’re getting some plants. Then you have your kids and now you can add more plants to the mix, but those plants maybe they’re native, so they need a lot of water now and then in the next few years or when your kids are older, you know, and out of the house, then you don’t you’re not producing as much water and so the the plants are established. That’s a good one. I like thinking ahead and figuring out how this is all going to kind of play out.
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