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Appalachian Mtns.

Also known as city or county water to the house.
Harmful to pumpkins? How?

1/3/2003 12:32:32 AM

Caceres, Spain

If a had any doubt, I would order an analysys.
Don

1/3/2003 2:48:19 AM

Montoursville, PA

Define your term county water, to the house. If it can be ingested by humans it would be OK. If you are getting down to using all the factors you may want to know the PH. Water is a major player in the Patch.

If water PH is way out of line with your desired PH you may need to consider some adjustment. The professional growers of any major agri business venture deal with this. You seldom here it mentioned in hobby gardening.

1/3/2003 8:11:35 AM

Appalachian Mtns.

City water basically, treated thru the local waste-water treatment plant. I've been told that chlorine levels in tap water can be detrimental to AG's, but my research on the Internet sats otherwise.
The water to my house has a pH of 7.2-7.3 with chlorine levels of about 2.2 mg/L.
Any thoughts?

1/3/2003 10:59:54 AM

Montoursville, PA

Southern..... Chlorine will evaporate off or away from the water. If you were to use a tank of some 55 gal storage or more the water would need time to warm up to ambient during which time most if not all chlorine would go away. Your house water at 7.2 -7.3 should be of no concern what so ever if your patch total is 6.5 - 6.8. Most growers try to be above 6.5 to 7.0 in the patch.

If you fill a drinking glass with tap water and let it sit overnight nearly all chlorine is evaproated by morning.

1/3/2003 2:22:20 PM

porterville,california usa

southern ; i used to work at a city waste water treatment plant. the treated water was piped to a farmer to use on his crops. once a week we tested for heavy metal content, and had to keep their levels below a certain amount. i`m not sure what these metals effects on pumpkins are. good or bad. you may want to check with the municipality concerned to see what these levels are in your water. they should have listings readily available to the public.

1/6/2003 1:24:01 AM

Appalachian Mtns.

Thank you guys for the information.
Kyle

1/6/2003 6:48:56 AM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Kyle,

This is sometimes referred to as "Gray water recycling".
I would do a google search using those words. And do get a grey water sample off to the local ag-station for a checkup.

Steve Jepsen

1/7/2003 11:04:02 AM