I used the rinse water from several batches of dishes and handwashing (no soap used, so none to picture). I use soap, but don't put that water on the garden even though it's greywater safe--lots of greywater-safe soaps have salt in them, which can cause trouble in the soil over time.
Filled a 20L (5 gallon) bucket with water and distributed it to the watermelons, scarlet runner beans, and the ollas in the bed of potatoes grown from seed.
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Collecting greywater
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Pouring greywater into watering can
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Watering some plants
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Watering seed-grown potatoes
He whai take kore noa anō te kupu mēnā mā nga mahi a te tangata ia e kōrero / His words are nothing if his works say otherwise
Not much soap was used. Lots of cold water before hot, so this is an everyday chore to save and use this water for the growies. I ran out of my liquid soap, but this bar soap is basically made in the same fashion using Jadam's method. 900cc coconut oil, 125g sodium hydroxide, 125cc water, few drops of tea tree essential oil were ingredients used...honor system? It's worth a shot. This bb is definitely essential.
With the exception to the amount of drops of essential oil I put in, I've added additional photos to further specify that I know the exact ingredients and that I am equipped with the know how to make this. Additionally, this soap was ready to cut in only 8hours. It'll heat up a bit before it cools. In fact, it was still a little warm when I cut the first one. I used the spatula, included in the pictures, to cut and pry the soap away from walls of the soap form. That spatula may be my new cast Iron Skillet spatula if I can't find a better. Anyhow, the bar of soap has naoh, whereas, the yellow stuff is the liquid version(used canola oil) using potash.
Estimated 10 drops of Tee Tree oil & 1 g ground Marijuana flower
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Ashley Cottonwood flagged this submission as an edge case BB. BBV price: 0 Note: Did you make the soap? Can you verify how you know the ingredients in the soap bar please.
I collected water after the "wash an oily dish without soap" and "deep clean a chair" badge bits. The water went into a 5-gallon Lowes bucket. I washed several more dishes without soap so the bulk of that water did come from a dish pan.
The collected water went to a pecan tree that we planted a few months ago.
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“Praise be to you, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, and who produces various fruit with colored flowers and herbs” St. Francis of Assisi
There are a number of meals for which I manage KP/dishwashing duties at Wheaton Labs. Adding the grey-water to growies is a standard practice round here.
This is a photo of the dishpan, full of used wash water:
This is a photo of the grey-water being added to a gigantic rhubarb plant nearby. Combined with the second dishpan, this should be in excess of 3 gallons.
Here's a photo of the dish soap we use:
Here's a link to the Bio-Pac website where more information about the soap contents is available:
I washed a whole heap of dishes, using Oasis, biocompatible soap. Link: https://www.bio-pac.com/oasis-biocompatible-cleaners/ Here is a pic of the dirty dishwater, about 3 gallons. i dumped both sinks into this grey tub and emptied it onto a choke cherry tree in my yard. Yay, growies!
Someone flagged this submission as not complete. BBV price: 1 Note: No description of soap used and please document more exactly than "I think I have 3 gallons".
A picture of used dish pan water, the soap used to wash the dishes (link below), and one right before water one of the apple trees.
A bit under four gallons of water fit inside the kitty litter container.