"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
Judith Browning wrote:
edit to wonder about word usage......I've always called what I think we're talking about a 'dish rag' and it's counterpart in the shower a 'wash rag'
To that end, I've been using handwoven dishcloths.
They last for ages, have a lovely texture for cleaning dishes, and have a low ecological impact. My favourites are made from cotton or linen, one can even get organic cotton yarn for this (most, if not all, linen for this kind of thing is grown organic style). These last ages longer than commercial dish rags.
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
They supposedly don't do well colder than zone 7, so probably won't work for you unless maybe started indoors.
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
Judith Browning wrote:
They supposedly don't do well colder than zone 7, so probably won't work for you unless maybe started indoors.
They grow well here for some folks. My son grew a bumper crop just a bit farther south than us and a friend here locally grows a short sponge version that does very well..they were part of her market crop. I always forget to start them early indoors so mine usually don't mature...great viney plant and another one that deer and bunnies don't seem to like so can grow on the garden fence.
they also shed little bits of themselves.
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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R Ranson wrote:One thing that germs love is a moist environment. If your dishcloth can dry all the way, at least once a day, then it's darn near impossible for germs to grow in there. That's one of the reasons why I don't like sponges.
I'm super rough with my stainless with metal scrubbers
Tracy Wandling wrote:I am looking for a long-lived dish cloth. My significant other is a fan of sponges with a scrubby on the back. I don't like them. They don't last, and as the sponge and scrubby fall apart, little bits fall off. Pretty sure that's not good for the septic, not to mention our messed up plumbing. I am happy to use a regular old dish cloth, but the man has a thing about them - too germy or something, I don't know.
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