Richard Grimes

Hello Denny
I have heard that one shouldnt use gray water for "soft" food that you are going to eat. Gray water is best used on trees that fruit as in your idea. But i guess if you are filtering and treating the water along the way it should be OK. Do you know what is going into the water all the time? like bleaches and soap etc?
Are you planning on including the sawdust toilet in the open air drain? If yes, wont that be black water you are using?
Currently I have a buried cess pit that has various stages to it and naturally seeps away to the surounding downhill trees - i assume this as the trees near it do the best without any help from me.
Good luck with plans.

Thanks Rebecca and John for your feedback.

Hello Tiffaney
Thanks for your reply!
I spent a year in Namibia (1989) what a coincidence! Lovely wild place.
I would love to hear about the village pump. I think i have the pump part sorted I just need to drive it from the bike.
I may have painted myself into a corner by not using the rear wheel like you have but it may open a new world of solutions too.

Hi Tiffaney and all.
That pedal washer looks awesome!
I am trying the same and have a way to go to stabilise, chain shorten, plumb in and make efficient.
As i dont have a water source near to where i need to keep it i was thinking of putting a drill pump on the fly wheel that i can drive and pump the water in from a rain barrel, and out again to the garden.
My problem is making a drive shaft from the flywheel that i can clamp the drill pump to.

I was thinking of attaching 4 L-brackets back to back (in a X) with a drill bit that will drive the pump.
Has anyone done this? I assume for strength it will need to be welded together and screwed to the wooden flywheel i have.

I would love to hear from anyone with experience of this. My pedal washer attempt

Hope everyone can see the photo.
Thanks
Rich

I have this idea for filtering kitchen water.
This is for a small cottage that I rent out in the summer months so I want to water the garden when there are guest and I cannot be there.
Currently the water is just led to the garden through a flexible pipe.
See the attached drawing (vertical water filter.png)  - i want to use 3 or 4 buckets in a vertical formation to filter the water and clear out the kitchen waste. Food waste  it can build up in the pipe and clog the holes for the plants.

Has anyone got experience of doing this?

So the kitchen water feeds into the top bucket that is half full of bark (i have plenty of that) and earth worms.
holes in the bottom of the bucket will filter the water (food free) into a gravel half filled bucket and then into a bucket with small volcanic rocks/scoria.
These i want to place in a large rubbish bin with the garden pipe leading out the bottom.

My questions how do i stop the worms escaping?
I provide eco friendly washing up liquid so it will be kinder to the worms and trees in the garden.