You can buy laundry discs that do the same thing as detergent which are both surfactants (allows the water to penetrate the clothes which is what actually does the washing) According to my local department of health, the washerwater has actually got bacteria and so forth in it after washing. You could put it through a sand filter if you wanted which takes care of that. You could also water under the ground with it, that is okay in our County. You could also put it in your toilet tank to flush with if you wanted to.

In a container that small, full sun can cause the water to heat up enough to cook the roots. They do need sun to bloom, though. Try for a spot that gets sun only 2-3 hours in the afternoon. Not all cat litter will work, it has to be identified as calcined clay. You can get a 50 lb. bag of it from any John Deere Landscape store (not tractor store). It was only $12 last time I got a bag, called Turface MVP. Moving water should help prevent mosquitoes, but pet shops have "feeder" goldfish for less than 25 cents apiece.

Contact your county's Extension Service office to obtain reliable info for your region and your conditions. You can locate that office with this interactive map: http://npic.orst.edu/pest/countyext.htm

Hello to all, and are there any mason's on the boards? It's 104 here in Houston today, so I was slow/deep watering some roses and hibiscus, when I noted water going into the pool via a grout leak ifrom behind some travertine. There are three pic's enclosed. First one is a top view of where the water is coming from. It's not overflowing, but coming through the bottom of the travertine. The second pic shows that the water is coming from behind the travertine and thru the 90 joints on the left and right. The third pic shows the water going into the pool... As you can see in pic one, there is a concrete boarder that goes around the travertine, then I have rocks that if we get a 3-6" rain, this keeps the mulch from coming over the top...I've not had any water to date overflow into pool in this area, but obviously the water is penetrating from behind, going down and coming thru the grout. Looking for approaches and ideas on what I can do to fix this? If you need anything else or more pic's. pls let me know. Thank you for your help, tstex