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LAST month, a marketing campaign by the Royal Horticultural Society urged UK gardeners to be extra environmentally pleasant. One piece of recommendation was to get a water butt and use rainwater for watering as a substitute of the mains.
You may suppose there’s loads of water to go round in a wet nation just like the UK, however it’s a waste of vitality to present vegetation faucet water, which has been intensively handled so it’s match to drink. Rainwater is completely ok for many vegetation and will even be higher, as faucet water accommodates dissolved magnesium and calcium, which …
