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A very random question that just came into my mind - if you use the water that you boiled veg in to water your veg plants with, will it be good/bad/indifferent?! I almost feel stupid for asking!!

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  • peter_the_piper
    peter_the_piper Posts: 30,269 Forumite
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    Get a steamer and you won't have to worry.:rotfl:
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • wellused
    wellused Posts: 1,678 Forumite
    Not if you salt the veg.
  • DaftyDuck
    DaftyDuck Posts: 4,609 Forumite
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    If you don't salt the veg, it's excellent... mind you, it does need to cool first! :p

    Last house I had, I plumbed in a double kitchen sink, so the two halves were draining individually. RHS went drainwards for all the washing up water, muck & yuck. LHS went straight out to a waterbutt. Veg peeling water, boiled veg water, coffee and tea, that all went thataway, and the garden looked great!
  • Delta_1984
    Delta_1984 Posts: 143 Forumite
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    DaftyDuck, that is genius - unless you ever get it wrong. I never salt veg so I'll try it out!
  • DaftyDuck
    DaftyDuck Posts: 4,609 Forumite
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    Delta_1984 wrote: »
    DaftyDuck, that is genius - unless you ever get it wrong. I never salt veg so I'll try it out!

    But I never get anything rwong!
    ;)
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    It's nothing short of criminal, feeding the boiled remains of plants to other plants. Whatever next? Animal droppings? :(

    Like Prince Charles, I speak to my plants, and they tell me they'd much rather have a nice inert pile of Growmore any day of the week than the cooked remains of Aunt Cabbage or Uncle Carrot. :p

    I'm stopping short of Godwin's Law, but what you are all suggesting here isn't far off what that fiend, Bob Flowerdew, has been doing behind those old tyres and redundant freezers all these years. It makes me ill to think of it! :eek::eek::eek:

    Vegetable rights and Peace! :D
  • testertrev
    testertrev Posts: 88 Forumite
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    Surely you use it for the gravy? :j
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