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ORIGINAL: YourhandMyAss

WEll a lot of the gardening sites, that are all about green gardening says that nutrients from the boilded food will leach into the water an be nice for the plants, but I agree either way it's water.

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ORIGINAL: avrohom

As an experienced organic gardener (whose egg producers were raised rather wild and free) and as a retired Naturopathic Physician I can tell you that the water from boiled foods definately contains minerals (and gasses)... most of the vitamins have been killed, all of the enzymes are dead, but the minerals are very much alive and potent.  for example, when boiling unpeeled (but well-washed) potatoes if one uses a good deal of extra water and boils them a bit longer than one might otherwise, one can then eat the potatoes and save the potato water in the fridge where it will lasts for 3 or maybe even 4 days before it goes bad.  and this water will contain enough magnesium and potassium to counteract the negative side effects of using diuretics (prescription or herbal) and most important of all WILL DISSOLVE KIDNEY AND GALLSTONES so that you can pass the stones easily with no pain!!  I have used this with many dozens of my "clients" and students with no side effects and no failures!  oh, excuse me, I do remember one elderly lady who waited far too long to come to me while she took every darn medication the allopaths could think to give her.  she died of heart failure before the potato water could completely dissolve her kidney stones.  and she was taking so much morphine for the other pains that nobody knew if the potato water was helping with the kidney stone pains.  oh well.  that was sad, but a highly unusual case.

anyway, back to watering plants - I have gardened in pots under lights (especially herbs for culinary and medicinal purposes, tho a few peppers and tomatoes and garlic plants as well) and in flat land and in double dug raised beds.  in all 3 environments I do believe that I saw the difference when I gave my green and growing babies our gray water... in fact, sometimes the water would be so full of nitrogen that the plants would shoot up with greengrowth and I'd find the budding and fruiting periods would be late in coming or would not be as productive as they ought to have been.  and again I speak of herbs as well as vegetables. 

my fav way of using this gray water was to pour it into 35-50 gallon drums along with (depending upon the growing season's needs at the time) bone meal or fish emulsion or etc... and use this as a nutrient-feeder to my plants.  oh by the way eggshells are great to bury an inch or so beyond the roots of your plants during the season of bud formation and fruiting.  while fish heads should only be used in the ground while the seeds have just begun to srout. 

so see, there can be side effects too.

amazing isn't it?

avrohom

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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

coffee grounds, apple cores,  egg shells get tossed in my yard.  it is better then the town mulch which has plastic in it from bags.

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

. Is this about enhancing the health of your houseplants or is it about what to do with water that has been used for cooking ?


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ORIGINAL: YourhandMyAss

I heard somewhere that the water would have a little bit of nutriants from what was boiled and would be good for your plants. We usualy just dump the water out there by wasting water that could be used on our plants.

Has any one ever had any negative effects on the plants? Other than just not wasting water by using double the a mount, does it actually do anything for the plants?