Do you use washing up or bath water to water garden?

[Sunshineandrainbow]

If so please give me your tips...

No, we don’t have a bath, but we don’t use sink water. We do have water butts on the shed and summer house to catch rain water, which we do use.

Yes. Not veggies though just flowers. We used to have a pump thing to empty the bath out of the window but lost it in a house move.
Now we potter up and down the stairs with buckets, it’s a bit tedious but is good exercise and keeps the garden alive.

Yes as long as it’s not too manky(we avoid water that’s been used to scrub a roasting tray etc) or meaty. For the sink we pot the basin into a watering can. For the bath we have been known to use a tube to siphon the water out the window

I was reading the back of my bottle of washing up liquid the other day, and it had warnings about it being dangerous to aquatic life. It did make me think twice about using the washing up water in the garden.

No. We have a water butt and when that's empty I use the outside tap and a watering can.

We don't use the bath much to save on water and fuel, and I don't use the hose when there's a shortage.

That's as far as I'm prepared to go

Growing up in South Africa in the 1980s we always seemed to be in perpetual drought and my mum was a keen gardener so my parents always used our bath water to water the garden. Just make sure you don’t hurt your back carrying too much at once. It was easier for my parents as our house like most SA ones were single story so the bathrooms were in the ground floor. Like somebody else said, it might be easier to buy a hose to siphon it out the window? Bath water as far as I know is fine for all sorts of plants whereas dish water has much more soap.

We use this:
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In the recent heatwave when the water butt was empty I used the hand washing water (we have a dishwasher so don’t wash up) on some plants. The plants are all now really struggling, I’m guessing antibacterial handwash doesn’t agree with them!

Yes all my washing up bowl water (with ecover w/up liquid) goes on plants and pots. Any water in glasses that never got finished, "old" dog bowl water, water in pans if used for "soaking", cooking water from spuds, pasta etc all goes somewhere in the garden. I also have a big water butt so use water from there. Baths - never have them, a waste of water!

We sometimes chuck a bowl of cold washing-up water onto the front grass, but that's about it.

Yes, all of our non greasy washing up water is going on the garden. Have a bucket in the shower to catch the warming up water, which leads to half a bucket at a time. That's enough for our tomatoes each day.

No, don't have baths and use a dishwasher. Am considering a grey water recovery system when we remodel

No but we have a water butt and if we use the (condenser) dryer we use the water from that on the plants or add it to the water butt to be used later. Our water butt has a sock of dead leaves in too which gets replenished every so often, stinks to high heaven but good for the plants!

We've put a large washing up bowl in the shower and stand in it, it's catching most of the water. It's decanted into a bucket to take downstairs.
The bowl also fits under the basin tap so also saving the hand washing water.
Also saving all the water we can in the kitchen (except salty veg water). It adds up to numerous bucketfuls per day.

No, apart from the odd excess glass of water ....but in the drought of the mid 70s I can remember my Dad rigging up some sort of system to hose pipe the bath water into the garden ... he always used to moan about me for having baths but he suddenly started encouraging baths ... he died last year so that brings back fond memories.

Yes, I have a little syphon system and hose that moves my shower water & ds' bath water down to the water butt out of the window..

There's enough to water the greenhouse and all the pots daily

No we haven’t worked out a way to get the water from the bath efficiently and store it. The drainpipes are on our neighbour's sides so we don’t have a water butt or anything.

No, because I’m not convinced it’s a good idea with the chemicals in it.

No, mostly because I live in a flat but also because I have 2 water butts for a small-ish garden and I very rarely run out (Cumbria…)

I wish we could use grey water to flush toilets. (Plumbed in, not using a bucket). Understand why we can’t but still.

Not bath water (have stopped having baths in the current climate), but do use washing up water. I figure whatever is in washing up liquid mustn't be too toxic

No, the soaps from toiletries, washing up, clothing etc is not good for plants and all you are actually doing amending the PH in your soil.

Water costs on average £1.65 for a cubic meter. Thats a 1000 litres (3x bath tubs full).. I have no issue watering the garden from the hose. My plants cost more than the water bill would.

I don't use the bath and I wouldn't use washing up water because of the chemicals.

We do have a hose pipe ban from Friday in my area.

@faffadoodledo Have you looked on the label at the back of the bottle? Toxic to aquatic life!!!
@Bazzels I think the point here is to reuse/recycle rather than just throw away.

When we have showers we put the plug in and I then decant the water into a watering can for use on my garden . The plants have done well so no adverse effects from shower gel or shampoo 😀

We have a water softener. I don’t think the garden would like the salt