Using rainwater collected from your roof for the garden

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9. Using the gray water from your washing machine to water the garden

Been reading sites where they talk about using the discharge water from their washing machine for watering gardens. This seems like a very interesting idea and I may do some playing around today as I have to wash a load today and I can find out how much water I can get. Some people stress to only use the water from the rinse cycle. Others use the wash water too but they stress using only environmentally friendly detergent(no bleach) or homemade detergent made with natural ingredients. And all have said not to use the water used to wash diapers. Not even the rinse water.

I wash a couple of loads a week and currently have a large capacity top loading washing machine. I'll update this later to let know how much water I get from the wash cycle, the rinse cycle and the total.