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And what's ecoballs then Bertie?

So what is the best washing powder that you can reuse for fruit trees and vegetables? I may have a lot of water to carry around but am determined to at least keep the fruit trees alive. Just don't want to use the wrong detergents and kill them anyway.
Thought you may have had some rain from TC Monica, Boots. we just watch the cyclones go off on their merry journey around the top end. used to get some low pressure systems come down the coast and give some rain from the cyclones as they petered out.

No Nick,
All we got from Larry was humidity and darks skies. Then got excited when it drizzled one night and thought it was the start of something good when the next one started teasing. Nope. Woke to another blue sky.

I wash clothes in what I call gloop. It is grated sunlight soap (put through a blender with a grating attachment) and then turned into gloop by adding water. About a cup to every 2 litre bottle does it. Then I fragrance with a dash of oil straight into the water. Eucalyptus normally, or if the citrus is on, then straight lemon juice.

Does no noticeable harm - in fact it is excellent as a scale spray and when my lilly pillies got this black sooty disorder (whatever that was?), it sorted that too.

We're great believers in grey water, and are considering using a sand filter to help reduce the suspended load and nasties so we can store the water (having a clay layer under the top soil means we could quite easily get water logged). Has anybody any experience in doing this???

Boots wrote:And what's ecoballs then Bertie?

laundry balls with pellets to ionise the water or some such thing,they bang your laundry around in the machine and it comes out clean (as long as its not really filthy) and soft with no smell.

thanks Boots, will make some up tonight when there are no helpers around. we have clouds but still no rain. most of the area around here is pretty bare and we are only going into winter.