Hard/Soft water

**Jeanied** · 16-01-2010, 08:47 PM

It certainly makes a difference to the houseplants HW - quite a few need to be watered with soft water as they are lime haters.

**piskieinboots** · 16-01-2010, 10:15 PM

Yes it does make a difference, certain plants should not be watered with tap water, blueberries being one such example

**Alison** · 16-01-2010, 10:29 PM

Dunno about different types of tap water being better or worse for plants as I tend to use rain water for most of mine anyway. However do know that it never seems possible to make a decent up of tea with London water, really eurgh

**Jeanied** · 16-01-2010, 10:38 PM

Just as well I only drink coffee, eh, Alison!

**Alison** · 16-01-2010, 10:45 PM

LOL - I think there is also an element of what you're used to but I'm not sure I could ever get used to that scummy layer you always seem to get

**Bigmallly** · 16-01-2010, 10:51 PM

I am grateful for having soft water but do not understand why it is so different throughout the country.

**Jeanied** · 16-01-2010, 10:52 PM

Aquifers, old chap, aquifers!

**Bigmallly** · 16-01-2010, 10:53 PM

Just gonna google aquifiers....be right back........

**Bigmallly** · 16-01-2010, 11:00 PM

I've got a headache now and still no wiser............

.........I think I will just accept that water is either hard or soft & leave it at that.

**gojiberry** · 16-01-2010, 11:07 PM

We have nice soft water down here. In twenty odd years the kettle still doesn't have a speck of limescale in it.

Ian

**Jeanied** · 16-01-2010, 11:08 PM

sorry BM didn't mean to do your head in - all it means is that the water drains through different rock formations in different parts of the country - as it drains it collects different kinds of minerals which makes the water unique!

**zazen999** · 16-01-2010, 11:09 PM

And chalk is limestone so.....when the underlying soil is chalk, you get more lime in the water.

**Nicos** · 17-01-2010, 04:00 AM

fact for the day....

When we went on a tour of Robinsons brewery in Stockport ( well worth a visit!)
it was interesting to hear that when 'local beers' are made in alternative places, they have to alter the local water used to match that in the original location- to get the same flavour/quality.
Now I'd have never thought about that- would you???

...and Bigmallly.... the more minerals the water collects, the harder it gets.
That's how those water filters work - by removing the minerals etc, the water ends up softer and sweeter tasting- and no scum on your London tea!!

**zazen999** · 17-01-2010, 08:11 AM

On a slightly different note, I worked on site just around the corner from Dover for a year where the water was ridiculously hard. I brought from home a water filter for our site kettle; and it was filled up pretty much hourly and used for all our drinks/crap-a-soups etc.....it was used from 6:30ish for the first round of coffees and 6-7ish for the last.......and it was still removing most of the lime by the end of the job. We never had to empty any lime out of that kettle; even with the constant use. We also used the kettle to warm water for soaking soil and as that's why we were there [a soils lab], it definitely got alot of use!

So when they say filters only work for a month or two [or 200 filterings], they lie!

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