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RE: Home Gardening in drought conditions and Bokashi follow up
Good luck with your seedlings! Drought is no fun. It looks like you have a plan, though,. Are you able to reuse the water from your house, like the kitchen sink?
@haphazard-hstead .... we rigged up piping from our wash machine and the bath and showers, definitely NOT kitchen sink as the fat builds up in the sandy soil and you end up with big problems. I took some quick photo's this morning... not great but you will get the idea.
We also removed our top loader wash machine and replaced it with a front loader which has an 'eco' cycle which uses less than half of what the top loader used to use. We also only buy biodegradable soap powder and shower accessories... so this drought is turning out to be an expensive exercise
How we attach to the wash machine outlet (not coupled, just to give the idea)
Roll the pipe out to the front garden beds... alternating between the three
Shower / bathroom / basin pipe outlet with pink pool tubing coupled.....
Long pipe to reach shrub garden beds, lawn a lost cause. Wrapped in shade cloth to protect from the harsh African sun.
Drought is expensive, indeed. You have really adapted to make good use of the water you have. It's interesting to compare the perspective of different places about water reuse. When I lived in Tucson, Arizona, they encouraged the use of kitchen water - but NOT laundry water, unless it was put underground without any chance of human contact. Their concern was human waste. But then they studied what people were actually doing and found that there weren't health issues. So now they encourage the use of water from the kitchen, showers, and laundry - and off the roof and the street.
But then the wastewater treatment plants are finding that the waste water they get is so much more concentrated, that their treatment costs and methods had to be adjusted. And the sewer lines weren't moving the waste down the system, and clogging more often. Because the total flow is so much less.
So drought has a lot of complicated consequences. I hope you are able to keep some of your perennials, especially. Lawns are a nice buffer, because they can go dormant. Here's hoping your drought ends soon.