This is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com, today I have another exciting episode for
you, and today I’m going to be playing with something real fun, H20, that’s water for
you guys.
Now one of the questions that I get a lot and very often is “Hey John, should I filter
the water that’s going into my garden?”
Well my answer is absolutely yes, and as you can see I got a filter right here, this comes
out of the house there spigot, goes into my drip system and I’ve got a little filter
here.
But this is not the kind of filter that I’m going to talk about today, this is actually
just like a mesh screen filter, so that it won’t let your drippers get clogged up.
What I’m going to talk about today is actually a filter to filter the water coming out of
the wall if you’re on city water because it contains things like chlorine, fluoride
and potentially other things that may be not so good for your garden, I mean we all know,
you know many of you guys out there may drink purified or bottled water, but you put the
tap water on your plants, but you wouldn’t drink your own tap water.
I’m in favor of filtering the water that you get out of your house as much as possible.
In m shower actually I have a shower filter and then I have a whole house filter, and
any water I drink I’m definitely ensuring it’s filtered, but I’m not buying bottled
water because all this comes in plastic and this is not renewable and some of these water
companies are really bad news according to some of the documentaries I’ve seen.
They’re literally bottling up city water by filtering it and then selling it back to
you at exorbitant costs.
So what we’re going to do today instead of pouring bottled water on your plants to
get filtered water, I’m going to share with you guys how very inexpensively you can start
water for your garden.
Now why is filtering water for your garden important?
Well, you know when you drink the bottled water it tastes a lot better and that’s
because probably one of the main ingredients is the chlorine.
The chlorine is put in the water to kill the microbes, the bacteria so that there’s no
water-borne illnesses like giardia or [inaudible] which is two little things that can live in
the water that can get people really sick.
Now this is good for the municipal water supply, but it’s maybe not so good for us, and that’s
why people buy bottled water, but more importantly, in my opinion it’s not good for our plants
or, more importantly for the microbes in the soil.
After all, this water has a chlorine to kill the organisms in the water, when it goes into
your soil when you’re watering, it also may damage the microorganisms and other things
in your soil, and the soil biologics.
So for that reason I recommend you guys use a filter.
So I have had past episodes where I show installing different kinds of filters, today I’m going
to show you actually two of the easiest ones, and the simplest one right here is actually
called Clean Water Fun, and I saw this actually at the Mother Earth News Fair, I got an episode
a while back on that.
And the reason why I like this, this is fairly inexpensive, it’s under 30 dollars, and
this I believe is primarily carbon in here.
This is going to filter up to 10,000 gallons at 1.5 gallons per minute.
So these are very easy to install, all you’re literally going to do is basically unscrew
the two ends here to expose where you’re going to screw them in, and one end is a male.
So we’re going to go ahead and first go through the pressure regulator and the one-way
valve on my drip system then go through the particulate filter, we’re going to unscrew
the adapter that goes into my drip system, and all we’re simply going to do is just
screw this guy into place.
So
now we got this installed, we can go ahead and turn this on, now the water’s going
through the standard filter, the mesh filter, and now through our Clean Water Fun that’s
going to filter out the chlorine and other VOCs, that’s volatile organic compounds,
in your garden.
Now this is one way I recommend you guys do if you have a hose adapter for your drip system.
Another way that may be smarter than doing it this way, because if this gets knocked
it’s going to break and I don’t like too much stuff hanging down is the way I’m going
to do it right now, and we’re going to do that on this side.
So this is the side that goes to my standard garden hose, and now we’re going to need
a new water filter.
So for this side, I’ve got a different kind and this is going to be real good for you
guys, because I negotiated another deal.
Now these water filters, this one’s really inexpensive, as I mentioned it’s under 30
dollars, shipping’s probably about eight bucks, and you can get it for under 40 dollars
delivered, but it only lasts 10,000 gallons.
The guy in here, let me go ahead and open this up, and it ships in a flat-rate envelope.
The water filter in here is actually called the Boogie Blue water filter for your garden,
and this one is effective up to 35,000 gallons.
It greatly reduces heavy metals and other common toxins like pesticides, mercury, dissolved
solids and other volatile organic compounds.
So this one’s a little bit smaller, [inaudible] using a different filter media, the KDF media,
so I like this a lot and once again we could screw it on like this, but once again if you
just knock this, it might break and you’ll have a water leak and that’s no fun.
So what I’m going to do is something very smart, you want to just take a small piece
of stagnant extra hose, so actually this hose happens to be from my washer and dryer, I
think I pulled this off because I got some stainless steel braided hose, but unfortunately
this has two female ends, so we need a gender changer.
Now I know you guys can get a gender changer operation, but I happened to go down to Home
Depot and got a male to male gender changer here, so we’re just going to go ahead and
screw that guy in there real tight.
So now we have a gender changer, the male and the female, and that’s how it works,
just like that.
So now what we’re going to do is we’re going to go ahead and screw in the female
side to the hose bit right here, make sure that’s nice and tight.
Then on the male side here we’re going to go ahead and screw in our Boogie Blue water
filter just like so.
And then finally we’re going to screw in our garden hose right there.
And now because we did this, this could easily just set on the ground just like that, it’s
going to be out of the way, and you’re not knock it or anything like that, we need to
turn this on, and now our water is being filtered.
The Boogie Blue water filter is normally I think around 50 dollars on their website,
boogiebrew.net, but once again, I negotiated a GYG, Growing Your Greens only special, we’ll
get you guys that filter for 39 dollars delivered anywhere in the 50 United States or territories
of the US in a flat-rate envelope, the but the deal gets only better, because check it
out, along with your Boogie Blue filter, you’re going to get right here, the Boogie Brew compost
tea, you’re going to get a small bag that’s going to make gallons and gallons of compost
tea to feed your plants this upcoming season.
So Boogie Brew, they’re actually a compost tea company originally, but they found when
they sold their compost tea to people, and people would use the common tap water out
of the tap to brew the tea, the results were not as effective because guess what?
The chlorine in the tap water’s killing all the microbes inside the compost tea, and
that’s why they started selling the filter to filter the water out so that now the microbes
and the beneficial organisms in the compost tea can thrive.
So this is probably a really good kit to get, number one you got your Boogie Blue water
filter, now you could brew your compost tea in clean water.
Another way of course you could brew your compost tea is if you just put out your water
overnight, some of the chlorine will evaporate and then use that to make your compost tea,
but why not get the filter and the tea, so now all your plants and all the soil biologics
in your soil could be assured they’re going to get chlorine-free water.
I have noticed increases in growth from changing to using the filtered water from the unfiltered
water.
Some people say it may not make a difference, but I truly believe that we want to get back
to nature and model nature, in nature, the rain doesn’t have chlorine in it already
dissolved, you know rain is pure water, and with the Boogie Blue filter, you’re going
to get more close to resembling and simulating nature using the city water.
Now once again, this is only for the city water or municipal water supply, if you’re
on a well, this probably is not going to be the right filter for you, then you want a
consult some of the deals with filters to get you the right filter to filter out some
of the things that may not be so good in the water you’re currently using.
I guess I’m really happy now that I got filtered water, and you guys know about this
Boogie Brew deal with the Boogie Blue filter, and the sample pack of Boogie Brew compost
tea you can now get, I’ll put a link down below to order that special.
Now this is for a limited time only, and the last thing I wanted to say is the Boogie Brew
people, they’re really good people and they want to encourage you guys to recycle.
So once this filter cartridge is expended, which it says it lasts on here up to 35,000
gallons, and that’s up to, it depends on your water quality, you can send this back
to them for five dollars off your next replacement order of the Boogie Blue filter, so that way
you don’t have to just chuck this, they’re going to take this and recycle it, I mean
once again, Boogie Brew is located in California and I think people in California are a little
bit more progressive in recycling-wise than other parts of country.
In any case, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode learning how I filter my water with
a standard inline hose water filter, once again my name is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com,
we’ll see you next time, and remember, keep on growing.