Watering your garden with Filtered Water. Why I don't use chlorinated water to water my plants

John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com talks about removing the chlorine from your irrigation water to promote larger and faster root growth, which translates to larger and faster plant growth and larger yields. Learn about the most economical filter to use in your garden.

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• filtered
• water
• plants
• garden
• organic
• filter
• h2o
• watering
• chlorine
• removal
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• filtering
• hose
• irrigation
• tube
• pipe
• faster
• growing
• root
• mass
• plant

[chova23]

I am a complete newby to all of this, so excuse my question, but...where do I get the filter housing? Do I buy that separately or along with the filter? I don't see them on the Matrikx website. Is there a particular brand/type of housing that you recommend? Thanks!

[growingyourgreens]

a hardware store such as home depot or lowest will have the filter housing. Its a standard filter housing.

[rdoe99]

I'd like to try this. My only concern is with regard to water pressure. How do these filters effect the water pressure? Could I still run a sprinkler for the lawn if I used a filter like this?

[growingyourgreens]

Yes, it will reduce flow to some extent. This is not a problem if using a drip system due to lower pressure required. If your using spinklers, I would reccomend something a larger carbon block filter, or granulated carbon, which will flow better than a carbon block.

[MsPatreesh]

Hi John,

Any tips on where to buy rock dust online?

[growingyourgreens]

planetnatural. c o m for $18.95 for 50 pounds + shipping..

[totoynani143]

i had just bought a house with a big backyard,i want to turn it into a vegestable garden, there use to be an above ground swimming pool,the reason i know this is bcz i can still see the shape,and the soil has a white powder look to it. Is it safe to plant for consumption? i have never planted vegestable b4, u'r help would be apreciated.Thank you!

[jdjackson05]

@growingyourgreens Thanks for all you hard work John. Bought a filter and a housing for the garden. You saved us all alot of research....I started researching and then thought...I'll check out what John has on his Youtube site...couple minutes later had my answer. Thank you sir for all that you do!

[dissyfingers]

thank you for the great info what about floride? does that hurt plants?

[telemarker77]

i mulch my garden beds with medium sized pine bark. Then I drip through the top of that. It is better than a carbon filter as it also traps heavy minerals. i remove the bark before the start of the rainy season when i can turn the water off. a heavy rain will leach most of the mineral out of the soil the bark did not get. i wait until pine bark goes on sale then buy a lot. also some cities use very low concentrations of chlorine, especially if they use well water.

[OrganicTexas]

@NaomiChambers

Their loss as these videos are very helpful & thorough. I'm not sure why a channel with nearly 3300 subscribers "need[s]" to cut back their videos for a small percentage of people who can't focus for longer than 5 minutes.

[NaomiChambers]

@OrganicTexas

Good For you. Most people click away after 5 minutes.