Can I water my grass and garden with my water from my water softner??

Question

We have well water and would like to hook up a water softner for the household water, but where we would like to set it up is in the pump house and that would be hooking it toall of our water system, including our yard, can water from a water softener hurt our grass and plants

Answer 1

The first three answers are wrong. Softening your water does not add enough sodium to the water to be harmful to the plants. And water is not the major source of trace elements, the soil is. And if the soil is deficient, well, that's why people add fertilizer to water, like Peters or MiracleGrow. If you want to use up your softened water on your lawn it won't help anything but it won't hurt it either.

Answer 2

No. That water is cleaner but the amount of water going on the grass would overload the softeners capability. This causes the softening grains inside to get maxed out and therefore won't soften any more water. What this means is that every time you water the yard you won't have soft water for the house. This defeats the propose of the whole thing.

Answer 3

We have also been trying to cut back on expenses and become greener at the same time. The most recent changes we have made are: Composting everything possible of the kitchen scraps and buying things with less packaging and recycling everything as much as we can. We save all the rinse water from washing veggies to water the garden with and put lots of mulch around the plants to retain moisture. Also we take shorter showers, and when brushing our teeth we always remember to turn off the water until time to rinse! Our light bulbs are the energy efficient kind and so are our washer and dryer. Now that it is summer, we are eating more cold foods and that saves a bunch on electricity for cooking and doesn't heat up the house! Besides raw veggies and fruits have more vitamins!

Answer 4

Since most water softners use salt for a leeching agent, the water from them will indeed harm your plants and grass. The salt in the water would more than likely kill your plants.

Answer 5

Not recommended, cause treatment takes the minerals that flowers and grass need..when you hook up the softener, put a spigot for well water outside for your yard....

Answer 6

The first three answers contain all the reasons why you don't want to do
that. Put a tee connection between the well and the softner and run water
pipes to desired locations.

Answer 7

No! Salt will build up in your soil. Not good for it.