boiling will remove the chlorine, but letting it sit in a bucket for a few days works too.
neither way removes heavy metal tho ...

My outside water is just as bad. My first vegetable garden I had here was this year and it sucked big time. My Big Boy tomatoes came out the size of walnuts, so did my bell peppers. My broccoli didn't even grow at all.

After having this discussion with Al B.F. I dug out my water report and found my sodium content is 130 PPM (I'm right on the coast) .... as a comparison, the neighboring county's (30 miles inland) sodium content is 8 PPM. Al told me the way my vegetables grew is a sign of high salt content.

So unfortunately no matter where or what I grow here I have to use RO or distilled water because the stuff coming out of the tap is lethal to my edible and smokable plants. Funny though... the tropical plants I have in my yard do great, I guess they don't mind the salt in the water.

This was all new to me as I'm a born and bred Cali girl and my gardens there were always awesome with water right out of the hose.

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