Resident says hard tap water can make granular fertilizer precipitate; recommends liquid fertilizers

At a meeting, a resident warned that very hard tap water can cause granular fertilizers to precipitate and leave a sand-like residue, and recommended using liquid fertilizers instead.

The resident said, “And I'm only doing this because our our water is so ridiculously hard.” They told attendees that adding treatment “just a little bit at a time” would be slow, noting, “it takes a couple hours to disperse throughout the system.”

The resident described what they said happens when granular fertilizer reacts in hard water: “With the fertilizer, you'll see in here that, sometimes it, precipitates just a little bit. So it'll look like sand at the bottom of the, the tub.” They added that liquid fertilizers “tend not to not to precipitate.”

Discussion only; there was no motion, vote, or formal recommendation recorded in the transcript. The speaker described practical considerations — slow dispersion when adding treatments incrementally and visible precipitate — but did not specify the chemical treatments, product names, hardness level (parts per million), or the exact quantity implied by “half a bottle.”

Because the transcript contains only this brief exchange, there is no record of staff follow-up, testing, or any formal guidance from an official body. The resident framed the recommendation as a homeowner tip rather than an official policy change.