Actually, the plants I'd be after are the pickerel weed and there are some
in very shallow water and would be easy to get to. What do you mean by
sterizilizing?

I loved your pond pictures. Wish I had the room for that size. Mine is a bit
smaller.

http://photos.yahoo.com/lns_obsessed (look under Garden folder - there are
two pages)


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LN in NH (new gardener/ponder in zone 5)

"~ jan JJsPond.us" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:04:31 GMT, "LN \(remove NOSPAM\)"
wrote:

Ok. Rephrase that as, a lot of different answers meaning not the same
thing
said over and over. Lots of info as in... thanks for the flood of
information.

Here's another bottom line:

Even if it's okay, once you get down there, where the plants are living,
you might have 2nd thoughts of how much is your work worth?

In my 2nd year of ponding (or maybe the 1st) I saw yellow flag iris in a
local pond. I parked the car and walked to where I could see that getting
to the area to dig meant wearing something better than flipflops, and a
BIG
shovel that could manage digging thru even BIGGER rocks. Than take into
account the mud, the sweat, the sterilizing and I gladly shelled out the
$$
and got exactly what I wanted. ~ jan

See my ponds and filter design:
http://users.owt.com/jjspond/

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