From: "Newbie Bill"
Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com
Newsgroups: rec.ponds
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:01:39 GMT
Subject: water lettuce

I was given 3 tiny water lettuce about a month ago.Without the beverage I
used the BV planting method and put them in my full sun pond. They are
multiplying at a ridiculous rate but even the mother plants are not more
than an inch or so tall. Any suggestions to get them to grow up and not
out?

Bill Brister


You could have the dwarf variety of water hyacinth which will stay small,
about 1/3 to 1/4 the size of the regular ones. I never see them offered in
catalogs but they are offered at my local nursery every year.