all summer! DH fishes, so we have a minnow vat out back full of them. He
will drop one or two in the dog water troughs (5 gallon bucket like the kind
they use for pickles) and then we have another (about-2-gallon) container
that we keep next to the water spigot. There are smaller trays out front
and out back for the wildlife but they get emptied daily (so the larvae
don't live). Then when the weather starts cooling down DH will take his
minnows back.
With hope and heart,
Kathleen


Kathleen wrote:
How long does a minnow live in one of those barrels?


We drop a minnow in each of the water receptacles around here and that
works
perfectly!
With hope and heart,
Kathleen

--
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper
He should sweep streets
Even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music,
or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well
that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say,
Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr



Had a well doh moment yesterday. I went to clean the screen of the city
bought rain barrel and the darn barrel was full of mosquitoes and
larva. I don't know why I assumed that the screen would keep the
dreaded vampire bugs out, but it sure did not. Obviously a mosquito
dunk is in order here. Talked to the city this morning and they seemed
unconcerned and said that a dunk would handle it and not everybody had
the problem. I thought that I would send a heads up to any of you who
have these barrels. My barrel has been drained and washed out and it
sitting in the sun awaiting our next rain so that I can put in a
mosquito dunk. I hate the thought of thousands of these darn things
breeding mosquitoes all over the city. Sheesh the city is selling
mosquito breeders. Yeah, I should have known better.

Cea