If I could get the prices they get for a few strands of parrots
feather I would have been a multi millionaire by now, inless than a
year. I have hauled literally quite a few 4 x 6 foot utility trailers
of it that were heaped high as they could be. One weekend alone I
pulled and hauled 18 trailer loads of it.....I do have it under
control now, and iot sort of restricted to a small area of approx 12 x
20 feet, but I still have an ocasional PF pull when I runout of things
to do........And this all started from 4 strands the wife bought off
the internet, from a well known Aquatic Plant source which had a big
notice on their website staing that they will not ship any plants to
any states that they are prohibited in., The parrots feather they had
listed wa earmarked as not for sale in Alabama, but it got sent out
and the wife put it in the pond...............and as it grew she would
cut some off and plant it else where and finally we had a forest of
PF.....For some reason or other, my wife is very attracted to noxious
invasive plants for somne reason or other.......she is bad about it.
Cat tails, taro, frog bit, duckweed, fairy moss, WH, horse tails,
water clover..been there done that not fun.

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 10:21:57 -0600, Wilmdale
wrote:

===Courageous wrote:
===
===Probably I shouldn;t have done it and may be very sorry, but----
===This morning I went out and bought six water hyacinth. They will add some
===shade and reduce the oxygen and maybe, just maybe, I will be free of all
===that algae.
===
===
===
===During the day, the water hyacinth will add, not reduce, oxygen to your
===pond. At night, they may use it up, particularly if your pond is over
===populated with it. One way to ameliorate this would be to make sure that
===the water is properly circulated at night. Bottom to top, destratified
===somehow, perhaps run through a waterfall if that's not too noisy.
===
===If your pond is small, you won't have a problem with the WH, as long as
===you cull them once in when. Actually, this is good, because the WH will
===concentrate wastes in a form you can easily access. Toss it in your
===compost heap.
===
===If your pond is a large natural one, you may be very, very sorry.
===
===Here's what can happen:
===
===http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/photos/eiccr04.jpg
===
===C//
===
===
===Let's see, $10.00 - $15.00 per bunch of 17 plants, (plus S&H of course),
===aannnnd looks like there are about, oh, I dunno, let me guess, 46,080
===plants, divided by say 17 gives us 2711 "bunches" of WH at on the
===average of, say, $13.00 per bunch, will gross you about $35,243.00 IF
===you can sell them all to us living in zones 1 through 6 cause all ours
===get killed off by the in the winter usually by the end of October or mid
===November. Yep, every year we buy more. :-) .
===Anyway, just food for thought... :-P .
===Seriously, though, I know that it is even illegal to ship WH to some
===states because that very thing happens. I our ponds though, I would
===LOVE to be able to compost because they were doing so well! The few I
===purchased this year are multiplying but I noticed yesterday they are
===starting to get a bit yellowish in color. Maybe due to the hail we have
===been getting.
===
===W. Dale


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