Smitty,

It is nice to have you here.

You set up sounds great. The upper pond (veggie filter?) seems to be
working very well. Jim set our system up in a similar manner. Our
berm ponds collect the muck and the lower pond never needs cleaning.
Have you ever run something like hyacinth or water celery in your
upper pond? Ours grows like anything all summer.l Jim throws out
bushels of hyacinth (that he describes as reprocessed fish waste). He
also sends celery and hyacinth to other ponders.

Jim and I both enjoy the group a lot.

Phyllis