Phisherman wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:35:36 -0500, zxcvbob
wrote:

Which is better, getting rid of *all* the standing water? Or leaving
one bucket full of stagnant water under a tree (to lure them to one
place) and putting one of those "mosquito dunks" in it?

I think I'm gonna try the latter this year.

I dumped out some little flower pots this afternoon and they were full
of wigglers already.

Bob


Even better, put a rosy red minnow or goldfish in the bucket. Much
lower cost than those bacteria dunks. Water green with algae works
best.


A couple of years ago, I had a huge flower pot full of water with a
lotus seedling in it and a few minnows. The lotus never bloomed, but it
did look pretty with it's big leaves that danced in the rain, and the
minnows seemed happy.

I was gonna plant a lotus seed last winter to try to get it going early
enough to bloom but I never got a round tuit. (I still have the lotus
seeds, and they keep pretty well.)

Bob