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Clearing algae and silt loaded water
Phyllis and Jim wrote:
If your fountain has no living things in it, you can use an algecide to keep it clear. You will still have to clean out the muck. Jim The trees a quite a ways off, but it was full of algae, mud, sand, and tadpoles. I will now use an algaecide to keep it clear, but it the muck that builds up that I was hoping to filter, out mainly mud and sand. Sheila |
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:29:55 EDT, Sheila wrote:
The trees a quite a ways off, but it was full of algae, mud, sand, and tadpoles. What did you do with the tadpoles? builds up that I was hoping to filter, out mainly mud and sand. Is it real dusty around you, or has it been a long time since the last clean out? ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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~ jan wrote:
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:29:55 EDT, Sheila wrote: The trees a quite a ways off, but it was full of algae, mud, sand, and tadpoles. What did you do with the tadpoles? builds up that I was hoping to filter, out mainly mud and sand. Is it real dusty around you, or has it been a long time since the last clean out? ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us The tadpoles were fished out and put in a neighbor real pond that is a couple acres in area. We get a lot of dust when we mow the lawn, and it hasn't been cleaned for 2 years. I broke my arm last summer and was not able to cope with cleaning it. Sheila |
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The tadpoles were fished out and put in a neighbor real pond that is a couple acres in area. We get a lot of dust when we mow the lawn, and it hasn't been cleaned for 2 years. I broke my arm last summer and was not able to cope with cleaning it. Sheila Wow, where do you live and how short do you cut your lawn? Of course DH wears a lawn mask when he mows and be the end of the season I throw it out (he would just continue wearing it in its blackened state). Still I have a hard time imagining that kind of dust being kicked up from mowing a lawn and I grew up in the southwest. |
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:50:14 EDT, "D Kat"
wrote: The tadpoles were fished out and put in a neighbor real pond that is a couple acres in area. We get a lot of dust when we mow the lawn, and it hasn't been cleaned for 2 years. I broke my arm last summer and was not able to cope with cleaning it. Sheila Wow, where do you live and how short do you cut your lawn? Of course DH wears a lawn mask when he mows and be the end of the season I throw it out (he would just continue wearing it in its blackened state). Still I have a hard time imagining that kind of dust being kicked up from mowing a lawn and I grew up in the southwest. Don't have a lawn, then you won't have to mow it, among other things. Virtually every covenant or neighborhood agreement can be gotten around, so don't even consider whining about that. If we didn't have lawns, we wouldn't waste thousands of gallons of water to sprinkle on them, we wouldn't waste oodles of gallons of gas cutting them, not to mention what the exhaust and dust does to our atmosphere (lungs). How many millions of dollars are spent on lawn mowers, fertilizers, etc.? How many times have you heard at a funeral that so-and-so was a rotten individual, but he/she kept a nice lawn, or the converse, that so-and-so was terrific in so many ways, but they sure kept a crappy lawn? Often people ask, what can we do as individuals? Not having lawns is a pretty good start. |
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Yeah, but....
Boy, does it sure wreak havoc in your basic suburban neighborhood. The weed seed from the dead lawn across the street from us is a menace. One fellow is trying to sell his house and it sure doesn't help to have this dead lawn making the neighborhood look tired and uncared for. The neighborhood is helping out and I hope we can rescue it. Changing planting to xeriscaping is an idea. There are lots of good ideas out there. You don't have to have a lawn but you should not create a problem. Now country living - anything goes!! k :-) |
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:56:37 EDT, kathy wrote:
Yeah, but.... Boy, does it sure wreak havoc in your basic suburban neighborhood. The weed seed from the dead lawn across the street from us is a menace. One fellow is trying to sell his house and it sure doesn't help to have this dead lawn making the neighborhood look tired and uncared for. The neighborhood is helping out and I hope we can rescue it. That's kind of a false dichotomy. It just isn't true that the only two choices are a well-tended lawn and a seedy, weed infested, dying lawn. There are oodles of things you can do. Changing planting to xeriscaping is an idea. There are lots of good ideas out there. You don't have to have a lawn but you should not create a problem. Now country living - anything goes!! True. |
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To me nothing is worse than a 'lawn' gone bad. Meadows, prairies, natural grasslands are wonderful and filled with life -- Astro-turf or the lawns made to look like it, not so much. There really is no reason a suburban 'yard' cannot be an environmentally friendly landscape. A well establish garden that is appropriate for the local climate is almost care free. A cut grass lawn takes a huge amount of resource in time and chemicals to look good and it is almost a sterile habitat. I can understand wanting to have a play area for children but it would be so much better if every block/neighborhood had a common 'lawn/playground' and houses created wildlife friendly gardens. I live in the suburbs of NY long island where many of the houses (very costly ones at that) have rather dull large expanses of lawn and foundation plantings that are clipped into ugly cubes. When we first moved here, the area I liked most had little if any lawns but had many trees and a great many hostas, mountain laurel, rhodies and azaleas. We could not find a place there which we could afford and ended up in one of the development tracks of houses built on flat farmlands. The soil was dead because the builders had dumped the dirt dug out for the basement on top of the topsoil and the lawn had done nothing to increase the topsoil over 30 years. For the last 17 years I have been planting trees and shade gardens and slowly but surely eliminating lawn. In the fall I gather up the leaves (mine and the neighbors) and put them everywhere I can. My yard is filled with birds, dragonflies, butterflies, assorted wild mammals, lots and lots of worms, etc. None of those things were here when we first moved in. I live in an area with large areas of sea water but fresh water is needed for the local wildlife and my ponds work well for that. In the Midwest many farmers put in ponds and it greatly improved the survival chances of migrating water birds. Personally I think most people should lived in cities (and our cities were designed to be people and animal friendly) and more land was set aside for natural environments. I do not have high expectations but who knows. Every new generation moves us forward a tad. Donna "kathy" wrote in message ... Yeah, but.... Boy, does it sure wreak havoc in your basic suburban neighborhood. The weed seed from the dead lawn across the street from us is a menace. One fellow is trying to sell his house and it sure doesn't help to have this dead lawn making the neighborhood look tired and uncared for. The neighborhood is helping out and I hope we can rescue it. Changing planting to xeriscaping is an idea. There are lots of good ideas out there. You don't have to have a lawn but you should not create a problem. Now country living - anything goes!! k :-) |
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Galen Hekhuis wrote:
Often people ask, what can we do as individuals? Not having lawns is a pretty good start. How about a 20' X 20' patch for the dog to wheedle on? When I do cut it, it is with an elecric mower. BTW, most of the ground cover in the AZ desert is now rock. Some damn people from back East (read: Chicago and the Midwest)still insist on trying to grow grass in the middle of a desert. Phooey! Some brave neighbors even sowed desert wildflowers in their dirt front yard. Looks great for about 2wks a year, but kinda weedy the rest of the time. But the HOA hasn't stopped them. Chip |
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Absolutely agree except we don't water or put chemicals on our lawn (well DH
puts anti crabgrass on it but that isn't really a harmful chemical). Still every year I manage to get inch by inch put into shrubs, trees, flowers, etc. Donna "Galen Hekhuis" wrote in message ... On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:50:14 EDT, "D Kat" wrote: The tadpoles were fished out and put in a neighbor real pond that is a couple acres in area. We get a lot of dust when we mow the lawn, and it hasn't been cleaned for 2 years. I broke my arm last summer and was not able to cope with cleaning it. Sheila Wow, where do you live and how short do you cut your lawn? Of course DH wears a lawn mask when he mows and be the end of the season I throw it out (he would just continue wearing it in its blackened state). Still I have a hard time imagining that kind of dust being kicked up from mowing a lawn and I grew up in the southwest. Don't have a lawn, then you won't have to mow it, among other things. Virtually every covenant or neighborhood agreement can be gotten around, so don't even consider whining about that. If we didn't have lawns, we wouldn't waste thousands of gallons of water to sprinkle on them, we wouldn't waste oodles of gallons of gas cutting them, not to mention what the exhaust and dust does to our atmosphere (lungs). How many millions of dollars are spent on lawn mowers, fertilizers, etc.? How many times have you heard at a funeral that so-and-so was a rotten individual, but he/she kept a nice lawn, or the converse, that so-and-so was terrific in so many ways, but they sure kept a crappy lawn? Often people ask, what can we do as individuals? Not having lawns is a pretty good start. |
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D Kat wrote:
The tadpoles were fished out and put in a neighbor real pond that is a couple acres in area. We get a lot of dust when we mow the lawn, and it hasn't been cleaned for 2 years. I broke my arm last summer and was not able to cope with cleaning it. Sheila Wow, where do you live and how short do you cut your lawn? Of course DH wears a lawn mask when he mows and be the end of the season I throw it out (he would just continue wearing it in its blackened state). Still I have a hard time imagining that kind of dust being kicked up from mowing a lawn and I grew up in the southwest. We live in Georgia and have some large areas that have not been seeded yet and there are weeds and bare ground. This is where a future garden and arbor will go, it's a large area so we kick up a lot of dust. We have to wear masks too. Hopefully we get it finished up some time this fall. Sheila |
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~ jan wrote:
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:29:55 EDT, Sheila wrote: The trees a quite a ways off, but it was full of algae, mud, sand, and tadpoles. What did you do with the tadpoles? builds up that I was hoping to filter, out mainly mud and sand. Is it real dusty around you, or has it been a long time since the last clean out? ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us I forgot to mention that in the spring, we get lots and lots of pollen since we have 11 acres of woods. The yellow pollen leaves a ring where the water level is at the time. Sheila |
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