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Wow! It got cold here
It dipped below freezing night before last here in northern Florida,
and not only set records but caught me by surprise. It usually freezes once or twice a year here, but never this early before, Thanksgiving is enough to make the front page on the local papers. The lily bloomed three times, but it seemed that no one but me was impressed. It has gone on to bloom an additional six times, for a total of nine flowers. I don't know if that is common or not but it sure is a lot of "bang for the buck" for just a Wal*Mart lily. I don't know what you really call it but I got a sprig of "water parsley" that I planted near the pond. It has sent out three to four foot long "runners" into the pond (and everywhere else). I'm gonna leave it and let the lily and the water parsley battle. It ought to be fun to watch, the show starts in the spring. |
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Wow! It got cold here
Galen Hekhuis wrote:
I don't know what you really call it but I got a sprig of "water parsley" that I planted near the pond. It has sent out three to four foot long "runners" into the pond (and everywhere else). I'm gonna leave it and let the lily and the water parsley battle. It ought to be fun to watch, the show starts in the spring. We moved to Ft. Lauderdale from Annapolis. My wife just tossed out a dying asparagus fern we had in an indoor pot. 3 years later that damn thing had nearly taken over the yard. Beware the monstrous plants in Florida. Chip |
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Wow! It got cold here
"Galen Hekhuis" wrote in message ... It dipped below freezing night before last here in northern Florida, and not only set records but caught me by surprise. It usually freezes once or twice a year here, but never this early before, Thanksgiving is enough to make the front page on the local papers. The lily bloomed three times, but it seemed that no one but me was impressed. It has gone on to bloom an additional six times, for a total of nine flowers. I don't know if that is common or not but it sure is a lot of "bang for the buck" for just a Wal*Mart lily. I don't know what you really call it but I got a sprig of "water parsley" that I planted near the pond. It has sent out three to four foot long "runners" into the pond (and everywhere else). I'm gonna leave it and let the lily and the water parsley battle. It ought to be fun to watch, the show starts in the spring. ========================= We got our first real frost the night before last. The nights have been cold for awhile. The fish are losing their appetites. They're not going i nto their usual feeding frenzy at feeding time. I picked all the green tomatoes. I hope they ripen on the windowsills. -- RM.... Frugal ponding since 1995. rec.ponder since late 1996. Zone 6. Middle TN USA ~~~~ }((((* ~~~ }{{{{(ö |
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Wow! It got cold here
Central MS has had two frosts. One quite substantial. The fish have
decidedly slowed eating. Tomatoes redden, but to not ripen after picking. That is why store tomatoes have such poor taste as compared to vine ripened tomatoes. Essentialy, store tomatoes are vine-unripened. Jim |
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Wow! It got cold here
Only thing, so far, to succumb to cold temperatures
is my basil. We still have some buggies flying around. Rain today, luckily cleared up by trick or treating time. Gorgeous leaves and still on the trees, very unusual for us this time of year. k :-) |
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Wow! It got cold here
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 10:11:18 EDT, kathy wrote:
Only thing, so far, to succumb to cold temperatures is my basil. We still have some buggies flying around. Rain today, luckily cleared up by trick or treating time. Gorgeous leaves and still on the trees, very unusual for us this time of year. k :-) And I'm still waiting for the cannas to be completely knocked down by frost, Stilllllll waiting. They've been singed, but not enough. Last weekend I brought in the taro.... and a host of aphids apparently. I did not debug them and now I see how well my debugging has worked in the past. I'll probably use some in-home safe stuff on them if they get real bad. I'm thinking tenting them with plastic and a bug strip within perhaps? Still need to put the koi ponds on the slowest flow, but would like to take the mower thru there one last time, as the slow flow tube cuts across the grass. Unfortunately this weekend has gone the drippy route, so it will have to wait. Fish are still cruising, temp just below 50F, so they're fine with the waterfall running for now. ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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Wow! It got cold here
Have you a pic of your slow flow mechanism?
Jim |
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Wow! It got cold here
The other morning Jo Ann in Mobile told me it dropped below zero down there. We had
it only dip to 34. No killing frosts yet. However, I did get the pond finally winterized yesterday. This year the veggie filter is where the lily was (in the sun) and has a ginormous chunk of water celery in a big square storage container. yesterday the pond temp was 42, I will see how warm it is without a heater. then add the heater. the solar thing hasnt been tested yet. Ingrid |
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Wow! It got cold here
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 10:16:54 EST, Phyllis and Jim
wrote: Have you a pic of your slow flow mechanism? Jim Not much to see really. I just put a smaller pump in the pump chamber. Here's a pic of when I put it on the top of the prefilter media: http://users.owt.com/jjspond/koipond/photos/set1/11.jpg But now I run water thru the pre-filter, thru one bio-chamber and into the pump chamber where the tubing, connected to the smaller pump w/o mesh baskets, comes out the top and over to the ponds: http://users.owt.com/jjspond/koipond/photos/set1/04.jpg Very low tech. ;-) Due to a slight grade everything self drains back to the pond or filter, so I don't have to worry about freeze ups during a power outage. In hindsight this is not how I would do things if rebuilding, we would figure out an underground way to by-pass the waterfall. At last, we all make do as we learn. ;-) ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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Wow! It got cold here
Galen Hekhuis wrote:
It dipped below freezing night before last here in northern Florida, and not only set records but caught me by surprise. It usually freezes once or twice a year here, but never this early before, Thanksgiving is enough to make the front page on the local papers. The lily bloomed three times, but it seemed that no one but me was impressed. It has gone on to bloom an additional six times, for a total of nine flowers. I don't know if that is common or not but it sure is a lot of "bang for the buck" for just a Wal*Mart lily. I don't know what you really call it but I got a sprig of "water parsley" that I planted near the pond. It has sent out three to four foot long "runners" into the pond (and everywhere else). I'm gonna leave it and let the lily and the water parsley battle. It ought to be fun to watch, the show starts in the spring. We had snow last tuesday.....it only rarely snows in Reading (UK).....and it is almost unheard of for us to even have a frost in October.....it's still cold.....fish are still feeding if I offer them but there is plenty in the pond for them to chomp on.... I'm crossing my fingers that a decent frost will kill off the duckweed, which has been my past experience with the old pond...but nah, not yet....the cannas are still looking OK...do I need to wait for the frosts to kill them back or should I bring them in before this happens? Gill |
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Wow! It got cold here
"Phyllis and Jim" wrote in message ... Central MS has had two frosts. One quite substantial. The fish have decidedly slowed eating. Tomatoes redden, but to not ripen after picking. That is why store tomatoes have such poor taste as compared to vine ripened tomatoes. Essentialy, store tomatoes are vine-unripened. Jim ====================== If they don't have a good flavor I'll use them for cooking where it wont matter as much. -- RM.... Frugal ponding since 1995. rec.ponder since late 1996. Zone 6. Middle TN USA ~~~~ }((((* ~~~ }{{{{(ö |
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Wow! It got cold here
"Gill Passman" wrote in message ... I'm crossing my fingers that a decent frost will kill off the duckweed, which has been my past experience with the old pond...but nah, not yet....the cannas are still looking OK...do I need to wait for the fros ts to kill them back or should I bring them in before this happens? ===================================== We have below freezing weather here in TN and mine come up every spring. I never bring my cannas in. -- RM.... Frugal ponding since 1995. rec.ponder since late 1996. Zone 6. Middle TN USA ~~~~ }((((* ~~~ }{{{{(ö |
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Wow! It got cold here
Our canas stay outside all winter and do fine the next year. We get
some days in the teens, but generally have above freezing themps. Jim Jim |
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