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It's time to come back out and play. (I hope)
What are your plans for this spring? I know I want to get the out-of-pond in-the-ground filter put in on the lily pond. I'm planning on not draining and sucking the muck out. The weather hasn't been too agreeable so far. No early spring for us like last winter. We thought it would be, as January was so mild, but February turned on the cold and March is hanging on to it. How about you? ~ jan -------------- See my ponds and filter design: www.jjspond.us ~Keep 'em Wet!~ Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website |
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I cleaned out my bio falls filter today. It was really yucky! Got a 3,000
gallon pond. Fed the fish a little for the first time since October. Looking forward to a great spring! "~ janj" wrote in message ... It's time to come back out and play. (I hope) What are your plans for this spring? I know I want to get the out-of-pond in-the-ground filter put in on the lily pond. I'm planning on not draining and sucking the muck out. The weather hasn't been too agreeable so far. No early spring for us like last winter. We thought it would be, as January was so mild, but February turned on the cold and March is hanging on to it. How about you? ~ jan -------------- See my ponds and filter design: www.jjspond.us ~Keep 'em Wet!~ Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website |
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~ janj wrote in
: It's time to come back out and play. (I hope) What are your plans for this spring? I know I want to get the out-of-pond in-the-ground filter put in on the lily pond. I'm planning on not draining and sucking the muck out. The weather hasn't been too agreeable so far. No early spring for us like last winter. We thought it would be, as January was so mild, but February turned on the cold and March is hanging on to it. How about you? ~ jan -------------- See my ponds and filter design: www.jjspond.us ~Keep 'em Wet!~ Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website I just peeled off the tent cover off my little pond, had a heater going all winter, it never iced up at all compared to last year which I had 4 inchs if ice even while it was covered, all fish look good, water looks dirty. Waiting for more warm weather here in Toronto, Canada to get the pump going. Joel |
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"~ janj" wrote in message ... It's time to come back out and play. (I hope) What are your plans for this spring? I know I want to get the out-of-pond in-the-ground filter put in on the lily pond. I'm planning on not draining and sucking the muck out. The weather hasn't been too agreeable so far. No early spring for us like last winter. We thought it would be, as January was so mild, but February turned on the cold and March is hanging on to it. How about you? ~ jan -------------- See my ponds and filter design: www.jjspond.us ~Keep 'em Wet!~ Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website Time to clean out the lilies that have filled in the bottom foot of the pond. Going to kill my back again, I am sure. JD |
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On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 12:00:36 -0800, ~ janj wrote:
It's time to come back out and play. (I hope) What are your plans for this spring? I know I want to get the out-of-pond in-the-ground filter put in on the lily pond. I'm planning on not draining and sucking the muck out. The weather hasn't been too agreeable so far. No early spring for us like last winter. We thought it would be, as January was so mild, but February turned on the cold and March is hanging on to it. How about you? ~ jan Spring has definitely sprung here. My pond used to be just a junk heap albeit in water. I don't have a liner or anything like that. I had carefully watched the water level last year (I was too lazy to get it cleaned up) and was pretty sure I knew how high the water got. So after the bulldozer got through with the thing this year, I waited for the hole to fill up again. It did so in about a week, and then I waited another two weeks before planting bulbs. A few days after I did, this particular area got some rather heavy rain. The water came up in the pond over 16 inches, covering the yardstick I had stuck in there as a measuring device. I figured the bulbs that were covered were pretty much toast and so I planted some more bulbs. Lo and behold some of the day lilies and cannas sprouted underwater, and are still surviving today even though the water has receded. (I mostly planted day lilies, cannas, iris, elephant ears and stuff. I'd planted some last year and the deer didn't eat them and they seemed to thrive even with my neglect.) I'm impressed. My style of gardening is to get bulbs at a specialty store (Wal Mart), dig a hole and pop 'em in (no fertilizer or anything), and then maybe water them if I get around to it. I still can't get over seeing tadpoles resting on a plant that sprouted underwater, and today is happily growing out of the water. Like I say, I'm impressed, although I'm probably easily impressed. Galen Hekhuis NpD, JFR, GWA Stings like a butterfly, floats like a bee |
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It was 56o outside today. The heated water was also 55o and I fed the fish again. I
was tempted to move the output hose into the veggie filter(with no veggies yet), but I resisted. I have a seachem ammonia alert in the pond so I can make sure the water is good for em since I been feeding em all winter. I want to put up a greenhouse over my pond this summer. This year I have an entire new city backyard to landscape and dig a pond at our rental. I am also putting in fruit trees and a grape arbor. Out at the dacha I want to finish the deck around the big pond and build little tents to go over the ponds in fall keep the oak leaves out and keep heat in. Ingrid ~ janj wrote: It's time to come back out and play. (I hope) What are your plans for this spring? I know I want to get the out-of-pond in-the-ground filter put in on the lily pond. I'm planning on not draining and sucking the muck out. The weather hasn't been too agreeable so far. No early spring for us like last winter. We thought it would be, as January was so mild, but February turned on the cold and March is hanging on to it. How about you? ~ jan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List at http://weloveteaching.com/puregold/ sign up: http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?...s=Group+lookup www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I receive no compensation for running the Puregold list or Puregold website. I do not run nor receive any money from the ads at the old Puregold site. |
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Going to kill my back again, I am sure. JD
I feel your pain (to be). I noted soon after I last posted that the temp had hit 50*F. So I went out to prune the roses, one of which is by the koi ponds. I saved that one for last, knowing how easily I'm distract to water related activities. Sure enough, I go out to prune it and next thing I've got the shop vac out sucking up the maple tree shucks off the screens and leaves around the ponds. Saw a swimming bullfrog under the surface, so another has snuck into my yard. Last one I hauled off to the demon pond, so I can only hope I can catch this one by the time I take the screens off. Then I cleaned the skimmer and added water to top off the ponds. Turned out to be a pretty good days, pond-wise. Now for some Tylenol. ~ jan -------------- See my ponds and filter design: www.jjspond.us ~Keep 'em Wet!~ Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website |
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"Galen Hekhuis" wrote in message ... Lo and behold some of the day lilies and cannas sprouted underwater, and are still surviving today even though the water has receded. (I mostly planted day lilies, cannas, iris, elephant ears and stuff. I'd planted some last year and the deer didn't eat them and they seemed to thrive even with my neglect.) ==================== I've not had luck trying to grow daylilies in wet soil. They seem to like damp soil with good drainage. Water iris will thrive in your pond environment and come in several nice colors. Please keep me informed in how these plants do for you over the summer. -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://tinyurl.com/9do58 ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o |
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Moments before spontaneously combusting Fred Hall at
was heard opining: On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:42:33 -0600, "Koi-Lo" wrote: "Galen Hekhuis" wrote in message ... Lo and behold some of the day lilies and cannas sprouted underwater, and are still surviving today even though the water has receded. (I mostly planted day lilies, cannas, iris, elephant ears and stuff. I'd planted some last year and the deer didn't eat them and they seemed to thrive even with my neglect.) ==================== I've not had luck trying to grow daylilies in wet soil. They seem to like damp soil with good drainage. Same here in Zone 8. Our soil is brick-hard, red clay. Fortunately, day lillies, at least here, will grow and bloom when laid directly on top of the ground. Usually though, I throw a bit of compost on top of them. ================= Brick-hard reddish brown clay is what we have as well. I've dug in tons of compost we make ourselves with the help of a chipper-shredder. For the flowerbeds I also added loads of "bought" cow manure, sulfur, Ironite, sand, bone meal, blood meal and general fertilizers. The soil here is poor droughty gladevill soil. When dry it's like concrete, when wet it's like mustard. We had to totally redo the berm with rebar and cement around our 2000g pond because the sides were collapsing and sinking. Now it looks like the 800g one is next. -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://tinyurl.com/9do58 ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o |
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Koi-Lo wrote:
Moments before spontaneously combusting Fred Hall at was heard opining: On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:42:33 -0600, "Koi-Lo" wrote: "Galen Hekhuis" wrote in message ... Lo and behold some of the day lilies and cannas sprouted underwater, and are still surviving today even though the water has receded. (I mostly planted day lilies, cannas, iris, elephant ears and stuff. I'd planted some last year and the deer didn't eat them and they seemed to thrive even with my neglect.) ==================== I've not had luck trying to grow daylilies in wet soil. They seem to like damp soil with good drainage. Same here in Zone 8. Our soil is brick-hard, red clay. Fortunately, day lillies, at least here, will grow and bloom when laid directly on top of the ground. Usually though, I throw a bit of compost on top of them. ================= Brick-hard reddish brown clay is what we have as well. I've dug in tons of compost we make ourselves with the help of a chipper-shredder. For the flowerbeds I also added loads of "bought" cow manure, sulfur, Ironite, sand, bone meal, blood meal and general fertilizers. The soil here is poor droughty gladevill soil. When dry it's like concrete, when wet it's like mustard. We had to totally redo the berm with rebar and cement around our 2000g pond because the sides were collapsing and sinking. Now it looks like the 800g one is next. My experience with Day Lilies is much the same as Fred's is - and my soil is clay as well. I add very little when planting them other than a little bit of compost. |
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I already have a ton of water lillys pushing up leaves and even my
sensitive vine is starting to show some green growth. ALl the trees ahave budded out or have new leaves, and the water temp in the large ponds had never gotten below 55 deg, so we have never stopped feeding the fish. Not going to go to any extremes this year with the two larger ponds and intend to just let whats there grow, and not add anything new in the line of plants or fish (yea, I really see that happening) Going to put a bit more attention into the preforms and water features the wife has around the house, and spend more time on a few ideas for sal****er and freshwater tanks. In some ways I certainly am glad my ponds are natural ponds so there is no real need to vac any crud and junk out, but there is times when I wish they were not natural so I could control things more to my liking...... On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:28:36 -0800, ~ janj wrote: Going to kill my back again, I am sure. JD I feel your pain (to be). I noted soon after I last posted that the temp had hit 50*F. So I went out to prune the roses, one of which is by the koi ponds. I saved that one for last, knowing how easily I'm distract to water related activities. Sure enough, I go out to prune it and next thing I've got the shop vac out sucking up the maple tree shucks off the screens and leaves around the ponds. Saw a swimming bullfrog under the surface, so another has snuck into my yard. Last one I hauled off to the demon pond, so I can only hope I can catch this one by the time I take the screens off. Then I cleaned the skimmer and added water to top off the ponds. Turned out to be a pretty good days, pond-wise. Now for some Tylenol. ~ jan -------------- See my ponds and filter design: www.jjspond.us ~Keep 'em Wet!~ Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website -- \\\|/// ( @ @ ) -----------oOOo(_)oOOo--------------- oooO ---------( )----Oooo---------------- \ ( ( ) \_) ) / (_/ The original frugal ponder ! Koi-ahoi mates.... |
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"Gill Passman" wrote in message ... Koi-Lo wrote: Moments before spontaneously combusting Fred Hall at was heard opining: On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:42:33 -0600, "Koi-Lo" wrote: "Galen Hekhuis" wrote in message ... Lo and behold some of the day lilies and cannas sprouted underwater, and are still surviving today even though the water has receded. (I mostly planted day lilies, cannas, iris, elephant ears and stuff. I'd planted some last year and the deer didn't eat them and they seemed to thrive even with my neglect.) ==================== I've not had luck trying to grow daylilies in wet soil. They seem to like damp soil with good drainage. Same here in Zone 8. Our soil is brick-hard, red clay. Fortunately, day lillies, at least here, will grow and bloom when laid directly on top of the ground. Usually though, I throw a bit of compost on top of them. ================= Brick-hard reddish brown clay is what we have as well. I've dug in tons of compost we make ourselves with the help of a chipper-shredder. For the flowerbeds I also added loads of "bought" cow manure, sulfur, Ironite, sand, bone meal, blood meal and general fertilizers. The soil here is poor droughty gladevill soil. When dry it's like concrete, when wet it's like mustard. We had to totally redo the berm with rebar and cement around our 2000g pond because the sides were collapsing and sinking. Now it looks like the 800g one is next. My experience with Day Lilies is much the same as Fred's is - and my soil is clay as well. I add very little when planting them other than a little bit of compost. =================== Daylilies are one of the few garden perennials that live for us. But without some additions their flowers are sparse and less colorful. Some red clay soils are fertile and some aren't. Our soil is thin, lacks topsoil (with it's organic matter) and isn't very fertile. This was woodland over limestone, mostly limestone. Some people had to have their septic lines blasted out with dynamite. I sure miss that rich black sandy soil I had in NY. It grew almost anything you planted..... -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://tinyurl.com/9do58 ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o |
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"~ janj" wrote in message ... It's time to come back out and play. (I hope) What are your plans for this spring? I know I want to get the out-of-pond in-the-ground filter put in on the lily pond. I'm planning on not draining and sucking the muck out. The weather hasn't been too agreeable so far. No early spring for us like last winter. We thought it would be, as January was so mild, but February turned on the cold and March is hanging on to it. How about you? ~ jan There is still ice in the Pond here. It will likely be May before the fish go back in, more for the sake of the plants then the fish. I see major leafage under the ice, so there will be a big cleanup ahead in any event. -------------- See my ponds and filter design: www.jjspond.us ~Keep 'em Wet!~ Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a To e-mail see website |
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