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To Compost or Not to Compost
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Derek Broughton wrote: You don't. I probably wouldn't do that in a little barrel either. Bare-root planting is for ponds with healthy fish populations. The fish produce the fertilizer, and the plants get it more easily if they're not in soil. State of the art 1904 thinking. Innes would agree with you. But we've come a long way since then and proper plant nutrition needs much much more tha fish waste. They will *grow* to be sure, but they will grow much much better with proper food. Oh, crap (literally). Your opinion, while interesting, has been disproved. In the past fifteen years we've figured out how to make those heavily planted crystal clear tanks full of fast growing plants like only the dutch used to do. IN a nutshell what was missing was the things NOT in fish poop. Innes also contended "fish fertilize plants" and ferilization was "a noble but foolish experiment". He was wrong, as we've learned, but he did write that in the 1899-1904 timeframe when he wrote his pond and then aquarium book. I had a not very heavily populated 5000 gallon pond. My deep lilies would, every year, develop sufficient foliage to lift the tubers a foot or two off the bottom of the pond. We're talking about 18" or longer tubers, with 100sq.ft. of pads, and dozens of blooms. If I could have made them grow better with "food" I'd have to have been nuts to do it! Ok, so you think you're nuts, but the point still stands. With proper feeding they'll do *better*. Do you actually have a pond Richard? I _know_ you're an aquarium expert, but I seriously doubt your pond experience. Compost is NOT a good idea for a planted _fish_ pond. I wrote about my pond in some back issue of TFH a few years back. I Was thinking of doing a few more which is why I'm here. -- Need Mercedes parts? http://parts.mbz.org Richard Sexton | Mercedes stuff: http://mbz.org 1970 280SE, 72 280SE | Home pages: http://rs79.vrx.net 633CSi 250SE/C 300SD | http://aquaria.net http://killi.net |
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