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overgrown root system
My friend has a 32" deep pond. The lilies have taken over. Now the
roots are taking up 24"'s of the pond. Any suggestions on how to get rid of the roots without killing the fish, frogs and everything else? Thanks, Dave |
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And I would add to Derek's post, re-pot in containers, so they're easier to
remove/divide next time. Sounds like his pond needs a good bottom cleaning before fall anyway. ~ jan My friend has a 32" deep pond. The lilies have taken over. Now the roots are taking up 24"'s of the pond. Any suggestions on how to get rid of the roots without killing the fish, frogs and everything else? On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:18:11 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: Not really, at this point. Any digging is going to be hard on the fauna. Dig up one lily at a time, prune/divide it (be brutal - these plants are obviously so healthy, you don't need to pussyfoot around them), replant it and let the water clear before doing another one. In future, pull & divide every year - it took a bit more than a year for them to get that dense! ~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~ |
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~ jan JJsPond.us wrote:
And I would add to Derek's post, re-pot in containers, so they're easier to remove/divide next time. Sounds like his pond needs a good bottom cleaning before fall anyway. ~ jan Oh, and I'd add to that - experiment with potting media. I had great success with leaving my lilies bareroot. I wired them into milkcrates filled with rocks. Then they're _really_ easy to divide. If you get the weight of the rocks right, they actually float to the surface when they're ready for dividing, because the bouyancy of the foliage defeats the weight of the rocks! You can pot in kitty litter (needs washing well), or gravel (difficult to get a shovel through to divide them). Forget soil, though. They just don't need the extra nutrients. -- derek |
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