Archive for 'Pond'
Posted: March 27th, 2004 by
Frank
Lisa spent the week in LA and took the red-eye home last night. While I was waiting for her, I scooped as much crud as I could out of the pond, and turned the pump back on. We lost all our fish for the second year in a row. We told the landscaper we wanted
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Posted under Algae, Daisy, Fish, Foxglove, Hollyhocks, Lamb's Ear, Lavender, Pond, Poppies, Tractor, daffodils, tulips.
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Posted: March 15th, 2004 by
Lisa
Frank went out today to see if he could see any fish, and unfortunately found them all dead. Damn it. This is two years in a row that they haven’t made it through the winter, and this year we tried a pond heater. I don’t know how it’s going to fit into what is going to be a busy year this year, but we need to re-do the pond, because it clearly needs to be at least a foot deeper to be able to winter over fish. We aren’t willing to bring them in, so I guess there will be no fish this year until we get this figured out.
Posted under Death, Fish, Pond.
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Posted: December 13th, 2003 by
Lisa
We headed over to just north of Concord today to pick up the new bucket for Frank’s tractor. He’s very psyched to get it, and we’re not quite sure how he’s going to get it off the truck and onto the tractor. But that’s a problem for another day — today, we just brought it home. I wanted to give a great should out to the wonders of worm tea. This is the third year on my amaryllis, and this year it’s huge, tall with a very thick stalk, and has triple buds on it. So far, only the one is open, and it’s beautiful. Worm castings are magic stuff. Frank noticed today that the pond heater seems to be doing the trick. There’s a little hole in the ice and snow right where the heater is. I wonder how cold it can get and when the heater won’t be able to keep up? So far so good, though.
Posted under Pond, Tractor, Worm Tea, amaryllis.
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Posted: October 6th, 2003 by
Lisa
With how rainy the weather’s been this year, we’ve really gotten behind on the chores that need to get done before snow flies. We figure the only way we are going to get through them is to work outside after work if at all possible. Today, it was clear and cold, and we didn’t get
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Posted under Bulbs/Corm/Rhizomes/Tubers, Foxglove, Phlox, Planting, Pond, Reviews, Soil, water plants.
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Posted: August 19th, 2003 by
Lisa
The pond is very pretty these days, and very full of algae. The water is clear, but we’re constantly pulling out netfuls of the stuff. I’m sure we’ve got too many animals in there: The nine remaining big fish are twice the size they were when we bought them, (much faster growth than our first
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Posted under Algae, Barley Ball, Fish, Pond, Reviews, water lily, water plants.
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Posted: July 31st, 2003 by
Frank
Or so we think. It hides in the algae (which it’s eating madly) so it’s almost as hard to get a good look as a good picture. There are also half a dozen somewhat larger (two inch) charcoal grey fish in there, none of which we’d seen before today. At the rate the salmon colored
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Posted under Algae, Crazy Daisy, Day, Farm Life, Fish, Lily, Pond, Potatoes.
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Posted: July 25th, 2003 by
Frank
I did some puttering outside the last two nights. Yesterday, I mowed the lawn and hauled in two cartloads of firewood. It’s rotten stuff from ‘96, but we need to do something with it. I also checked out the mushroom beds while I was down there: nothing showing. It’s way too soon, of course, but
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Posted under Compost, Firewood, Lawn, Mushrooms, Pond, Potatoes, Tractor.
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Posted: June 27th, 2003 by
Lisa
The heat wave continues here. It got as high as the mid-90s again, which just saps my energy and keeps me from wanting to do much outside at all. The string algae in the pond suddenly appeared today, from all of the hot weather, I guess. Frank fished most of it out with the net.
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Posted under Algae, Centaurea montana Mountain Bluet, Columbine, Fish, Foxglove, Lupine, Madame Hardy, Pond, Sunny, tulips.
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Posted: June 14th, 2003 by
Lisa
One of the things I got done this Saturday was planting the stuff from swapping that had come in during the week while I was out of town. I got some Monarda Purple Bea Balm in on the side of the pergola by the chives. I didn’t actually need more bea balm, but since I
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Posted under Bee Balm, Cats, Columbine, Compost, Fish, Foxglove, Gardening, Hollyhocks, Lamium, Lupine, Marmalade, Plant Swap, Planting, Princess, Ragweed, Weeding, Weeds, Yoda, astilbe, pergola, water lily.
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Posted: May 17th, 2003 by
Lisa
Of course, it didn’t freeze last night. Our weather station says it went down to 37, so everything probably would have been okay even without all the covering up I did. But since there’s another frost warning tonight, it makes sense to just leave them all right where they are and covered them up just
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Posted under Coneflowers, Cosmos, Day, Delphinium, Fish, Horsetail, Lily, Mulch, Plant Swap, Pond, Weeding, primrose, tulips, water lily.
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