Archive for 'Algae'
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: 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: 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: July 7th, 2002 by
Lisa
Since the stupid shredder still wouldn’t start, we puttered in the yard for most of the day. The window boxes are looking just about perfect right now, though I need to get out there and deadhead the whole lot of them again. I’ve been concentrating on keeping up with the weeding and dead-heading in the
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Posted under Algae, Day, Ditch, Fish, Frogs, Window Boxes, Wine, alium, gazebo.
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Posted: May 11th, 2002 by
Lisa
I could live out in my garden. It’s so pretty, and there is so much work to do! It’s a bit overwhelming, actually. I’m trying no to get too frustrated with it all, and remember that I do enjoy it. Which I do. But everywhere I look, there’s stuff that must be done asap, and
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Posted under Algae, Fish, Gardening, Phlox, Pond, Rhododendron, daffodils, hyacinths.
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Posted: September 22nd, 2001 by
Lisa
The pond is going pretty well. Not bad for our first season, anyway. We seem to have a handle on the algae, anyway. We know we still need more plants, though. Up at the top, in the little mini-stream that runs into the pond, the mint that we planted on one side has shot out
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Posted under Algae, Mint, Pond, water lily, water plants.
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