BYC gardening thread!!

[dan26552]

You couldn't use fish, because temp and water levels would be too variable to let the fish survive. I wonder if you could use wood chips or mulch. Biggest ? related to that might be if it would go anaerobic in there. If I tried that, I think I'd put a bunch of drainage holes in the bottom of the water reservoir to allow slow drainage of all water.

how is that any different from an out door fish pool?

 

[MeepBeep]

 
You couldn't use fish, because temp and water levels would be too variable to let the fish survive.  I wonder if you could use wood chips or mulch.  Biggest ? related to that might be if it would go anaerobic in there.  If I tried that, I think I'd put a bunch of drainage holes in the bottom of the water reservoir to allow slow drainage of all water.  

how is that any different from an out door fish pool?

Not any different besides the fact the small outdoor ponds are generally deeper but even so they are solar ovens and need to be buried in the ground (to act as a heat sink) put in the shade and have moving water and filters or else they will boil and kill the fish as well... It's recommend that most small outdoor fish ponds be 18" minimum depth, but even that is too shallow IMO...

 

[dan26552]

Wild strawberries.

 

[dan26552]

Not any different besides the fact the small outdoor ponds are generally deeper but even so they are solar ovens and need to be buried in the ground (to act as a heat sink) put in the shade and have moving water and filters or else they will boil and kill the fish as well... It's recommend that most small outdoor fish ponds be 18" minimum depth, but even that is too shallow IMO...

I see.

 

[MeepBeep]

Wild strawberries.

Nice and depressing at the same time as I'm still waiting for winter to release it's grasp so I can get going on the outdoor stuff... I purchased all the stuff to make some vertical strawberry towers a few years ago, never go around to actually doing it, so I might have to spend the next few weeks building them since it's still too early to do much of anything outside yet...

 

[dan26552]

Nice and depressing at the same time as I'm still waiting for winter to release it's grasp so I can get going on the outdoor stuff...

I purchased all the stuff to make some vertical strawberry towers a few years ago, never go around to actually doing it, so I might have to spend the next few weeks building them since it's still too early to do much of anything outside yet...

Thanks. LOL. I never had winter, it was pretty warm this year.

Nice, sounds like a plan.

I'm a bit confused though, I've read and heard all this stuff about how strawberries only last a few years but I have strawberries my dad bought and I planted 4 or 5 years ago and they almost have more berries on them than the wild ones. (Which are a few years old.)

 

[dan26552]

 

[lazy gardener]

Spring has arrived (for the moment) in Maine. Frogs peeping for the past 2 nights. Night crawler orgy on the front lawn last night. It was funny watching the puppy "chase" them! Back into nasty weather Sunday and Monday, with snow expected, and an other cold spell. Stores not even carrying onion or potato sets yet. Buds swelling.

 

[dan26552]

My dad got me bananas!

 

[dan26552]