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Comments (8)I live within 1/2 hour of them and try and get to their open houses. As a master gardner I have been priviledged to meet the owner, Tony Avent, on many occasions and been to several of his seminars. The gardens themselves are fantastic and the green houses are excellent. They are high priced but very good plants. I have not done mail order from them since I do get to go to the open houses so can't give an opinion but knowing Tony Avent the way I do I am sure they are top-notch plants. He is well respected in the horticulural community and known world wide. He and the gardens were one of the subjects on Gardeners Diary a couple years back... Lynne...See MoreFoodie Xmas presents: here are mine, what were yours?
Comments (79)I've loved reading this thread - so many great things. I received a wonderful Masala Dabba from my son and DIL with a spoon for each cup and a large capacity. I'm so happy not to have to search for all the spices used together in Indian dishes. You would understand if you saw how my spices are crammed here and there. Oh to have a whole divided drawer like Cathy's. Max gave me the new Suvir Saran cookbook "American Masala". I've just begun to look at it and I'm looking forward to trying some new to me Indian dishes. From my DIL's parents a fun bag of gourmet food items, sun dried tomatoes, jasmine rice in an airtight glass jar, a box of Gnocchi and much more. And a gift that will go on giving - from my DIL"S brother, a bag of frozen homemade Gnocchi and a LESSON on how to make them. His Gnocchi are really wonderful, I'm so excited about learning to do it from him. He has a handmade board from his Grandfather - I hope that's not his secret to success because I can't get a board like that. I'll take my camera when I go to learn from him. Lee...See MoreMine was GREAT! What about yoiurs?
Comments (11)linda _ in_iowa.....Thanks for thinking of me. I just thought it was interesting this happened in a Park/wilderness area that "I" frequent. I would hope muggers know joggers don't carry money. ;0)...See MoreWhat about this two year-old pond of mine?
Comments (15)UKYankee... Hi, and welcome to the forum! I rebuilt my pond last year, so its less than a year old now. It's roughly the same size as yours. Blanket weed is a big problem right now... previously I used barley straw with great success, but this year it seems to have no effect. Or perhaps the blanket weed would be even worse without it. I'm not too worried though - I suspect that my pond has not achieved a natural balance yet. Probably too many nutrients from the soil with all the new plants I added. It will probably take another couple of years before it settles down properly. I'm currently pulling out great swathes of it by hand regularly, but once the tadpoles start hatching I'll probably just leave it. As for green water, you can try a UV unit, but personally I have had no success with that method. I just got a thick suspension of dead algae instead of a thick suspension of live algae. Maybe I didn't get the right size of filter or UV unit, or the flow rate from my pump was too high or too low. Whatever, it had no effect on water clarity and just increased my electricity bill. So, when I rebuilt my pond, I went with a big DIY filter instead, based on the Skippy filter. Do a web search and you'll find Skippy's site whch has details. It's a "natural" solution, which may suit your philosophy. Takes a lot of space though (compared to commercial filters). Other things to counter green water is to have plenty of plants, especially a) a good coverage of floating ones (or ones with sperading leaves/pads), which will provide shade and therefore reduce algae growth and b) ones which grow rapidly and use up nutrients fast eg. watercress. Again these are "natural" solutions. I buy bunches of organic watercress from the supermarket, and throw it in the open top of my filter where it grows like mad. I buy lots of floating Water Lettuce and Water Hyacinth each year (they die in Winter), and the lily pads help as well. I have water soldiers too. I've had duckweed in the past which worked great, but was so rampant that I had to scoop out a bucket load almost daily. My current fish love to eat duckweed though, so that doesn't work any more (same result with azolla :-P) So far, floating plants and the new filter have kept the water clear, but the real test is yet to come this Spring and Summer when the temperatures rise and we get more sunlight. Well, whatever you do, good luck!...See More- 7 years ago
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