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Comments (6)So glad the batting worked for you. I love it! I also use natural furnace filters(Lowe's or Home Depot cut to fit bio box) with my batting. I surround the box sides and bottom with furnance filter material, then pad the inside with batting. The furnance filter material catches the large debris and the batting filters the small stuff. Batting is icky when removing to clean but worth the effort. Hint.... I squeeze the water out of the batting and rinse the filters over my flower bed. Nothing like fish poop to keep your garden happy....best fertilizer ever. On the duckweed.... you're fish are probably gobbling it up before it has a chance to grow. I paid around $12 for two big scoops of duckweed, thinking it would continue to produce along with giving my fish an extra veggie. Well, that $12 investment was completely gone in about a week! I've heard you should keep some duckweed in a separate tank then place every so often. Well, my fish now only have memories of duckweed :-) Stuff is too expensive in my area of CT...See MoreGarden On The Rocks:
Comments (29)Rosemarie, Thanks for the compliment, and of course I would love to help you out in the garden. They told me I could have as many rocks as my heart desires, I was right next to the Metro link station by Dana Point and the Life guards told me to take as many as I want, So I help myself to a lot as you can see and I'm about ready to go back for more. hanzrobo,, Thanks, Yeah some of my neighbors really do appreciate the garden and tell me I'm pretty brave to put all them nice plants outside, so far so good tho. Stush, you know how we do it my friend, when were having fun and enjoying ourselves in the garden time flies right by and we just keep dreaming and dreaming :) You guys are all funny with this Verdurus, Farrago business Lol... Rosemarie Let me know girl we can have your whole slate full of rocks in No time at all :) Greg...See MoreStarting to call it quits for the season
Comments (5)I'm a propagater/experimenter, too. In fact, I always check out the clearance rack this time of year with the intention of buying something just to take cuttings, or for their seed. Last year I bought a huge, over grown Alabama Sunset coleus for a $1.00 at Lowes. Actually it was more of a spindly, bush. I took over a dozen cuttings and rooted them over the winter. The following spring I planted 6 and gave the rest away. Right now, I'm checking out everything in my garden in terms of propagation. It's been a very hard summer around here, and its taken its toll, but I've got my rooting hormone, clippers, and a prepared bed awaiting some cuttings. Heather, the way I look at it is that you have nothing to lose, and everything to gain when you take cuttings to propagate. Plus, it's fun! :-) Good luck! Marilyn...See MoreSo much work out there this Spring
Comments (27)I was hating all the rain the past 2 days, but now I am really kind of grateful to put the yard chores off for a bit longer. The big windstorm blew over both of my trellises, but they won't be hard to set upright, unless they are broken (they are at the back of the yard, and I haven't slogged my way back there yet -- still so wet). I don't worry about leaves in the flowerbed since they are very "natural" anyway. But I am behind on pruning already, and I have a rather large quince that I want to take out; the paver patio needs to be scrubbed, it is time to start spraying the fruit trees, I need to make a better trellis for the grapes, finish adding to the height of the fence (#@&* deer), and the garage is a mess. Not to mention that I didn't get the work in the basement done that I had saved for this winter's project....See More
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