MC, I'm 99% certain your Fish Fertilizer is Fish Emulsion. NPK, 5-1-1 is the same. What its size? Ounces? half or full gallon? It looks large. One of my FE is Alaskan, but much smaller than your container, without a handle. Yes, FE has an odor... :) FE killed a scale-infested Olive tree received from an online nursery, and citrus branches on either side of Olive. I spray FE in autumn, as a preventative before plants come indoors. While spraying leaves for insects, FE also acts as a foliar feeding. It's also used like any other fertilizer.. Add water, then fertilize soil. Toni PS. Odor lasts 2-3 days indoors.

laura - on the ones I saw, it was palm leaves cut to shape. I would expect them being all recycled yard stuff! The palm leaves have a hard brown section near the trunk - I was going to try cutting some of that to shape. I didn't end up buying one, just too much & it's pretty basic. The ones I saw were neon or bright spray paints w/ squiggles of glitter paint even. I thought this was an excellent way to use up the little tubes of leftovers I have everywhere. Sadly, I'm flying back to NY tonight, but I'll work on them there. That's where all my supplies are anyway, just need to find coconuts! lol Anyone know if Michaels or AC Moore or any craft store carry coconut shells? I'd like to toy with some until I get back in 3-4 weeks. Maybe I should pack some in my suitcase since their FREE here... I'm sure airport security would love that! lol

Probably. We have a pond with three pools separated by weirs. About four years ago, I cleaned our pond removed; everything and scrubbed. We purchased about a dozen $0.26 feeder fish. Only four survived the winter. The next spring I did some minor repairs and started the pump. It ran about two weeks, and then I shut it down as we took a long vacation. When we returned from vacation we had hundreds of babies, in all three pools. From the first four that survived the winter we have about 70 fish in the three pools today. The original four are over 8" long. They reproduce every spring.

Northern Pike tastes fine if it has been prepared properly. It is easily ruined, however. As a deterrnet measure, Pike carry glands under their skin that are inactive until the fish is in the throes of death. When the fish is dealt a death blow or wound, these glands release a foul tasting, fishy oil, that permeates the flesh. What to do: Immedaitely after the fish has been killed, it must be skinned within 5 minutes. If this is done, the meat will rival perch, but if not done, it will have a bitter, fishy flavor. Often, the tail piece is strong tasting anyway.