On 20/10/07 16:31, in article
, "Don H3"
wrote:

On 19 Oct, 03:45, Sacha wrote:
snip

Thanks for all these, David. I've made careful notes! Today, Matthew and
Greg have drained the pond, leaving just enough water for the fish and are
hauling out barrow loads of the plants. The problem now will be to find
enough tanks to over-winter them in the greenhouses! When I think that I
saw just one place selling the water hyacinth for ?3.95 each..........!


Saving one plant would be adequate. Would be too much! I bought one
(species unknown) at a department store Garden Shop from a know-
nothing clerk. In a wet window-box it became 6 plants in barely a
month, at which point I sought pics on the WWW and id'd it as "Water
Lettuce." I gave away all but 1 and isolated it in nested tall plastic
pots in a 20 gallon (75 Liter) aquarium. It DESTROYED the aquarium: 1
plant. All kinds of whitish crud exuded under and at the leaf-tips.
When I started emptying the aquarium to clean yesterday, I found it
had partially dissolved the bottom of one plastic pot, in less than a
week!! It now lives (or dies) in a 2 liter pop bottle* with a dead
Avocado. I should put it back in a wet window-box and give it's babies
to my worst enemies.~}

(*) I cut clear/de-labeled 2 liter pop bottles most of the way around
at the part where the top-curve ends: Instant flip-top micro-
greenhouse. Hmm. Maybe too much light on the roots is what killed the
Avocado though.


Yes, it's enthusiastic, isn't it?! ;-) But we can sell these - or some of
them next year. When the danger of frost is past out they'll go.

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'