Gotta love Tennessee weather

[Jimmy Gibson]

The first day of summer.....got a late afternoon thunderstorm with 50 mph winds......Sarah and I worked for most of the day getting plants in the pond standing up straight again.....cleaning up leaves....limbs getting the pool and pond clean......so what do we get the same thing this afternoon.....within 10 minutes of the same time yesterday...... welcome to West Tennessee with 94 degrees temperature and 85 percent humidity....Arrgh ....The Koi don’t care they are glad it’s time to eat

 

[j.w]

All looks nice except, boy the wind did a # on those lower plants!

 

[Tula]

Your plants are so lush and green ! Have your koi spawned this year? I caught 16 tiny fry yesterday, so figure that's 16 less to catch in the Great Koi Round Up in Sept

 

[JamieB]

Oh sorry, Mother Nature must have sent you some of our Oklahoma wind!

 

[Jimmy Gibson]

Your plants are so lush and green ! Have your koi spawned this year? I caught 16 tiny fry yesterday, so figure that's 16 less to catch in the Great Koi Round Up in Sept

No......luckily...... I only had three that was breeding size..... but look out next year

 

[addy1]

Everything looks great! even with the wind blow plant hair do.

 

[Jimmy Gibson]

Before anyone critique my ring for trying to keep to see if my hyacinths can be saved...... I made this out of pool noodle, landscape fabric.....some fiberglass screen material....ty-raps and silicone......stuff I had....didn’t even have to go to Lowes ....Sarah’s first comment was “that looked like “sh##”....and I agree....but all these have the roots nibbled off and the balloon bulbs have Koi holes in them......I promised her if they revived I would make something more pleasing to look at.....spent some time getting everything vertical again......it looks terrible now but two weeks time it will look better...... but guess what is coming again...about an hour and a half late today.....lol

 

[JamieB]

Yep, we’ve both got weather jacking with us. Despite only a small rain yesterday, I’m guessing it rained hard north of us cause the river came up 20+ ft to flood again! Insert grumpy face, which means if we can’t get a truck out, I’ll have to ask my mom for a ride. Love her, but not in a mood to deal with her. She’s all about drama.

 

[Lisak1]

Well, I'm glad Sarah said it first - haha! Just kidding... if your ring works, it will be covered by lush and lovely plants and you'll be the money saving genius!

 

[Tula]

A note of caution....I bought floating nets for my pond plants one year. They worked beautifully, I was thrilled....however I looked out the window one day to see one of my koi trapped inside one. Thinking it was a fluke I kept the floating nets in the pond....a day or two later a different koi was in one.

I removed them as I was worried they'd hurt themselves thrashing about and they looked as if they were being served up on a dinner plate to any predators !

 

[Jimmy Gibson]

The first day of summer.....got a late afternoon thunderstorm with 50 mph winds......Sarah and I worked for most of the day getting plants in the pond standing up straight again.....cleaning up leaves....limbs getting the pool and pond clean......so what do we get the same thing this afternoon.....within 10 minutes of the same time yesterday...... welcome to West Tennessee with 94 degrees temperature and 85 percent humidity....Arrgh ....The Koi don’t care they are glad it’s time to eat View attachment 122116View attachment 122117View attachment 122118View attachment 122119

Week one with the “Butt Ugly Plant Ring “.....On top not looking much better, probably worse.....but on the bottom roots are growing back.....so I have hope that they will come around.....but in the meantime the honeybees love my Ugly Ring....there is a constant stream of dozens at a time coming to get water.....for some reason they feel comfortable landing on the plants and then going down to get the water.....needless to say its an experiment.....fun to look at every day.....Jimmy

 

[Lisak1]

however I looked out the window one day to see one of my koi trapped inside one.

I meant to add a similar caution - we took the floating island out of the pond after a few of our koi jumped up into it trying to get some food that had gotten tossed in. Like @Tula I was concerned they would do it when no one was around to get them out again. Just something to keep an eye on!

 

[Jimmy Gibson]

I meant to add a similar caution - we took the floating island out of the pond after a few of our koi jumped up into it trying to get some food that had gotten tossed in. Like @Tula I was concerned they would do it when no one was around to get them out again. Just something to keep an eye on!

I have my net underneath deep enough if even one of the bigger ones got in it.....it would survive until I woke up or got home from work.....might not be happy but would survive

 

[Jimmy Gibson]

Since Sarah and I have to get up so early in the morning for work (3:00 am arrrgh)we have our lights come on in the pond at 2:30 am and so the first thing I do after getting a cup of coffee in my hand is go check the fish......and when I come home I do the same......since our disaster 2 years ago we are pretty diligent

 

[Lisak1]

might not be happy but would survive

Good to hear! It's amazing the lengths a koi will go to for that one little pellet of food! I often wondered if ours would climb out of the pond if any was dropped too close to the edge.