sissys pond

[j.w]

Yum nice fresh black berries! I love to just eat them right off the vines. Looks like your lotus is growing nicely and look at all those koi.Did you bring any home w/ you?

 

[sissy]

no more koi just looking at all the pretty ones he had for 4 and 5 dollars and some of the small ones were a dollar .I have the 2 lotus tubers but the guy i got the tubers from had lots of seed his wife saved .So he gave me a couple .

 

[sissy]

thought I would include up date on 2400 gph laguna pond pump and 2900 gph laguna on watt tester and pics of my lotus and my banana plants and this guy has been hanging around here all morning

 

[sissy]

not bad when the 2400 gph one says use 100 watts and 2900 gph uses 130 watts .I guess both had hit there sweet spots .I had the 2900 gph down to 95 watts with the 1 1/2 hose but wanted the water fall spitters so had to go back to the 1 1/4 inch hose to give it enough up flow on them .

 

[j.w]

Such a pretty little bird and he does seem to love your geese

 

[sissy]

he was up by the pond drinking water in the waterfall then he sat on the bridge watching me water my plants and then cleaned and filled the bird bath so he took a bath I had to then refill it .I then filled the bird feeder so he had lunch and then went over to the geese to sing a song .I have never seen a cardinal so close .He is still out there sitting and I am down by the basement with the chop saw going making another basket for a cancer survivor friend of my sisters .She loved my sisters baskets .She was down at Duke last week and got another clean bill of health .

 

[sissy]

any one that may need a uv sterilizer topdog sells on ebay has the odyssea turbo twist 18 watt for 31 .75 .Turbo twist means the water spends more time exposed to the uv .Had to get one for my 300 gallon stock tank for new fish for people who built a pond all wrong and had leaks and sick fish .Sorry but they used 6 mil plastic for a 3000 gallon pond .Why would they do that ,because the guy at the garden center said it would work it didn't .Sad people do this to there customer just to sell fish and plants and pumps to them to make money and now they have stressed out fish and some sick ones .

 

[sissy]

sorry it was 37.75 for it .Call came in when i was posting and forgot to change it to the right price .Friend I knew since 88 past away .She worked in the Danville post office with my sister and her hubby .

 

[Tula]

Sissy,
do you use the stock tank to qt fish? I just passed on an opportunity to purchase a nice koi, as I didn't have any means to qt it. Do you have to filter it etc? Oh well, I can always plan for the future.

 

[sissy]

I have a pump in a crate of lava rock and a crate on top of that with quilt batting in it and the hose goes up though the middle of it all ..I just make sure the second crate is out of the water enough to catch the yucky stuff .I have a 300 and 2 -150 gallon stock tanks .300 gallon stock tank has a 230 gph pump and 150 gallon ones have 100 gph one in each one

 

[sissy]

last year and this year .Not sure why I did get as much growth as last year .The black elephant ears are just starting to come up and it is almost the end of July .Same elephant ears and cannas from last year to this year .That polar vortex really effected everything .I had lots of butterflies last year and hardly any this year and lots of humming birds last year and only a few this year .Hardly any yellow finches this year also

 

[addy1]

Same here Sissy, even the non honey bees seem to be in short supply. We have very few yellow finches, usually they are everywhere.
My butterfly bushes are just now blooming, usually by now they are huge.

 

[sissy]

my butterfly bushes just started to bloom also .I really don't have as many flowers blooming this year at all .The daylilies are usually full of flowers but have maybe 1 or 2

 

[nikkijac]

hey guys, how do you post a thread? I have no idea. lol

 

[addy1]

hey guys, how do you post a thread? I have no idea. lol

go to the forum you want to post in and click post a new thread, type away.

Sissy my day lilies are beautiful this year, all with massive amounts of blooms, whole yard smells sweet. But my veg garden sucks this year.