Trip to the pond store!

[peter hillman]

Rode my motor scooter down there this morning. They don't care if you take pics but ask for acknowledgment. I didn't put those ads in the vid. Sorry for the poor quality.

 

[sissy]

do a lot of people have ponds there .We really have no pond stores here i have to drive an hour to NC for one .I live 15 minutes to the NC border .There they have a koi farm .I just noticed a house here 129 thousand dollars and it has a big koi pond in the back yard and 3 porches .Never get there to see your store but sure fun to visit this way

 

[peter hillman]

do a lot of people have ponds there .We really have no pond stores here i have to drive an hour to NC for one .I live 15 minutes to the NC border .There they have a koi farm .I just noticed a house here 129 thousand dollars and it has a big koi pond in the back yard and 3 porches .Never get there to see your store but sure fun to visit this way

Ponds are pretty popular around here but mostly just for the water feature. Our summers are so short it's difficult to have a lush garden unless you work really hard at it. My east neighbor has a 50gal drop in pond with no life and my west neighbor has a huge stream with waterfall into big bottom pool, but it's never seen water?? He's worked on it for ten years and I forget how many times he told me 'next weekend I'm running water!' but still, no water. We have the box stores too Petsmart, Petco. they have pond supplies too.

 

[sissy]

our petsmart and petco have nothing .i am now working with a garden center and started a pond group here so I can help other ponders with extra plants or share info and have provided free fish .Lucky me great source to get rid of the extra stuff .Garden center wants some of the banana plants well I dug up 7 more baby ones this morning and still have 6 in a pot .I also gave them water hyacinth .I have so many banana plants now after only 2 years now .

 

[Dave 54]

Have you thought about koi dealerships @sissy, @peter hillman many of them also sell goldfish and should fit both your needs

Dave

 

[Lisak1]

@peter hillman I love that story about your neighbor! "This weekend..." Most of us could hardly wait long enough to get the liner in before the water was running! People are funny.

 

[peter hillman]

Have you thought about koi dealerships @sissy, @peter hillman many of them also sell goldfish and should fit both your needs

Dave

You mean online?

 

[peter hillman]

@peter hillman I love that story about your neighbor! "This weekend..." Most of us could hardly wait long enough to get the liner in before the water was running! People are funny.

Ya I don't get it, like he's afraid it won't work after all the prep or something I don't know. I don't bring it up anymore.

 

[peter hillman]

Wonder if I could do banana plants in my zone? It's too late this year for anything now anyway, was going to get a hyacinth this morning but only a few weeks left. Even if it 90* today!!!

 

[Mmathis]

Have you thought about koi dealerships @sissy, @peter hillman many of them also sell goldfish and should fit both your needs

Dave

I think that's the problem -- there is no where to go for a lot of us except online. I'm not sure we have a lot of koi dealerships in the US.

 

[Dave 54]

I think that's the problem -- there is no where to go for a lot of us except online. I'm not sure we have a lot of koi dealerships in the US.

I always thought or was led to believe via American AKCA friends that there where @Mmathis however it appears we have the better service numerous fish shops[four in Plymouth alone, two in Saltash] as well as a Petsmart and a koi dealership
Then just in a 40 mile radius of Plymouth at least six more.
Out in the Countryside dealerships koi wise theres ACM koi, The tinkley koi farm, Lostwithial koi and further up the line from Britol upwards there are many others .
It seems the sheer size of your country works against you and the mentaliity of bigger is always better store wise sadly leaves little room for the small Aquatic outlets we know and love here in the UK
Bigger isnt always better as we are finding in the UK with supermarkets killing off town centres in each town and city they now blight .
It will be a very sad day if the aquatic outlets close due to Petsmart and other outlets

Dave

 

[MitchM]

Ponds are pretty popular around here but mostly just for the water feature. Our summers are so short it's difficult to have a lush garden unless you work really hard at it. ....

You have short summers? I thought Reno was a hot, dry place.

 

[Robert Cappiello]

OTE="peter hillman, post: 285801, member: 7851"]Rode my motor scooter down there this morning. They don't care if you take pics but ask for acknowledgment. I didn't put those ads in the vid. Sorry for the poor quality.

[/QUOTE]
Great place...

 

[sissy]

I really don't sell anything from my pond , I give it away and actually my best source was my local garden center and still have people calling me for fish .The bananas I have a cold hardy ones and as long as you give them lots of miracle grow and mulch them they will grow any where .I had friends here from West Virginia last year and i gave them a baby and they now have 10 plants .They wanted them for a hillside garden that would block traffic noise and retain the hill and they are happy they took the chance on bananas .They called me last night about how to divide them so they could do the other side .They told me they went through 5 lbs. of miracle grow and that is normal .They are only going to take 2 of them from the mother plant so they will still have a good amount on the other hill .They said that some of them are about 8 ft tall and that they have a couple of babies about a foot tall .The more water and the more miracle grow the more they grow

 

[peter hillman]

You have short summers? I thought Reno was a hot, dry place.

For 3 months out of the year we're dry, Anything over 95* is considered HOT we may get a few 100+ days but it's no Vegas or Phoenix, that's for sure. I'm sitting at 4580' elevation so we get plenty of winter here. Not recommended to plant vegetables till memorial day, planting seeds probably wont work, not enough time. Last Saturday we had a high of 67, this morning I woke up to 64 expected to reach 95 the high desert is so unpredictable.