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RE: Mac Nut topping on beds - missydog1 - 04-02-2011
I must have some potent weeds, because mulch doesn't deter them at all. I used to mulch in California.
I put down landscape cloth in the vegetable garden about three years ago, and covered it with mulch/bark nuggets. What a waste. The cane grass came up and tore the cloth to shreds. Heavy black plastic is about all that stops these weeds, the thick kind. But I hate gardening with plastic as it's impossible to add fertilizer to the drip zone when it's covered by plastic. That's why I tried the cloth.
I have dirt though. Seems to produce tougher weeds than when I had a lava under-layer. In Hilo I had lava underneath like what there is in lower Puna. I just pulled the weeds by hand. Any kind of mulch or compost biodegraded so fast that it was too expensive to buy it.
RE: Mac Nut topping on beds - hikatz - 04-03-2011
Made this offer before did not generate any interest!
We have algae from the freshwater pond which makes a great compost. No contamination or the limu 'ele'ele which also grows in the pond would not survive.
My husband usually takes a truckload weekly to the Hilo landfill compost section.
Anyone interested and willing to help him, it would have to be on a weekend as he works during the week. By himself it usually takes him about 3 hours with 2 people takes about 1 1/2 hours.
The algae is free, and he will help you load your truck.
RE: Mac Nut topping on beds - Kapohocat - 04-03-2011
Hikatz, we could come and help and take some!
Our koi are eating every shred of green in the pond and we are now feeding them lettuce and veggies, although they are not fond of the cuban oregano, or basil clippings.
We planted 50 water lilies and they ate them so fast - gone in about 5 days - roots and all.
And i know this is sacrilege but we put in one water hyacinth, and no chance of it spreading invasively, they ate that one plant overnight.
RE: Mac Nut topping on beds - hikatz - 04-03-2011
Kapohocat,
Years ago, this pond was so stocked with fish and koi, the algae was kept under control, now it has become a problem!
Call 935-0906 and we can set it up. If you rather try a bucket of algae first, we could have it ready and you could pick that up during the week.
hikatz
RE: Mac Nut topping on beds - missydog1 - 04-03-2011
What a nice offer, hikatz.
Cat, those koi do indeed eat the water hyacinth. I couldn't keep one alive with them either. After you adopted, I got a new ONE, and that one has now covered the pond. The two large goldfish don't check it the way the koi did.
It's not sacrilege to put a hyacinth in so long as the plant can't escape to a waterway. They are very useful plants for keeping down the algae and they are oxygenators. But such breeders! They smothered my poor water lily.