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Journal of events related to the pond and its perimeter. Does not include the pond yard.
11/5/2020 – Bought 500 fathead minnows (to the 500 that were added in February this year) and 100 Shellcrackers from Alabama Fish & Pond truck at St. Elmo F&S. The guy said there were probably 600-700 minnows in their bag. Told him that our Coppernose Bluegills we got from him last February are 5″-6″ long. […]
Continue Reading10/29/2020 – The north and the west ones were all the way over lying to the north. Dug out some of the muck on the south side and stood them up. The south shorter one—south most—only went over to about 45°. Set four new T-posts (i.e. one additional) to support them.
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10/20/2020 – For our 25th Anniversary present for each other we bought three 35-gallon Bracken’s Brown Beauty Magnolias from Oak Hill Tree Farm. 10/21/2020 – Used Frank’s post hole auger to start the holes for the two on the south side of the pond. Made the hole 6″+ larger than the 35-gallon pot. Mary cut […]
Continue Reading7/15/2020 – The change to only early morning feeding is that when they were fed in the PM there was not much activity and then little in the AM. When fed only in the AM they really hit the feed and seem to eat all of the 4 handfuls thrown into a large space around […]
Continue Reading7/25/2020, 7:30 AM pH – 3.2 Alkalinity – 0-40 ppm. Color is between the 0 and the 40 colors. Total Hardness – 25 ppm This morning we bought the API GH & KH Test kit that can provide an alkalinity reading of 17.6 ppm that is better than the test strip of either 0 or […]
Continue Reading6/7/2020 – Tropical Storm Christobal’s winds have begun and cycling from the north to from the east. Threw in 50 more pounds of lime (total now 150 lbs) from the east-side midpoint, around the northern perimeter to the west side midpoint. Throwing hard and high allow the wind to carry the pellets to near the […]
Continue Reading6/3/2020 – This was the 2nd application now totaling 100 of the 200 lbs the pond needs. See here for the first application. Threw about 30 lbs. of pelletized lime on the pond from the mid-point on the east side to the mid-point on the west side going around the north perimeter. The last maybe […]
Continue Reading6/1/2020 – Based on the advice below, began adding pellitized lime to the pond to raise the alkalinity and the pH. Spread 50 lbs: all the way around using the cyclone seeder that threw it out maybe 10 feet. Some landed on the bank and that will be good for it. threw about 30 lbs […]
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5/30/2020 – The pink climbing rose rootings are growing and the Beach Sunflowers are about to bloom in the SW corner of the pond yard. Today, we relocated marigolds and more sunflowers from the vegetable garden to that bed and to either side of the two crape myrtles along the new fence.
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5/28/2020 – Bought 50 Tiger Bass and 4 Grass Carp from Alabama Fish & Pond, LLC who delivered them to St. Elmo Feed & Seed. He said to release the small bass fingerlings (1″-1.5″) into something where they can hide and dart out to feed. Once he understood the pond is new and there is […]
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