[permaculture] Plants for nitrate/phosphate uptake

Paul Cereghino paul.cereghino at comcast.net
Sun Oct 21 22:41:01 EDT 2007


When I was working at an urban nursery in Seattle the Racoons LOVED the 
water hyacinth... don't know if this is a reliable problem but forwarned 
before you spend much...  There are lots of small rapidly reproducing 
floaters... Genus Lemna, Azolla are ones I know.  If you buy any 
commercial water plants they will likely come with them, but if not you 
might consider finding a quiet corner of a local pond and scooping up 
anything green and floating.. in fact get some muck and water to seed 
your system for good luck as well (thank you Mr. Hemenway)
I loaded a PDF onto the wiki that might apply called "The Use of 
Reedbeds...":
http://www.permaculture.info/index.php/Category:DOCUMENT
-Paul Cereghino

roxann wrote:

>Thanks Keith. I like the trench idea. I'll be working with ferrocement to freestyle my ponds and trench shapes so I should be able to do this easy enough. Hyacinths! yes, that is the one i was thinking of. i used to live there and these are very problematic for boaters and pond owners out there. since they can't survive our winters, they shouldn't be a problem species here if some escape my ponds. i think they are very good themselves for nutrient uptake. i'll check all the plants i use before and after they've been in place for a while to see who's the best. i'll have a greenhouse, so i can overwinter some in there in a metal stock pond with some fish. 
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>this is all beginning to formulate into a plan, thanks y'all!
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>Roxann, NW AR
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