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  • From: Victor Guest <vic@daena.eepo.com.au>
  • To: Permaculture WA <perma@eepo.com.au>
  • Subject: Re: hay for algal control (fwd)
  • Date: Wed, 02 Nov 1988 19:48:13 WST

Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 17:06:38 +1100
To: victor.guest@eepo.com.au
From: blward@northnet.com.au (Bruce Ward)


Vic - Straw hay works well with Blue-Green algae, which comes from high
phosphate loads in slow rivers.

Bruce

>>From: Jack Rowe <jackrowe@compuserve.com>
>>Subject: hay for algal control
>>
>>Jack Rowe here... I remember a reference to using hay or straw as an alga=
>>l
>>control in ponds, but can't remember anything else about it. Do you know
>>about this -- where it comes from, what kind of hay or straw, amounts, et=
>>c?
>>
>>Thanks, =
>>
>>
>>Jack
>
>Jack the straw was Barley. I don't remember what it specifically
>controlled. It was used in conjunction with Marron in a pond which had
>high levels of phosphate.
>If you need more information than this I'll ring my friend in the country.


Bruce Ward
Holistic Results Pty Limited
PO Box 984
Inverell NSW 2360
AUSTRALIA

Ph (02) 6721 1105 - from outside Australia dial +61 2 6721 1105
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  • Re: hay for algal control (fwd), Victor Guest, 11/02/1998

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