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  • From: lfl@intrex.net
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Pasture Renovation and Fertility
  • Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 22:34:13 -0700

Claude Genest wrote:

permed@nor.com.au wrote:
Don't recommend introducing water hyacinth - can completely overtake the
surface and difficult to eradicate - floating water plants are rampant
and difficult to control -

It depends on the body of water you introduce them into. If you need to clean the water, they will do it; to control them just harvest periodically. If they are in a large enough impoundment to make harvesting difficult or impossible and the water has a constant influx of nutrients then it might be wise not to add them. For small ponds or pools or constructed wetlands they are ideal, though not cold hardy in US zone 7 without protection. Anacharis and water hyacinth are an ideal combination to clean up impounded watershed runoff. They make very fine mulch and fertilizer; algae too.

I noticed in "The Power of Duck" how the author uses a floating boom to keep
floating water plants in a contained area - I guess the same boom also makes
it easy to haul in the plants for harvest and use as primo mulch....

Claude

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