permaculture

[lfl@intrex.net]

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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