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  • From: Paul Wheaton <paul@richsoil.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Floating Gardens (wide shade trees)
  • Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 07:40:18 -0800 (PST)

Do you know of a web page that can tell me more about doing this?

--- DAVIDMATTHEWEDGE@aol.com wrote:

> Paul, you wrote:
>
> What would be the impact of a floating swamp garden on the oxygen exchange
> in the water?
>
> Here's the beginning of an answer:
>
> In addition to the gaseous exchange of the plants in a floating swamp
> garden, which could vary depending on species, partial shading of a pond,
> by
> anything, causes movement and additional oxygenation of the water.
> Cool water in the shaded areas flows to the bottom, surface water is
> drawn into the shaded area to replace it, etc. In this way much more of
> the
> water in the pond comes into contact with the air than in a pond in which
> all of
> the water is exposed to sunlight or is shaded.
>
> Thes floating gardens also mean that much more edge, that many more bugs
> for
> the trout, etc.
>
> I hope this is useful.
>
> David Edge
>
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