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My Setups
For information on the maintenance of these ponds, see my pond newsletter page which has copies of previous monthly newsletters that cover the happenings and chores at my ponds in detail.
For more photos of these ponds, see my pond pictures page.
I hope to eventually have the time to move each of these ponds to its very own page! This page is way too long! I did finally move the basement pond to its own page but need to do them all. I just do not have the time.
50 gallon Rubbermaid Tub Pond - now extinct
The Final Chapter:
This pond has been destroyed by me. All of the living plants and animals in this pond were
moved into the 50 gallon lotus tub temporarily until a new 153 gallon liner pond was completed
for them. Everything below is information from the past.
Picture of my 50 gallon pond, taken 4/12/98. The things floating on the surface are toad eggs and some parrot's feather.
Previous Physical Aspects
Built late summer, 1996.
50 gallon plastic rubbermaid tub in full sun, buried.
90 gph Beckett pump, exits through a frog spitter - pump died on 9/12/97, replaced with an
OASE (Aquarius 1) of similar strength. Pump removed and de-icer added during winter.
The sides began to collapse more and more so that by 1999, I decided to replace it with a 153 gallon liner pond.
Previous Inventory
Fish:
Constantly changing. In 1997, I had about seven fathead x rosy red minnows born spring 1997 and their dozens of offspring which I moved to the large pond for the winter on 9/11/97. In summer of 1998, I had a few dozen white cloud mountain minnows and longfin zebra danios that developed from eggs I took from my 20 gallon tank inside. I intended to sell most of these fish to an aquarium store, as much as I wanted to keep all my "great-grandchildren" (they are progeny of fish born in my tanks). The store reneged and refused to take them so I had to find an alternative. This pond was clear to the bottom (my big pond was only clear about 3 inches down until September when it too was clear to the bottom; it has been clear ever since then!)!
In late September, 1998, I removed danios and white clouds from the pond into my 5 gallon tank inside. I collected 20 longfin zebra danios and 8 white clouds. In December, 1998, they moved into a 40 gallon tank with their parents and a plecostomus.
On 10/4/98, the 50 gallon pond was cleaned out to get the last 4 white clouds. Besides them, the pond had plants, hair algae, a hundred or so green frog tadpoles from tiny to legs forming, a male green frog starting to go into hibernation, and a huge bullfrog fully in hibernation. These all went back in after the bottom was shop vacuumed. The female bullfrog was a yucky brown, squished down, eyes closed, and no "meat" in her tummy. She kicked a few times and went back to sleep. It is important not to clean the ponds too late. I should have done it a few weeks sooner but there was no time! If it were not for the tropical fish in it, I could have skipped the fall cleaning.
I added the mosquito fish from my two tub ponds beginning in late October. As of 10/18/98, 103
mosquito fish were in the 50 gallon pond. The sides were beginning to collapse in so I began
planning a small (turned out to be ~153 gallons) lined pond to replace it when the pond falls
apart.
Spring 1999: I occasionally saw a fish but the pond seemed devoid of life. As you can see under
my 50 gallon Lerio tub pond inventory, only a single female
mosquito fish and her fry survived the winter. Either they ate each other or predators got them
because the pond never froze with a de-icer present.
Other animals:
Green frogs from the big pond visited. Plus, there were insects and microorganisms present.
When I cleaned the pond out on 9/11/97, it was full of leeches and tiny ramshorn-like snails as
well as lots of baby minnows. The bottom half of the water was black. In April 1998, the pond
had a trillion toad tadpoles (toadpoles I call them) and at least one salamander larvae. By June
1998, I saw just one salamander, a number of tree frog and toad tadpoles with legs (some were
leaving), and a pair of green frogs. The male let me pet him! See above for the frogs I found
when cleaning the pond out in Fall 1998.
In the spring of 1999, a pair of green frogs and a solitary common toad (as opposed to the many
American toads that breed in my 1800 gallon pond) took up residence.
Plants:
A small litter pan was planted with anacharis, bacopa, cabomba, foxtail, and hornwort. Only
anacharis and hornwort survived to be moved to the 50 gallon Lerio tub pond.
Parrot's Feather was planted and thrived under and above water despite the deer constantly
ripping it out and eating it.
I tried water hyacinth but the deer always ate it so it stayed in the big pond.
I put in some small frogbit and some mosaic plant (Ludwegia sediodes) for the summer in
1998. They died off before winter.
A pot of sweet flag was added in Summer 1998 when I divided my one plant into 7 huge
plants!
Added in the Fall of 1998 from other ponds = hornwort, salvinia, duckweed, and water celery
(supposed to be neptunia).
Picture of the little pond, taken on 11/6/97 with lots of leaves in it.
Picture of this pond, taken 9/4/00 with parrot feather in it.
16 gallon liner pond - cleaned and re- filled on 3/31/10.
Physical Aspects
Built 9/6/97
~16.5 gallons in shade
45-mil EPDM liner, piece left over from big pond
Granite from property
Pond for birds, frogs, insects, and deer
Inventory
Animals:
Whoever shows up. A mosquito dunk prevents many insects though. I think I saw some sort of
large beetle larvae in there 8/98.
On 8/22/98, I noticed a lot of mosquito larvae since I was out of mosquito dunks. The beetles
apparently do not eat them. So, I put in 5 mosquito fish from my tub pond. I never saw them
again except for one in early 10/98 that froze come winter. Perhaps the crows or raccoons ate
them. Oh well, I had plenty. There were fewer mosquito larvae too. By 1/13/99, this pond had
been frozen solid for a few weeks.
On 7/12/99, a lone newly adult spotted salamander (from inside) was put in the pond a day after
the pond had a total cleaning. The week before, the pond had been full but with no rain in
months and thirsty deer, the pond was empty in under a week.
By fall of 1999, there were no animals in this pond except a few young green frogs.
The animals present in the pond vary day to day. There have been mosquitoes, beetles, mosquito fish, young green frogs, and rat-tailed maggots (drone fly larvae) at various times. Deer drink from the pond regularly as do neighborhood dogs and cats. When I cleaned out the pond on 9/2/00, I removed two green frogs who had wandered over as well as a two inch bronze goldfish; surprise! There must have been eggs on the parrot feather I put in.
For 2001, I poured in some water from a local pond that was full of daphnia and tadpoles. I netted out daphnia every once in a while to feed to my fish elsewhere. The daphnia did really well there. I tossed in food every once in a while but I really do not know what they were eating! I shop vacuumed out the pond and replaced the mucky water on 10/14/01 and saw no daphnia left.
Amazingly, in 2003, I discovered daphnia in the pond! I had shop vacuumed it out at least 4 times since I put them in and yet here they were; some had survived! In August, 2003, I put water hyacinth in this pond that happened to be full of goldfish eggs! I netted out 17 of them on 10/12/03 which I put into my basement pond until spring.
Plants:
All die so I stopped adding them since it is too shady and the deer eat them. On 9/5/98, I dumped in some of my excess salvinia and creeping primrose that I would have just dumped to die anyway. Since then, I continue to dump my excess plants in there for the deer to munch. Any surviving plants die over winter when the pond freezes solid.
On 7/11/99, a ton of excess primrose creeper, a few anacharis, some parrot's feather, and a small piece of watercress were added to the pond to make the salamander added on 7/12/99 more comfortable.
In 2000, I put in a bunch of parrot feather (with eggs apparently). I put nothing in for 2001 but should have.
I shop vacuumed and refilled the pond on 8/4/02. Then, I added some excess water lettuce and one water hyacinth which the deer will eat.
On 8/10/03, I filled the entire pond with excess water hyacinth and a few water lettuce.
I did not put any plants in this pond in 2004 until 8/29/04 when I put in about a dozen water hyacinth. A whirligig beetle came along for the ride too. The deer ate most of the plants. There are few baby green frogs back there. On 11/21/04, I vacuumed out and refilled the back pond and found no animals.
I clean (shop vacuum) out this pond about four times a year. I did so on 4/29/07.
On 3/24/08, I cleaned out the back pond. It was full of 16 gallons of wet, stinky leaves. I used my bare hands to pick up that slop and toss it. Running three hoses and a 100 foot extension cord back there, I was able to rinse, vacuum, and repeat until it was sort of clean. I refilled the pond. The rocks have really collapsed in as has the liner over 11 years. I would redo the pond except it is so far from the house, and I let it "go wild" anyway, only cleaning it a few times a year. There are no plants or animals back there aside from whatever bugs might be there.
I cleaned out the back pond on 4/1/09. Ewwwwwwwwww! Ditto the above.
I cleaned out the little pond on 3/31/10.
See my Pond Showcase page on this pond.
Note: This tub pond was previously referred to as being 20 gallons but when I emptied it on 3/20/05, I realized it says "12S" on the bottom which means a 12 gallon squat pot.
This pond is currently (3/26/05) not being used and was not set up past that date.
Physical Aspects
Set up May, 1998, not buried
20 gallon tub, half filled with dirt, topped with pea gravel or sand, and then water
About 5 gallons of water
Pond emptied and refilled with fresh dirt, pea gravel, and plants on 5/10/03.
Inventory
Animals:
1998:
Mosquito fish - a few adults and fry (total of 14) moved (10/11/98) to 50 gallon rubbermaid tub
with de-icer for winter
Green frog tadpoles - in July, 1998, a pair of green frogs laid their hundreds of eggs in the lotus
tub which seems pretty dumb to me since their tadpoles grow to 2 inches, and the tub only has
less than 10 gallons of water in it! I rescued many dozens and put them in my 1800 gallon
pond. The remainder were moved to the 50 gallon tub for winter.
1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003:
No animals except frogs coming and going.
Plants:
1998:
Charles Thomas purple lotus, flowered Summer 1998. Dead 1999. Must not have survived the
freezing winter since the pot froze solid.
A few pieces off my snowflakes in main pond, hornwort (moved to other ponds for winter 1998),
and duckweed.
1999:
A ton of baby regular cattails sprouted. I tossed them out and put in some parrot's feather and
primrose creeper which went crazy all over the yard.
2000:
I decided to try a lotus again. This time it was a Momo Botan lotus. The lotus flowered three
flowers in July and four more in September! Some of it was moved to a 5 gallon pot in the 1800
gallon pond on 10/8/00 so it will not die. It would freeze solid in the tub pond.
2001:
On 3/25/01, I repotted the Momo Botan into this pond and topped it off with some nice pea
gravel. I used sand the previous year and that was always a cloudy mess! So far, so good! I also
added some new parrot feather and pennywort to this pond in early July, 2001. By 8/29/01, this
lotus put out a record six blooms! All the seeds turned out infertile! On 10/28/01, I removed
about half a dozen of the tubers and put them into a 2 gallon pot topped with pea gravel that I
sunk into my 1800 gallon pond for the winter. The tubers were deep and smaller in diameter
than previous years. For the first time in its four-year history, this pond did not have any tadpoles
in it. For some reason, the green frogs did not want to lay eggs in it this year although a male
hung out there.
2002:
On 4/14/02, I moved the Momo Botan lotus tubers from the pot in the main pond to the tub
pond. By early June 2002, the lotus had died. We had some near-freezing temperatures after I
put the tuber in the pot and only one piece grew and then turned black. Next spring, I will try a
new lotus but of course, I will miss the one I had for two years. For now, the pot just holds some
insects, duckweed, and a green frog who hangs out there. On 6/16/02, I was in the main pond
and found that the large lotus was sending out runners all over that had jumped the pot. So, I cut
one off. I stuck it in this 20 gallon lotus tub pond since the Momo Botan was dead. The tuber
with one leaf and a root section kept floating up so I put a rock on it to hold it down. This lotus
is a large one but for one season, it may be okay in this pot. Time will tell. I added a few pieces
of primrose creeper (the deer kept ripping it out of the main pond) and a piece of frog fruit (the
raccoon kept ripping it out of its pot in the main pond) to this tub pond too. On 11/3/02, I potted
the lotus into a 4 gallon pot and moved it to the big pond for winter. All the other plants in this
tub had long since died except a little forget-me-not.
2003:
I bought a new yellow American lotus for this pond. There is also a sprig of parrot feather and
duckweed. I redid the tub pond from scratch. The sludgy dirt was full of old rotted lotus tubers.
Fresh
dirt, fertilizer, and pea gravel brought the tub pond up to an inch from the rim so only an inch of
water
lies over the new lotus (oops, too shallow!!). The poor lotus did not survive more than a few
weeks.
It never put out a single leaf! The pond is certainly boring with just duckweed and parrot
feather!
2004:
I got a Chawan Basu lotus and added it on 4/23/04. I did not redo the pond for the new lotus.
As of 5/14/04, the lotus is doing pretty well despite having virtually no water over the crown.
The first leaves are supposed to float but they are above water. I hope it makes it! Here is a photo of the lotus in the tub on 5/21/04. As of 7/7/04, the lotus has a few
good leaves, a few stalks where the deer ate the leaves, and no buds. In early September, I was
shocked to find pink petals on the ground! I missed the flower, my first in years! It was hidden
in the butterfly bush so I never saw it. On 10/18/04, I potted some of this lotus into a 3 gallon
pot and put it into my 1800 gallon pond for the winter to try to overwinter it. You can read more
about it in the November 2004 newsletter.
On 3/20/05, I emptied this tub and put it up. I give up on not having lotus do well.
20 gallon tub pond - on 3/31/10, cleaned three days earlier.
Photo of the tub pond following its cleaning on 3/29/07.
Photo of the tub pond following its cleaning on 3/30/06.
Photo of the tub pond with water celery and extra lilies, 8/11/99.
Photo of tropical tub with taro, duckweed, and water poppy, 9/25/98.
Physical Aspects
Set up May, 1998
Above ground
20 gallon Lerio tub, half filled with dirt, topped with pea gravel, and then water
About 10 gallons of water
Redone on 5/11/03 with fresh dirt, pea gravel, etc.
Inventory
Animals:
1998:
Mosquito fish - 6 adults and dozens of fry and their fry, surviving 91 moved to 50 gallon
rubbermaid tub with de-icer for winter by 10/18/98.
1999:
In late May 1999, I added a dozen or so baby white clouds to the tub. There are also many green
frog eggs and tadpoles. Beginning in October of 1999, I began moving dozens of tadpoles to the
50 gallon lotus tub for the winter (to be later moved to the newest pond) and moving white
clouds into my basement pond (9 were moved by 10/24/99).
2000:
No animals.
2001:
Green frog eggs and tadpoles. I did not put them there! I moved all 200-300 of them to my 1800
and 153 gallon ponds on 10/16/01.
2002 and 2003:
No animals. I did add 3 female and one male guppy to the pond on 5/17/03 from the basement
pond
but the temperature dropped, killing them all within days. Tropical fish do not always do well
outside
especially when it is almost summer but the weather is like early spring! On 6/7/03, I put in 12
newborn zebra danios from my 40 gallon tank but I doubt they will make it. I never found any
that
made it.
2006:
I put wood frog eggs in the pond in March and they started to hatch in early April. By late May,
they are getting big.
2007:
I did not add any animals. The frogs did not lay any eggs. That spring, a lot of daphnia appeared
in that pond. On 9/29/07, I put some of the water under a microscope. The pond had a lot of
seed shrimp which are larger than daphnia, move fast, and look like clams with hair around the
edges. I also saw what I think was a copepod swim by super fast.
2008:
So far, there are no animals except a few leeches.
2009:
I put a few wood frog tadpoles in there at the end of March.
Plants:
1997:
Colorato blue tropical lily that the mosquito fish ate so much that it died and never set out a
floating leaf even. I do not put lilies in tub ponds anymore.
1998:
Neptunia (they said it was but it looks like water celery to me!!), water poppies, green
taro, anacharis, hair algae, and duckweed. I tried to overwinter some taro and poppy inside. The
taro made it but when I moved it back outside to the tub, it died!!!
1999:
Water celery, cuttings from my repotting of Albata, Comanche, and Chromella lilies (put out
small leaves but no flowers), hair algae, and a few miscellaneous plants from my other
ponds.
2000:
Water celery. Also, water lily leaves are still there amazingly.
2001:
In 2001, I redid this pond from scratch with fresh dirt and gravel to again be at least a partially
tropical pond. To it were added a white snowflake, a dwarf cattail, an unknown lily (mentioned
above), a green taro, and a dwarf papyrus. So, it is a partial tropical tub with some hardy plants
as well. I got rid of the invasive water celery in the pond itself. The water celery now covers the
ground all around the pond! In July, I added an orange canna as well which did not amount to
anything. I will try to overwinter it so it might do something next year. I brought in the green
taro, dwarf papyrus, and orange canna on 10/7/01. The papyrus and canna were potted into one
gallon pots and set into the 20 gallon basement pond. The taro was too big with four huge
leaves. It was potted into a two gallon pot and topped with gravel. I will add a little water daily
to keep it waterlogged but it is not in a pond.
2002:
On 4/30/02, I put the taro back outside into this pond. It was in bad shape with aphids all over it
and three wilted leaves. The pond also has water lily leaves and lots of dwarf cattail. On
10/13/02, I used a lot of force to get the now huge taro out of the tub pond. I potted it into a two
gallon pot and put it in my basement pond for the winter.
2003:
I bought a new lily (Indiana, orange changeable, small kind) for this tub pond which I redid with
fresh
dirt, pea gravel, etc. on 5/11/03. I added the green taro kept in the basement pond to this pond
on
5/17/03. On 5/29/03, I added a dwarf papyrus and variegated tropical water canna that arrived.
With
the cold, rainy weather, the lily is barely alive and the other three tropical plants I think are dead.
By
7/31/03, I can say for sure that the only thing alive in the plant kingdom in this pond is the new
lily (not
doing great, no flowers) and duckweed.
2004:
On 5/5/04, I added the last of my regular tropical taro and two tropical water cannas from the
basement that I overwintered. As of 5/14/04, they are not doing so well!! As of 7/7/04, the deer
keep uprooting and eating the canna. The taro is barely alive as well. I should give up! On
10/10/04, I pulled out the tiniest pieces of taro and canna left. The canna was stored in damp
sphagnum moss and the taro potted into a one gallon pot and put into my indoor tub pond for
winter.
2005:
On 3/20/05, I emptied this tub pond out. It was a real cesspool. On 3/25/05, I put in a one gallon
pot of one of my water lilies repotted from my 153 gallon pond (I do not know which variety)
and a one gallon pot of either blue or purple flag iris also repotted from my 153 gallon pond
which I elevated up on a brick. I was tired of having the tub pond half full of dirt topped with
pea gravel. With the deer and shade, nothing has grown well in there for so long that I give up
on that. I figured putting in plants I would have tossed anyway would not make too much
difference. Since they are potted, the pond will stay cleaner. On 3/26/05, I put in a half a bunch
each of hornwort and anacharis. It turned out that this all wasn't a great idea as every other night,
the raccoon knocked over these pots and filled this pond full of dirt. Somehow, the wood frog
tadpoles survived all that and are growing. Update on 6/2/05: The iris is doing okay. After
repeating un-pottings by the raccoons, the waterlily is barely alive. The wood frogs (who are
growing legs) and daphnia continue to do well.
2006:
On 3/30/06, I repotted the 1 gallon pot of iris and put in a new 1 gallon pot of a hardy
waterlily. On 4/23/06, I added in a bunch of anacharis and half a bunch of hornwort for the wood
frog tadpoles to munch on. By 6/1/06, the iris is getting ready to bloom. The raccoons knocked
it and the lily over so many times that I actually cannot find the lily tuber at all so it is basically
dead.
On 10/29/06, I bailed this pond out. I put the 200 some green frog tadpoles, wads of anacharis, wads of hornwort, and a few snails into my 153 gallon pond for the winter. I put the pot of iris back into the pond and filled it back up. The lily was no where to be found, the pot empty with potting media all over the bottom.
2007:
On 3/29/07, I repotted the one gallon pot of iris in this pond. It is set up on a few bricks. I
changed the water. On 9/3/07, I pulled some yellow flag iris out of my 1800 gallon pond since
I had too much of it and needed room. One bare root (jumped the pot) chunk, I stuck bareroot
in the 20 gallon tub pond. It is just sitting there. I dare the raccoons to un-pot this one! It is
huge and, of course, has no pot!
2008:
On 3/23/08, I cleaned out the 20 gallon tub pond. I used my OASE pond vacuum to suck out
most of the gunk and dumped the rest. I found one empty pot (rocks all over the bottom), one
tiny piece of sweetflag, and the huge mass of yellow flag iris. It was free (not potted), and I left it
that way. It was so big that it actually fills up half the 20 gallon tub! I cut off some of its roots
and dead leaves. I figure since the deer and raccoons will not let any other plants live, I might as
well enjoy the yellow flag iris. It should flower for me. The animal inventory of this pond
consisted of a single leech I found (not saved).
On 4/12/08, I put some java moss from my 50 gallon tank (too much of it) and the floating fern and duckweed from my 5 gallon tank (which I tore down) in to the 20 gallon tub pond.
2009:
On 3/22/09, I cleaned out the 20 gallon tub pond. All that was in there was the huge mass of
yellow flag iris which I returned after changing out the water. On 4/1/09, I added some extra
purple or blue iris from the 153 gallon pond bareroot to the 20 gallon tub pond.
2010:
On 3/28/10, I cleaned out the 20 gallon pond. That involved lifting out the 30 pound mass of
yellow flag iris and then shop vacuuming out the water. I do not think there was anything living
in there and saw nothing special. That was until I used the shovel to cut the iris up and almost
cut a green frog in half! I put the guy in the 153 gallon pond. I removed some extra roots and
otherwise cut the yellow flag iris mass in to about two equal parts and tossed one of those. I put
the few bricks back with the bareroot yellow flag iris back in and filled the pond back up.
See my Pond Showcase page on this pond.
I have moved this pond to its own page here.
2000:
In July of 2000, I placed a 2 gallon Lerio pot, which I normally use to pot up marginals, inside of
a stone pot with goldfish on it. To this, I added excess parrot feather, water poppy, water forget-
me-not, and duckweed. Later, mosquito dunks were added to keep mosquito larvae from using
it. The parrot feather took over, and the raccoon used it as his/her personal wash basin. My
outdoor cat thought it was a great place to drink.
2001:
I did not plan to set it up for 2001 but ended up putting some hardy canna (Thalia
dealbata) in it that my mother bought since I already have it in my main pond. I also put
in
some duckweed and a piece of pennywort. On 10/28/01, I just plopped this "pond" into my main
pond for winter. The Lerio pot was stuck in the planter though! I will not put "pot-busters" in
this pond again. "Pot-busters" are plants like hardy canna, iris, cattails, and sweetflag that warp
pots in a single summer with their large tubers or rhizomes trying to "escape" the pot.
2002:
My mother wanted me to set this "pond" up again for 2002 so on 6/29/02, I put in a tropical
yellow water canna (I know; it's a pot buster too!) that I had bought three days earlier. I filled
the pot half way with dirt, put in the canna, and topped with pea gravel. I also put in some
frogbit
(a floating plant) from my 50 gallon tank. It is not doing very
good especially since my cat chewed it up while it was waiting inside. It finally put out a few
more leaves. I put in a small fake pink water lily. The frogbit died off but some duckweed
started
to grow. The raccoon washes his hands in this tub pond
almost every night and spills out half the water!
The canna bloomed in August. Here are two photos of the flower taken on 8/25/02.
Yellow canna in 2 gallon pot pond with the pool behind it.
Close up of yellow canna flowers.
The canna was moved inside for winter on 10/5/02 and put into my 20 gallon indoor tub pond. It did not survive.
2003:
I did not particularly want to set this pond up again but I got a free tropical canna with a plant
order. I put it into a 2 gallon Lerio pot and put that into the fishy container. I wonder what color
it is. IF it blooms, I will find out! By 7/31/03, it is getting so huge! No flowers yet though. The
flowers opened on 8/15/03. They are orange and yellow! So beautiful, I was surprised. Here are
some photos. On 9/10/03, the plant sent up another flower spike!
Canna flowers on 8/16/03.
2-gallon pot pond with flowering canna on 8/16/03.
I removed the canna, cut it back, cut the roots up into 12 rhizomes, and stored them in slightly damp sphagnum moss for the winter on 10/26/03. See my November 2003 newsletter for more details. It was no easy task!
2004:
On 5/5/04, I moved a tropical black taro that I overwintered in the basement to this 2 gallon
pond. Every night since, the raccoon has uprooted the plant and dug the gravel all around! I do
not think the plant will take it much longer! Then, the raccoon did not hurt it as much, and it
grew until one day, the deer ate it all! I stuck the root back in and moved it further onto the deck
where it came back to life somewhat. By 10/10/04, the black taro was doing pretty good out of
reach of the deer. I pulled it out of the pot, repotted it, and put in into the basement for the
winter. Due to a lack of room in the indoor tub pond, it is sitting by itself with some water in the
two gallon pot. In that condition, it lost all of its black color and looks like regular taro!
2005:
On 5/8/05, I put the black taro back out in the 2 gallon pot "pond." It is alive but not in great
shape. As of 6/2/05, it is still alive but the raccoons un-pot it virtually every night so it is not
really growing! On 10/16/05, I moved the taro inside for the winter. I had to sort of repot it
since the raccoons had dug around in it. Plus, to get it out of the ceramic? pot, I had to pull it out
of the Lerio black pot, warp that pot to get it out of the ceramic pot, and then repot it.
2006:
On 5/10/06, I put the black taro into the pot pond. It is nearly dead from aphids. I sprayed it with
Pyola. By 6/1/06, it is starting to recover. By the time I brought the taro inside for the fall and
winter on 10/8/06, it was doing really well.
2007:
I put the taro out in the pot on 5/8/07. The next morning, the raccoon had dumped it out of the
pot so I had to try to stick it back in.
See my Pond Showcase page on this pond.
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