Water Hyacinth as Compost
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- Опубліковано 2 гру 2018
- Invasive and evil plant - or underused resource?
Water hyacinth is a great nutrient accumulator and compost starter, as well as a easily used fertilizer.
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search out the floating gardens in Bangladesh. people without land or in floods raft it up and keep piling it till it decomposes and they can grow fantastic gardens on top of the floating mass.
These things are very invasive in Louisiana too. I plan to use a low area of my property as a pond to grow these for the same purpose you demonstrated. I will also chop them up green and use them as a mulch instead of grass clippings. Clippings always have weed seeds that germinate. I anticipate these being a great mulch.
Excellent. They will green up fruit trees, too.
That's the trouble with tribbles! 😆Thanks for all the info on the water hyacinth. 👍🙏
I made a video about this awhile back! I grow tons of them in my pond to get nutrients to my compost
Thank you. I will watch it.
YaY!!! Glad to see you back DtG - hope you and family are great - looking for more!
Doing very well, thank you. About to close on our own land - life has been busy.
@@davidthegood Oh great David - so happy for yall! We'll wait till you have time to come back-take care
Congratulations on the new property!
That floating mass of hyacinth (or water lettuce) is a great and easy source of top-notch bait. The dangling roots are home to jillions of little grass shrimp, crawfish, and insect larvae. Either pick up a clump (be very careful of moccasins!) and shake it out into a cooler or scoop under the root mass with a minnow net, scraping up against the bottom of the raft. You'll have all the bait you need on no time!
That is awesome - yet another upside.
Welcome back! I missed your videos !
Great info on Water Hyacinth. Very cool David.
I'm glad you posted this. I have a ton of these on the lake shore I live on in Tx and I was wondering if I could use them in my garden. I'm going to try it this year.
David, once you get everything situated and going... they will absolutely appreciate what you're preaching. Love your work.
Thank you.
Good to see you back David. It´s a wonderful thing being able to turn a waste stream into profit.
It is beautiful! Good to know, thank you!
Glad to hear your land purchase is in the works. Can't wait for a tour.
"Pond... pool. Pond will be good for you."
Nice treat (your video). OMG - thanks to you - we are harvesting and eating green Seminole pumpkins! Delicious! So easy!
Great! I keep meaning to try that.
I ordered the the Seminole pumpkin seeds because of your books and videos. Then someone said to pick the first green ones to encourage more blooming. You can eat the skin and all. Seeds are even tender. I cut them into little cubes and steam or bake. Also good mashed. Better than any squash I couldn't grow in Florida because of powdery mildew.
Yeah - the regular summer squash always died on my in Florida. Either the white mildew or the borers got 'em.
Also great for animal fodder including chickens!
Water Hyacinth is good animal feed good compost and we can eat it they really need to utilize it instead of just trying to eradicate it
I agree
That is a VERY cool idea : )
Radical!
You’re so smart
Nice to see you again honey🎈
Groovy water hyacinth music 😍🖒
Great idea, in many places local governments are trying to remove these from water bodies. This can be beneficial.
Mine are starting to wither and turn brown, both on the leaf tips and bulb area. Not sure what's going on. You mentioned spider mites, how can I tell if that's what's causing them?
How's your the garden/fruit forest at place going Dave?? Hope the missus and kids are well. From Brisbane, Australia.
We are buying land now - I don't currently have my own food forest going.
Thanks David, such great info about the Water Hyacinth. I'm wondering if this would be a good plant to use either before or after a reed bed in a system to clean gray water, thoughts?
Yes, definitely.
And function as a frog or baby fish nursery.
Wow, outstanding. I've been looking for a better use of these. Recently, the plants on one of my ponds have started turning brown with some strange spider-like net covering them; they're dying. No idea what it is, but I hate losing all those plants.
Sounds like spider mites
Sure it is spiders? Not that stuff they call dodder? Orange yellow or maybe reddish stringy mass?
Material as above are dry,it is also compost
wow I like it in my above ground pond and pay for them every year!
Flowers are edible too
Whats the uses of this
There was another aquatic plant similar to water hyacinth but more in the seaweed family that morag gamble mentioned once but now I can’t find that video she did. Any ideas what that plant is? It was a possible for green manure and it is driving me nuts that I can’t remember or find it. Tia
Or maybe it was fresh water … a tiny plant that grows on top of the water that has a very fast growth rate … smh gotta let it go for now.
Azolla or duckweed
Thank you 🙏
There's water lettuce! It does the same way. And there a small one called Sylvania or spelled similar. . Living in zone 7b I have to bring a start in the winter and hope they survive because it can't be sold in my zone anymore. It has not does like I wanted it to this year.
But I thought I just read the seeds last 30 years- if they survive in compost won’t that make them more threatening?
They don't come back in soil - only in water.
It seems similar to comfrey. But not any healing properties. What do you think?
Yeah, as a nutrient accumulator I would say it's similar.
Thank you. It's been on my mind all day.
A problem in Florida, and in your new country as well, or are you in the US now?
It's only scattered around here - not as bad as Florida.
They are also edible!!
why dont they just remove the mats with some type of aquatic bulldozer?
You said you had no way to get water from the pond. What's wrong with a bucket? I would put a 5 gallon bucket next to the compost bin and when ever you put something in it put a couple buckets of water. Its probably not enough, but it certainly wouldn't hurt.
It's just a pain due to the muck and slope of the sides. Not impossible, but not the easiest. 5 gallons would be better than nothing.
Being lazy and not inclined to fall in the pond (which I assure you I would) my best idea would be to tie a rope to the handle of the bucket, toss it out in the pond, and drag it up the bank.
Because, not only am I lazy, I'm clumsy too and if there is a way to slide down the bank or fall face first in the muck I'd do it...frequently.
How's your corn crop doing?
We harvested and ate it already - it was good. The video I posted recently on planting corn was actually filmed a few months back.
Boomshakalaka!!
Green, Scary, Plants.....
Pass a law?
GEG
"Because of its aggressive growth rate, water-hyacinth is illegal to possess in Florida without a special permit". oh well.
Yes. That makes it impossible.
Apparently it's also edible too
Yes, but causing itching in some people. Seems pretty borderline to me.
Hope you and the family are doing well. Hope to see you on your own land soon. 👍 Living here in Florida I would love to get a few for my small pond and feed it to my worms but if your caught you can get a big fine or arrested. 😱 At least that is what I have been told. Maybe I can pretend to be a snowbird and act dumb. Lol 😉
I know - you're not supposed to propagate or transport it. Chances are, though, no one will notice or care.
David The Good do you still grow water hyacinth in 2020?
Yes, I have a little growing.
@@davidthegood Will may I ask if they flower may I get the seeds. I am trying to cultivate them in buckets for there properties or any way of propagation.
@@davidthegood David may I get the seed?
No - they are a prohibited species in many places.
@@davidthegood I already did my research I know there prohibited but I live in the middle of the city and will be growing them in buckets. I live no w here near a body of water that I will take the seeds of water hyacinth to. I plan to keep them under control and do research to find ways to get them out of water ways.
Will this work with watermeal ?
Yes.
good to see ya - to bad you got small crabs - big are better
These are just slightly too small for making cakes.
Can we feed that to our African Night Crawler sir?
I would think so.
no not crabs
Goats?
We missed you bro, well I did. Invasive plants aren't always bad. But permiscuous woman may be....lol
Yes. Promiscuity only leads to misery. Unless you're corn.