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26 Jul ’14 - 7:14 pm
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Was looking through some old pics, this was a couple years after we put it in, grass going down to the water

or what it has become today

this debate is going on in our household right now

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the first pic looks like a golf course water hazard.  second pic looks like the ducks have made the pond area exactly how they like it.

 

if erosion isn't a problem, i'd probably prefer the second pic. keeping the pond looking like pic #1 is a full time job.  i worked grounds at a golf course when i was in high school and it took chemicals and constant reseeding to keep water hazard areas looking nice.

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28 Jul ’14 - 7:06 am
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that's a good point, I think we are just going to clear out some of the cat tails a little but leave a majority of them, amazing how much the trees have grown in 5 years, the little one to the left in the top pic is the cherry behind the fence in the bottom

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My personal choice would be picture 2.

 

The cattails are an amazing resource.  If you were planning on putting in any swales or moving water around the property, you can harvest the nutrient rich cattails and drop them in the uppermost swale.  As they decompose, they will deposit their accumulated nutrients which will be carried along your landscape feeding your trees and plants.

On Geoff Lawton's first farm, he planted cattails in his bottom pond and would routinely harvest a third of them, drop them into his top swale and just keep recycling the resource.

 

The growth around your property has been incredible.  It looks great!

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good call, yeah, it's amazing the difference in 5 years

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28 Jul ’14 - 7:55 pm
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Mine would be half and half. I am a swimmer and it is really nice to have a grassy area to get in. But also nice to have the wildlife and food sources. 

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29 Jul ’14 - 7:57 am
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agreed, it's the deep end that is overgrown, I think my wife is going in today to clear some of it out

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A deck is nice

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