Comments on: Pictures of My New Urban Water Garden http://www.greengardenista.com/blog/pictures-of-my-new-urban-water-garden/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:18:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Amy http://www.greengardenista.com/blog/pictures-of-my-new-urban-water-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-7548 Amy Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:15:22 +0000 http://www.greengardenista.com/blog/?p=768#comment-7548 Crystal, I have mosquito issues in my area as well. There are just too many gutters, potholes, and poorly graded areas that collect the insects. The good news with water gardens is that once you add the goldfish, they will eat any mosquito larvae in the water as soon as it appears. Goldfish spend a huge amount of their time checking over every pebble in the pond for food, and during the warm seasons you can skip feeding them for a day or two per week to encourage them to hunt water bugs for you. They make water gardening guilt free, which is why I love them! Hope you find a way to work a water feature into your own yard or balcony garden. Green Gardenista Crystal,

I have mosquito issues in my area as well. There are just too many gutters, potholes, and poorly graded areas that collect the insects. The good news with water gardens is that once you add the goldfish, they will eat any mosquito larvae in the water as soon as it appears. Goldfish spend a huge amount of their time checking over every pebble in the pond for food, and during the warm seasons you can skip feeding them for a day or two per week to encourage them to hunt water bugs for you. They make water gardening guilt free, which is why I love them!

Hope you find a way to work a water feature into your own yard or balcony garden.

Green Gardenista

]]> By: Crystal http://www.greengardenista.com/blog/pictures-of-my-new-urban-water-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-7547 Crystal Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:14:16 +0000 http://www.greengardenista.com/blog/?p=768#comment-7547 Very unique approach to having a water garden in an Urban area, and it looks great! The biggest problem we have in my region are MOSQUITOS, as D.C. Metro area is so humid and if you've got standing water anywhere it doesn't take but a milisecond for the mosquitos to take over. I can even keep water in my Bird Bath, so that's a real downer. Very unique approach to having a water garden in an Urban area, and it looks great! The biggest problem we have in my region are MOSQUITOS, as D.C. Metro area is so humid and if you’ve got standing water anywhere it doesn’t take but a milisecond for the mosquitos to take over. I can even keep water in my Bird Bath, so that’s a real downer.

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