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Let's talk water hyacinth control
Posted on 5/15/17 at 6:29 pm
Posted on 5/15/17 at 6:29 pm
Currently working on a project at my lease to keep the lilies from blowing into ponds and or ditches we use to get into said ponds. We are tidal and it's a constant battle. And to make matters more difficult we're connected to the river so stuff is constantly rejuvenated, and/or new mats and seeds flow though. Last year was awful, to a point where a lot of my more productive ponds were choked out or not reachable.
So have sunk 2x4s into edges of canals and ran landscape mesh between the post. The mesh is stapled on and then a treated 1x2 is drilled in, sandwiching the mesh between two different boards. Spacing is roughly 8 to 10 foot sections. In the spacing is 1x2s or 1 inch pvc pipe. Do y'all think this will help. Idea is to keep ponds clear. Have it so I have a couple feet in each direction to account for tidal swings. It's 4' peice.
Y'all think this going to work? Just tired of fighting this, few years ago we didn't have any. Noe they're a non stop pest.
Wish I knew how to post a pic of my contraption. Have done a few, but they're pain to get up and a 2 man job. Would love to get some kind of boom with a skirt for some of the bigger areas. One area I have a good bit of broken marsh, where meshing isn't an option.
So have sunk 2x4s into edges of canals and ran landscape mesh between the post. The mesh is stapled on and then a treated 1x2 is drilled in, sandwiching the mesh between two different boards. Spacing is roughly 8 to 10 foot sections. In the spacing is 1x2s or 1 inch pvc pipe. Do y'all think this will help. Idea is to keep ponds clear. Have it so I have a couple feet in each direction to account for tidal swings. It's 4' peice.
Y'all think this going to work? Just tired of fighting this, few years ago we didn't have any. Noe they're a non stop pest.
Wish I knew how to post a pic of my contraption. Have done a few, but they're pain to get up and a 2 man job. Would love to get some kind of boom with a skirt for some of the bigger areas. One area I have a good bit of broken marsh, where meshing isn't an option.
Posted on 5/15/17 at 7:38 pm to Cmk07c
Good luck, my ponds and ditches were choked off with them. I had to bum hunt this past year. We are also tidal, never had any problems until this past season.
Poisoning is too damn expensive.
Poisoning is too damn expensive.
Posted on 5/15/17 at 7:54 pm to chew4219
Not sure poison would even work. Would sink and then new stuff would just blow in. Obviously if it's contained and new stuff can't funnel in then spraying because much cheaper and actually effective.
Posted on 5/15/17 at 8:58 pm to Cmk07c
I know the feeling. We have them bad on our lease. Bout to do a test spray
Posted on 5/15/17 at 10:54 pm to Cmk07c
I know of nothing that can control vegetation on that scale...unfortunately, we now have giant salvinia coming in. I am not confident in the future of the lease.
This post was edited on 5/15/17 at 10:58 pm
Posted on 5/15/17 at 10:56 pm to Cmk07c
We sank 6" pvc and ran floating rope with bleach bottles in between and series's of oil booms (thanks BP), hard south wind and rising water literally pushed them over. We spray we get salvania, we don't spray we have lilies and no SAVs. Need a good hurricane to come knock that stuff back, the freeze didn't do shite.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 7:43 am to Capt ST
We didn't have a single freeze last year, thankfully we don't have salvania where we are at. Man these guys had it easy decades ago before all this stuff invaded. I've seen booms with weighted skirts online but the price quote and amount of feet i would need could end up being a fortune.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 7:51 am to Cmk07c
We use spill boom - works well.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 9:12 am to Cmk07c
Are you guys that are blocking or booming area supplementing it with spray or just boom it and you're done? Most lily mats are gone right now however i would say I still have up to 30 percent coverage in a couple ponds. Obviously all of them have stragglers on the banks. That needs to be addressed because current stuff grows. If you are spraying is it continuous or a certain time?
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This post was edited on 5/16/17 at 6:12 pm
Posted on 5/16/17 at 6:17 pm to Cmk07c
Another pic of finished contraption.
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