I put together two hanging baskets over the weekend out of necessity.

I picked up some pond weeds from a PB member which did not stay planted on the pond over night. I suspect crawdads uprooted them or maybe some carp that hitchhiked in with the minnows . At any rate, I netted the APW out and hung two baskets from the dock with hopes that they will be left alone to recover and potentially mature to seed the pond.

I drilled about twenty 1/2" holes in the bottom of a five gallon bucket, put a piece of window screen in the bottom followed by a piece of blue jean denim, followed by 3 inches of rich gravely soil. Then, I tucked the roots in the soil and placed some 2" creek rocks over the surface to help keep them in place. I also drilled about ten 1/2" holes around the side of the bucket just a few inches above the soil level so that the bucket would fill up as it was lowered into the pond and not "woosh" all the dirt up.

We'll see what happens.

Fish on!,
Noel