Adirondack looking back at your island pictures I see you used some dirt and peat although not real thick but which would give some filtering to your plants. Even with water loving plants my guess is most of your roots are in the growing medium and very little dangling in the water below your island. If you could take two pictures, one in the spring when planted when some nice white roots might be dangling and then another picture in the fall to see if the roots are black or have rotted off. I have often wondered how pure water plants with their roots only in the water have evolved to survive without root rot, like the Water Hyacinth. Perhaps you know Bill? My island has been frozen in ice and buried snow several times this winter and every time it has thawed so far I have a green mustered spinach plant surviving. It must be really tough.



Last edited by John Monroe; 02/05/13 04:29 AM.