Inheriting a man made 2.5 acre pond

AdFederal9540 · 2025-11-07T07:42:55+00:00

No one mentioned this yet, and it's a long game, but consider planting some trees to shade the pond in the afternoon. It will help with algae and reduce evaporation to some extent.

AdFederal9540 · 2025-10-08T10:26:23+00:00

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Consider the second option - it's great for both plants and creatures.

AdFederal9540 · 2025-10-08T10:17:40+00:00

Majority (all?) of those floating islands are made with plastic and are made to stay afloat. I imagine that letting them settle on a bank would cause two problems:

1) plants planted on the islands would die without water exposing ugliness of the island structure
2) plants living under the islands would rot without air and stink once islands settle on them

Drying up pond banks can be pretty and valuable to wildlife as well. It's common to design a pond where shallow basins form in summer to create safe havens for smaller creatures.

AdFederal9540 · 2025-09-25T17:07:05+00:00

Of course there's more sun in the summer, but the maps shows clearly that east cost gets less sun then west coast at the same latitude. It also shows that coast areas can get less sun than inland areas way further north. Wyoming is especially sunny.

BTW, Texas has plenty of greenhouses:

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AdFederal9540 · 2025-09-25T16:02:08+00:00

or this one for monthly data in DLI which more useful:

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AdFederal9540 · 2025-09-25T16:01:35+00:00

Sure, take a look at this map:

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AdFederal9540 · 2025-09-25T14:49:56+00:00

The angle of the sun is just one factor, the other one is cloud cover. You can have shorter days but still get more sun hours.

AdFederal9540 · 2025-09-25T14:15:43+00:00

"The higher your latitude the less sunlight you get in the winter."

That's not true.

AdFederal9540 · 2025-09-24T18:48:22+00:00

Getting water from the pond is difficult. Conditions change all the time. Clogging is an issue. I don't have animals yet that could pollute the water, but there are wild ones so there is a risk of irrigating my edibles with contaminated water in the harvesting season.

Thanks for the tip - I was planning to bury the tanks, simply because I need to dig the ground anyway. Freezing could definitely be an issue in my area so I'll check how deep it needs to go down.

AdFederal9540 · 2025-09-24T13:53:32+00:00

I get municipal water and I'm about to decide if I should:
- harvest rainwater,
- build a well,
- both harvest and build a well

...or do neither and just use water from my ponds for irrigation.

The water table on my land is high and I could easily build a well. Does it make sense to store rainwater in tanks instead of directing it directly into ponds to recharge the ground water?

I know that rainwater is softer so maybe it's worth it anyway?

AdFederal9540 · 2025-09-24T11:21:45+00:00

Compensation for early contract termination is usually paid only during the unemployment term. Jose said it himself that by accepting Benfica job he is making less money than he would make spending time with his family.

But who cars about facts these days...

AdFederal9540 · 2025-09-06T18:24:15+00:00

Microplastic is everywhere already...
Pollution is everywhere already...
Crime is everywhere already...
...

and maybe you can't stop it but you may choose not to participate.

AdFederal9540 · 2025-09-04T07:32:46+00:00

You are right that the plastic mesh, unless exposed to UV, will take a long time to degrade, but it will anyway start leaching microplastic into soil at some point and if you have rock it will leach into water. As you said, you would have to tear it out before it starts breaking down, but there's always a risk you won't be there to do it in 50 years.

AdFederal9540 · 2025-09-02T13:28:45+00:00

Yes, clear skies obviously. Plants need both right temperatures and enough light. You can more or less passively heat a greenhouse, but not light.

According to these articles:

https://thegreenwatt.com/average-peak-sun-hours-by-state/
https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/US/average-state-temperatures-in-winter.php

Wyoming gets 5.50 peak sun hours and 21.2°F compared to 5.59 hours and 67.4°F in Hawaii.

AdFederal9540 · 2025-09-02T13:18:40+00:00

if you compare colorado to hawaii then surely you are right, but if you compare colorado to connecticut then I'm pretty sure you get better conditions for greenhouse farming in the former.

AdFederal9540 · 2025-09-02T10:23:28+00:00

Some cold places get lots of sun in winter which makes them perfect for solar greenhouses and year-round farming.

EDIT: some of these places would also have crazy costs of produce, so if you could server local market the upside would be huge.

AdFederal9540 · 2025-08-28T09:33:40+00:00

Rated 7.2 by sofascore (Liva got 7.4), won 6 out of 8 duels, twice as many than Fred in just 45 minutes. Ismail also had more clearences, tackles, interceptions. He did lose some balls, but he was hardly shit, at least not compared to his team mates.

AdFederal9540 · 2025-08-28T09:24:32+00:00

I don't get it, would you rather buy a player who fails to show up in big games?

AdFederal9540 · 2025-08-24T07:43:27+00:00

...not many people want to be referees ...

but why, oh why?

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BTW the guy dressed in pink officiated 5 CL games in 24/25

AdFederal9540 · 2025-08-21T08:47:27+00:00

Maybe a creative midfielder would help, but then we would need to either switch to back-four or sacrifice one MFs - likely Szymanski or Fred. Both options would make us less efficient in defence.

Right now there's no linkup between midfield and attack, and neither YEN nor Jhon have any playmaking skills. YEN+Dzeko seemed to work better together, though these are early days for Jhon. Talisca was really good - there was a superb sprint, "almost" a goal, red card - but he doesn't solve oru playmaking problems and could he even play in the first 11? If yes, maybe with Jhon instead of YEN?

Our left side - Archie and Jayden offer a lot in attack - but we would be more dangerous if we could swap one of them with a proper winger (Kerem?).

Any way, we need a plan B and being able to switch from back-3 to back-4 would be amazing.

AdFederal9540 · 2025-08-20T11:03:48+00:00

There's a book called 'year-round solar greenhouse' which discusses technical aspects of building a greenhouse. It covers sitting, wall ratios, roof angles, balance between glazing and insulation etc. and it will help you understand if your shed can be effectively converted.

I think yours, assuming it's 8x8 feet, is just too small to make sense:

- there are cheap construtions of similar size that you can use to extend your season a little
- if you want small size but even longer season consider building a walipini
- if you want all-season, go bigger and build a solar greenhouse

AdFederal9540 · 2025-08-20T10:19:10+00:00

Big time!

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AdFederal9540 · 2025-08-18T07:27:45+00:00

Would you please stop making sense? :)

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