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So what do you think of the idea of a floating garden? Now, Chris, we've all created hanging
baskets. Right. But you hadn't lived until you've done a water basket. What we have is
a floating plant baskets. I just love this. This is amazing. So it's a landscape type
fabric, so we get the water coming through to feed nutrients to the plants and the roots.
Right. And it'll float around the surface. Let's go to work on it because it's really
quite simple to put together, isn't it? Very much. Now, did you want to anchor it with
gravel first, or did you just want to start with the plants? Just start with the plants,
the gravel is just to cover it to keep the dirt from getting into the pots. Well, this
papyrus is fantastic. This is King Tut, and it gets really large now. Nice. Yeah. It'll
love the water. So it will be right in the center here? Correct. Okay, alright, then
would do we do next, just choose some other plants to go on around? Something to go around
the sides. We can do some of the Corus' here. I love those. I love that chartreuse color.
And then next, maybe we throw in some Impatiens? Get some color. Yeah, yeah, I love that. Now,
would you tear the roots in, just like you're growing anything? Just like doing anything,
right. Alright. Like you're hanging baskets or in the ground. Alright, now we got all
our plants in place. That was about as easy a gardening as I've ever done. Now, we just
add a little gravel. Want to take some gravel, it's going to add some weight. Alright. And
keep the plants. Stabilized. Stabilized, and also keep dirt from getting into the pot.
So this is just ordinary pea gravel? Just ordinary river stone. Now, there's not a lot
of nutrient in this gravel, Chris, so what do we do about that? We have a fertilizer
spike. So this is an annual fertilizer, a slow release fertilizer. Oh yeah. And we'll
just put a couple of those down on either side of the pot. Right, right. And we're good
to go. And that's enough to fertilizer it, keep it going, for the entire season? The
entire season. And the idea is for these plants to kind of grow over the edge. Right, that's
what we want to use potato vines for. Right, right. Then if you want to keep it stabilized,
or moored, if you will, to decide you can do that, can't you? Yep, we have an anchor
string over here. Here it is over there. We can tie it in to the side. To rocks, or you
can even anchor it to the bottom. You can use maybe a little fishing string that you
can tie to a rock in the bottom of the pond and keep it out in the middle. That's just
fantastic. I can't wait to add to the ones I already have in my pond now. Let's go at
it. Alright. When planting one of these floating gardens, the plants that are going to do the
best are the ones that don't mind having their feet wet a little. We'll have to see how the
Impatiens do. But the main thing is just to experiment and have a little fun with it.
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