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Water hyacinths and Hydrilla

By Dub and Deb ——--April 16, 2011

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I don’t know about the rest of you but time literally flies by anymore! My Dad always used to tell me, “Son…whatever you do, don’t get old.” Shoot, he was good at telling me not to do it, but he never told me how not to!
He was telling me a while back, that he’d told my mom, “Ruth, whatever you do, don’t buy green bananas! Git’ ‘em ripe, so I know I’ll have time to eat them!” Both him and her are a mess. Today let’s look at a comment we had, and talk about it for a minute or two. I tell you, if you guys don’t look at the comments from time to time, you really miss out on some good information, and most of it is furnished by you guys. Heck, you know Deb or I either one aren’t that smart, though Deb is the smarter of the two!! Even with that being the case that sure ain’t saying much for her, the poor thing, when you’re stacking her up against me. Yesterday Bonnie from North Carolina wrote, and was talking about water hyacinths, and this is what she had to say….
Can’t wait to try the club soda. Fire ants are a definite problem here now. It’s funny about your “bee lady”. I got the Listerine and dish detergent info from a bee keeper! My dad was a firm believer in DDT and Malathion, and none of us ever had big problems. I guess if I have made it to my “golden years” without insecticide problems it really didn’t have much effect on me. I want to throw another question out there to y’all! I used to live down that way when my kids were growing up. We had a large lake on our property that eventually was almost covered up with water hyacinths. They grew by leaps and bounds. It was a never-ending job to keep them pulled out to even make a path for the boat or swimming. Finally, my dad said he thought he could help with the elimination of them. I told him to “be my guest”! He showed up that weekend with a few large sacks of FERTILIZER, loaded it in the boat and away he went, casting big handfuls of fertilizer over the entire lake. In a few days the hyacinths were large and green, but then they started dying like flies. We had to clear the lake of the “scum” left behind, but for the most part they were dead! I called Daddy. He said he wasn’t sure it would work when he did it, but someone had told him that a good fertilizer would make them grow so fast the little “bulbs” on the leaf stems would out-grow themselves, pop, and croak over. Apparently, the info-giver was right, or…………..was it just their time to go home to “Hyacinth Heaven”? Any comments from you wise Florida crackers?
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Note to Readers: There are a few things that Dub doesn’t know but one thing he does know is that the word ‘Riding’ (as in Riding Out the Recession) is spelled with a ‘g’ at the end.  But Dub not only walks the walk, but speaks like he is: down home, true blue, and plain speakin’ country folk.

Dub and Deb are both native Floridians, live in Central Florida, and run a small business as well. They have five children, and seven grandchildren.

Both love to cook, love to laugh, grow a garden, and generally try to “aggravate” most anyone around them basically…all in good fun, of course!

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