Friday, February 25, 2011

Dayton "Dirt" - February 25, 2011

The seminar tomorrow on water conservation will be of particular interest to me as the nursery uses up to 100,000 gallons of irrigation water on a hot summer day. The water from overhead irrigation is recycled over and over again. The resulting runoff is channeled through a series of ditches and holding ponds that are full of wetland plants that tends to remove sediments and unwanted salts from fertilizer use that would build up in the water and then burn plant roots.

Capturing rain water is another requirement of our water system to insure our supplies are adequate.

Sandy Barbric, an expert about water conservation at home will explain what any one can do to save and capture valuable water for use at home. I always have preferred rain water to a well or city water as it’s nearly pure state doesn’t contain the chlorine or fluorides in city water or the bicarbonates in hard water from a well that can damage plants over time by adversely increasing the ph too much.

Come join us at 11 a.m. on Saturday, February 26th for this amazing program.

Enjoy the winter as it’s going to end soon. I remember years ago when I had a sever case of poison ivy. Dr. Snyder of Barberton would not give me a cortisone shot to alleviate the symptoms as he believed this steroid to be detrimental to long term health. His answer to me was to enjoy the malady and that it would seem to go away faster! So for those of you that are tired of winter, learn to enjoy it!

Tom

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