Our retention pond in our neighborhood has a lot of algae and problematic plant growth due to the surrounding farms and lawn runoff, so we’re experimenting with a floating island to pull nutrients out before they can cause problems. This will also provide some interesting flowering plants, and more fish habitats.

Will be an interesting experiment to see what survives and what does poorly.

Zinnias, sunflowers, marigolds, and a few others are in net pots, inserted into cutouts in EVA foam mats.

Design is from:
http://www.beemats.com/

More reading:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/flowers-grown-floating-on-polluted-waterways-can-help-clean-up-nutrient-runoff/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666765723000637?via%3Dihub

    • @[email protected]English
      3•21 days ago

      You’re the only other one than OP piping up.

      Don’t forget all the people that were already too tired from this conversation before even participating in it to pipe up and decided to just click on the down arrow instead. Here I am piping up, though. You should change your ways if you genuinely want to “have a discussion”. You’re very right that you don’t have to do that for anybody here, though! We don’t give a fuck if you ever do find that discussion you’re after. But if that is something you might like in the future you might want to examine the way you go about that. But I get it, it’s hard not to stay defensive once you’ve dug yourself in already.

    • @reattachEnglish
      1•21 days ago

      In case it helps for the future, I also think you came off defensive from the first reply. If everyone but you seems like an asshole, you may want to look at how you’re acting.

      You usually seem pretty positive on here - if you’re having a crappy day, I hope things feel better after a night’s sleep.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•21 days ago

      Hey it might be worth another look… my read was that it was a very nice reply, just above this comment I’m responding to :)