Device for fertilizing lilies

[K]

Anyone have a link for the plans to that device, I think it was made
from PVC pipe and you could jam it into the lily pot and fertilize
without getting IN the pond?
Also, somewhere with it, there was something about not having to use
the pond pellets but adapting regular fertilizer.
All my old links are dead. Anyone have current information?

Thanks!

[Lee Brouillet]

Sorry 'bout that: I never answered your original question. I think this is
what you meant: http://www.perigee.net/~jrjohns/web20.html

Lee

"K" > wrote in message
om...
> Anyone have a link for the plans to that device, I think it was made
> from PVC pipe and you could jam it into the lily pot and fertilize
> without getting IN the pond?
> Also, somewhere with it, there was something about not having to use
> the pond pellets but adapting regular fertilizer.
> All my old links are dead. Anyone have current information?
>
> Thanks!

[Lee Brouillet]

Sorry 'bout that: I never answered your original question. I think this is
what you meant: http://www.perigee.net/~jrjohns/web20.html

Lee

"K" > wrote in message
om...
> Anyone have a link for the plans to that device, I think it was made
> from PVC pipe and you could jam it into the lily pot and fertilize
> without getting IN the pond?
> Also, somewhere with it, there was something about not having to use
> the pond pellets but adapting regular fertilizer.
> All my old links are dead. Anyone have current information?
>
> Thanks!

[Wendy Kelly Budd]

Excellent idea! I might be tempted to just put in one tab at a time, but
this works for me. I'm always concerned that when I shove/stomp on a fert.
tab that I might be breaking roots apart.
--
Wendy* in N. California,
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite
you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man." -- Mark
Twain


"Lee Brouillet" > wrote in message
...
> May I offer a new/different idea? One of the members of my local "club"
> takes a piece of pvc pipe and drills the bottom end full of holes and puts
> it in his lily pots when he transplants. I think he said he uses 1" . . .
> the pipe is about 12" above the pot surface (and maybe 6" below), and he
> stuffs it full of fertlizer, then puts a PVC cap on the top to prevent the
> fertilizer from backflowing into the pond (you can paint it black, if you
> want to). It feeds his lilies for the whole season without the
> algae-inducing "rush" when plants just have a pellet or two shoved under
the
> surface of the dirt. He swears by it! And it works a lot easier than the
> tool you're thinking of. That one works fine in the beginning of the
season,
> but as the plant grows and the pot becomes root bound, it gets harder and
> harder to jam that fertlizer into the pot.
>
> For a cheap lily fertilizer, buy generic fruit tree spikes and cut them
into
> little pieces. Alternatively, if you can find them, Jobe's Tomato Spikes
> also work.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Lee
>
> "K" > wrote in message
> om...
> > Anyone have a link for the plans to that device, I think it was made
> > from PVC pipe and you could jam it into the lily pot and fertilize
> > without getting IN the pond?
> > Also, somewhere with it, there was something about not having to use
> > the pond pellets but adapting regular fertilizer.
> > All my old links are dead. Anyone have current information?
> >
> > Thanks!
>
>

[Wendy Kelly Budd]

Excellent idea! I might be tempted to just put in one tab at a time, but
this works for me. I'm always concerned that when I shove/stomp on a fert.
tab that I might be breaking roots apart.
--
Wendy* in N. California,
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite
you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man." -- Mark
Twain


"Lee Brouillet" > wrote in message
...
> May I offer a new/different idea? One of the members of my local "club"
> takes a piece of pvc pipe and drills the bottom end full of holes and puts
> it in his lily pots when he transplants. I think he said he uses 1" . . .
> the pipe is about 12" above the pot surface (and maybe 6" below), and he
> stuffs it full of fertlizer, then puts a PVC cap on the top to prevent the
> fertilizer from backflowing into the pond (you can paint it black, if you
> want to). It feeds his lilies for the whole season without the
> algae-inducing "rush" when plants just have a pellet or two shoved under
the
> surface of the dirt. He swears by it! And it works a lot easier than the
> tool you're thinking of. That one works fine in the beginning of the
season,
> but as the plant grows and the pot becomes root bound, it gets harder and
> harder to jam that fertlizer into the pot.
>
> For a cheap lily fertilizer, buy generic fruit tree spikes and cut them
into
> little pieces. Alternatively, if you can find them, Jobe's Tomato Spikes
> also work.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Lee
>
> "K" > wrote in message
> om...
> > Anyone have a link for the plans to that device, I think it was made
> > from PVC pipe and you could jam it into the lily pot and fertilize
> > without getting IN the pond?
> > Also, somewhere with it, there was something about not having to use
> > the pond pellets but adapting regular fertilizer.
> > All my old links are dead. Anyone have current information?
> >
> > Thanks!
>
>

[K]

"Lee Brouillet" > wrote in message >...
> May I offer a new/different idea?

Hey, that's a great idea! Thanks!