Lotus Repotting Yet?

Jan, that is what James Allison (IWGS) told me in an email
and who better to believe? James said that the Water Garden Journal
will be running articles on Lotus for the foreseeable future.
Autumn 2003 issue had lots to offer those of us who adore Lotus.

Nedra
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4836
http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118

"~ jan JJsPond.us" wrote in message
s.com...
REALLY!!?????? I thought they had to be completely dormant to work with
them? That's what I've always heard and read. We're talking lotus not
lilies, right?


On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 18:19:00 GMT, "Nedra"
wrote:

BV,

I'm delighted to report that we don't have to get in ice cold
water - not yet! You can wait until there are two, maybe 3
leaves floating on the surface before Repotting. This info
is per James Allison of the International Water Lilies group.

Nedra
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4836
http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118

"BenignVanilla" wrote in message
...
Anyone in Zone 6ish repoting Lotus yet? Mine is in it's temporary
rectangle
rubbermaid at the bottom of 3.5 feet of water. I can't get it out
without
getting in, and that just ain't happening for another month or so.

--
BV.
www.iheartmypond.com





~ jan (Do you know where your water quality is?)

"Nedra" wrote in message link.net...

I use plain ole garden soil to plant to lotuses. No sweat -
no strain. The worst of it for me is getting my knees and back
to work in unison to remove the containers.

I have mine planted in 14 inch round plastic dishpans that I
bought at the $$ store. Seems to work fine... and I can lift
them ;-)

Nedra,
This may help you save your back and knees. While I don't grow Lotus,
yet, I also use dishpans, rectangle ones to pot my water lilies. My
daughter Laura told me to put handles on everything I planted in so I
could remove it easier from the pond. With a sissor point or a
screwdriver, I punch a hole in the middle of each of the 4 sides of
the dishpan just under the lip. Then I use heavy gauge(I think #14 or
#16)plastic coated copper wire(no problem with the fish from the
copper that I can see after a year)purchased from Home Depot, and go
from side to side to form one handle leaving it long enough to form a
loop about 3" above the container. Twist the ends back on themselves
a few times so they don't slip out under weight. Form another handle
across the top of the first going from front to back. These two cross
in the center of the container about 3" above the top. The plant will
grow around it. You now have a balanced continer when you try to lift
it. I can't get down on my knees, so my husband made me a lifter
pole. It's a broom handle that he screwed a bicycle hook into the
flat end. To make sure it did not split the pole he put 2 metal claps
around the pole at the end before he screwed the hook into. I can
lift the weight of these pots full of lilies and wet soil, which is
quite heavy with the pole. I can also use it to move pots around in
the pond. And I use the pole to lower the pots into the pond after
repotting. All this is done while 'standing' on dry land. I do the
same thing with all my pots, even round ones, what every type they
are. Works great. On round ones just space the 4 holes evenly apart.
You do need to do 2 handles crossed in the center other wise it
doesn't balance and pots can tip over when being lifted dumping
everything out (been there, done that), not worth the mess to save a
little wire. This old body can't bend too well any more and I could
never climb out of the pond with my knees so I don't get in at all.
Handles work great for me.

Sue W

"Nedra" wrote in message link.net...

I use plain ole garden soil to plant to lotuses. No sweat -
no strain. The worst of it for me is getting my knees and back
to work in unison to remove the containers.

I have mine planted in 14 inch round plastic dishpans that I
bought at the $$ store. Seems to work fine... and I can lift
them ;-)

Nedra,
This may help you save your back and knees. While I don't grow Lotus,
yet, I also use dishpans, rectangle ones to pot my water lilies. My
daughter Laura told me to put handles on everything I planted in so I
could remove it easier from the pond. With a sissor point or a
screwdriver, I punch a hole in the middle of each of the 4 sides of
the dishpan just under the lip. Then I use heavy gauge(I think #14 or
#16)plastic coated copper wire(no problem with the fish from the
copper that I can see after a year)purchased from Home Depot, and go
from side to side to form one handle leaving it long enough to form a
loop about 3" above the container. Twist the ends back on themselves
a few times so they don't slip out under weight. Form another handle
across the top of the first going from front to back. These two cross
in the center of the container about 3" above the top. The plant will
grow around it. You now have a balanced continer when you try to lift
it. I can't get down on my knees, so my husband made me a lifter
pole. It's a broom handle that he screwed a bicycle hook into the
flat end. To make sure it did not split the pole he put 2 metal claps
around the pole at the end before he screwed the hook into. I can
lift the weight of these pots full of lilies and wet soil, which is
quite heavy with the pole. I can also use it to move pots around in
the pond. And I use the pole to lower the pots into the pond after
repotting. All this is done while 'standing' on dry land. I do the
same thing with all my pots, even round ones, what every type they
are. Works great. On round ones just space the 4 holes evenly apart.
You do need to do 2 handles crossed in the center other wise it
doesn't balance and pots can tip over when being lifted dumping
everything out (been there, done that), not worth the mess to save a
little wire. This old body can't bend too well any more and I could
never climb out of the pond with my knees so I don't get in at all.
Handles work great for me.

Sue W

Gosh Sue, you and your hubby.... what a great team!
I'm forwarding this to my inbox so I can have it as I need
to make some handles ;-) Thanks again....

Nedra
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4836
http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118
"Sue Walsh" wrote in message
om...
"Nedra" wrote in message
link.net...

I use plain ole garden soil to plant to lotuses. No sweat -
no strain. The worst of it for me is getting my knees and back
to work in unison to remove the containers.

I have mine planted in 14 inch round plastic dishpans that I
bought at the $$ store. Seems to work fine... and I can lift
them ;-)

Nedra,
This may help you save your back and knees. While I don't grow Lotus,
yet, I also use dishpans, rectangle ones to pot my water lilies. My
daughter Laura told me to put handles on everything I planted in so I
could remove it easier from the pond. With a sissor point or a
screwdriver, I punch a hole in the middle of each of the 4 sides of
the dishpan just under the lip. Then I use heavy gauge(I think #14 or
#16)plastic coated copper wire(no problem with the fish from the
copper that I can see after a year)purchased from Home Depot, and go
from side to side to form one handle leaving it long enough to form a
loop about 3" above the container. Twist the ends back on themselves
a few times so they don't slip out under weight. Form another handle
across the top of the first going from front to back. These two cross
in the center of the container about 3" above the top. The plant will
grow around it. You now have a balanced continer when you try to lift
it. I can't get down on my knees, so my husband made me a lifter
pole. It's a broom handle that he screwed a bicycle hook into the
flat end. To make sure it did not split the pole he put 2 metal claps
around the pole at the end before he screwed the hook into. I can
lift the weight of these pots full of lilies and wet soil, which is
quite heavy with the pole. I can also use it to move pots around in
the pond. And I use the pole to lower the pots into the pond after
repotting. All this is done while 'standing' on dry land. I do the
same thing with all my pots, even round ones, what every type they
are. Works great. On round ones just space the 4 holes evenly apart.
You do need to do 2 handles crossed in the center other wise it
doesn't balance and pots can tip over when being lifted dumping
everything out (been there, done that), not worth the mess to save a
little wire. This old body can't bend too well any more and I could
never climb out of the pond with my knees so I don't get in at all.
Handles work great for me.

Sue W

Gosh Sue, you and your hubby.... what a great team!
I'm forwarding this to my inbox so I can have it as I need
to make some handles ;-) Thanks again....

Nedra
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4836
http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118
"Sue Walsh" wrote in message
om...
"Nedra" wrote in message
link.net...

I use plain ole garden soil to plant to lotuses. No sweat -
no strain. The worst of it for me is getting my knees and back
to work in unison to remove the containers.

I have mine planted in 14 inch round plastic dishpans that I
bought at the $$ store. Seems to work fine... and I can lift
them ;-)

Nedra,
This may help you save your back and knees. While I don't grow Lotus,
yet, I also use dishpans, rectangle ones to pot my water lilies. My
daughter Laura told me to put handles on everything I planted in so I
could remove it easier from the pond. With a sissor point or a
screwdriver, I punch a hole in the middle of each of the 4 sides of
the dishpan just under the lip. Then I use heavy gauge(I think #14 or
#16)plastic coated copper wire(no problem with the fish from the
copper that I can see after a year)purchased from Home Depot, and go
from side to side to form one handle leaving it long enough to form a
loop about 3" above the container. Twist the ends back on themselves
a few times so they don't slip out under weight. Form another handle
across the top of the first going from front to back. These two cross
in the center of the container about 3" above the top. The plant will
grow around it. You now have a balanced continer when you try to lift
it. I can't get down on my knees, so my husband made me a lifter
pole. It's a broom handle that he screwed a bicycle hook into the
flat end. To make sure it did not split the pole he put 2 metal claps
around the pole at the end before he screwed the hook into. I can
lift the weight of these pots full of lilies and wet soil, which is
quite heavy with the pole. I can also use it to move pots around in
the pond. And I use the pole to lower the pots into the pond after
repotting. All this is done while 'standing' on dry land. I do the
same thing with all my pots, even round ones, what every type they
are. Works great. On round ones just space the 4 holes evenly apart.
You do need to do 2 handles crossed in the center other wise it
doesn't balance and pots can tip over when being lifted dumping
everything out (been there, done that), not worth the mess to save a
little wire. This old body can't bend too well any more and I could
never climb out of the pond with my knees so I don't get in at all.
Handles work great for me.

Sue W

Jan, that is what James Allison (IWGS) told me in an email
and who better to believe?

Inform me. Who is James Allison, other than a member of IWGS?

Since I've gone back to work, my pond homework of reading the pond rags has
been put on the back burner. (

James said that the Water Garden Journal
will be running articles on Lotus for the foreseeable future.
Autumn 2003 issue had lots to offer those of us who adore Lotus.
Nedra

Oh my, what I'm missing, I've never even heard of the Water Garden Journal,
how oftened is it published, do you have to be a member of IWGS, etc. ?
Educate me. )


~ jan (Do you know where your water quality is?)

Jan, that is what James Allison (IWGS) told me in an email
and who better to believe?

Inform me. Who is James Allison, other than a member of IWGS?

Since I've gone back to work, my pond homework of reading the pond rags has
been put on the back burner. (

James said that the Water Garden Journal
will be running articles on Lotus for the foreseeable future.
Autumn 2003 issue had lots to offer those of us who adore Lotus.
Nedra

Oh my, what I'm missing, I've never even heard of the Water Garden Journal,
how oftened is it published, do you have to be a member of IWGS, etc. ?
Educate me. )


~ jan (Do you know where your water quality is?)

Jan,
James Allison is the editor of 'The Water Garden Journal'
which is the 'seasonal' publication of IWGS. He's been very
active in the IWGS.
He also has a wonderful book that he authored; it was my first pond book -
called "Water in the Garden". Still my favorite pond book.

Nedra
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4836
http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118

"~ jan JJsPond.us" wrote in message
s.com...
Jan, that is what James Allison (IWGS) told me in an email
and who better to believe?

Inform me. Who is James Allison, other than a member of IWGS?

Since I've gone back to work, my pond homework of reading the pond rags
has
been put on the back burner. (

James said that the Water Garden Journal
will be running articles on Lotus for the foreseeable future.
Autumn 2003 issue had lots to offer those of us who adore Lotus.
Nedra

Oh my, what I'm missing, I've never even heard of the Water Garden
Journal,
how oftened is it published, do you have to be a member of IWGS, etc. ?
Educate me. )


~ jan (Do you know where your water quality is?)

Jan,
James Allison is the editor of 'The Water Garden Journal'
which is the 'seasonal' publication of IWGS. He's been very
active in the IWGS.
He also has a wonderful book that he authored; it was my first pond book -
called "Water in the Garden". Still my favorite pond book.

Nedra
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4836
http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118

"~ jan JJsPond.us" wrote in message
s.com...
Jan, that is what James Allison (IWGS) told me in an email
and who better to believe?

Inform me. Who is James Allison, other than a member of IWGS?

Since I've gone back to work, my pond homework of reading the pond rags
has
been put on the back burner. (

James said that the Water Garden Journal
will be running articles on Lotus for the foreseeable future.
Autumn 2003 issue had lots to offer those of us who adore Lotus.
Nedra

Oh my, what I'm missing, I've never even heard of the Water Garden
Journal,
how oftened is it published, do you have to be a member of IWGS, etc. ?
Educate me. )


~ jan (Do you know where your water quality is?)

James Allison is the editor of 'The Water Garden Journal'
He also has a wonderful book that he authored; called "Water in the Garden"
Nedra

I think I have that one too... or it is one of K30's I'm storing for her.
TY Nedra.

~ jan (Do you know where your water quality is?)