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

    • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
      121·
      6 months ago

      Look, you may not have intended it to come across that way, and I get that, but it does. I’m not trying to be mean to you or anything; we all have blind spots in communication because we can only see what we intend to say, and not how it comes across to others. I’m not involved in the conversation and that’s how it came across to me, and probably all the people downvoting you.

      They are doing a thing following specific research that they are aware of and probably spent a lot of time on, and know they should be able to reproduce. As such their very first reply to you was them telling you they aren’t interested in expanding their project at this point, and sticking with what they were already planning/doing. I get that that message didn’t come across to you, but it’s absolutely there. You responded to that by saying “I guess nobody wants to discuss that” which is a guilt trip.

      And I never said you were forcing anything, I said it honestly seems like that’s what you were trying to do. Which, from the outside, it really absolutely does.

      Just because people post things and then don’t want to talk about something tangential to, or an expansion of, the thing they are posting about doesn’t mean they don’t want to discuss whatever it is, it means they don’t want to discuss it the same way you do, or go beyond where they already are. That’s not less valid, even if it upsets you personally to not get to have the conversation you want to.

        • Rev3rze@feddit.nlEnglish
          61·
          6 months 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.

        • reattach@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          6 months 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.

        • brbpostingEnglish
          21·
          6 months 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 :)

    • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      42·
      6 months ago

      You conveniently left out the part where I said to show me the research, and I’d read it.

      So far I’ve gotten a single link to a single paper that was irrelevant to this project, and a whole lot of “you’re doing it wrong, trust me bro” from two people.

      • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
        28·
        6 months ago

        You conveniently left out the part where I said to show me the research, and I’d read it.

        The part that is basic plant botany and anyone with a basic understanding of how a plant grows would know…? Plants absorb stuff from the soil and hold it, some are better than others. The same has to be true for other mediums like water and coco….

        You’re arguing that neither of those are true claims….