Catfish Ponds & Lily Pads: Creating and Enjoying a Family Pond

by Louise Riotte

Overview

In this entertaining guide, Louise Riotte tells you everything you need to know to create a productive pond on your own land, from siting the pond to maintaining water quality and stocking the pond with fish. She also includes plenty of old-time fishing lore and scrumptious recipes for freshly caught fish.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780882669496
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	01/04/1997
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Beloved author and life-long gardener Louise Riotte passed away in 1998 at the age of 89. During her life, she wrote twelve books on gardening, companion planting, and garden lore, among them the ever-popular Carrots Love Tomatoes. Her father taught her how to practice astrology, while her mother was an herbalist. Together they greatly influenced her life and her books, including Roses Love Garlic, Astrological Gardening, Sleeping with a Sunflower, Catfish Ponds & Lily Pads, and Raising Animals by the Moon. Riotte was an artist as well as a writer, and her own drawings appear in all of her books. She took great pride in her garden near her home in Ardmore, Oklahoma.

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: Creating a Pond

1. Building Our Dream Pool

2. Getting Started

3. The Joy of a Backyard Lily Pool

4. Pond Plants

Part 2: Fishing and Fish Farming

5. Fishing Down the Moonbeam

6. Stocking the Pond

7. Catfish

8. Raising Fish Commercially

Part 3: Other Pond Dwellers

9. Ducks — and Geese — in a Row

10. Frogging for Family Fun

11. The Succulent Crawfish

12. The Long and Short of Turtles

Recipes

Sources

Index