{"id":5559,"date":"2016-07-29T11:42:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T15:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/?p=5559"},"modified":"2016-07-29T11:42:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T15:42:28","slug":"got-weeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/2016\/07\/29\/got-weeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Got Weeds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-the-lake1.gif\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3858\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-the-lake1.gif\" alt=\"love-the-lake\" width=\"100\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a>By Dick Hurwitz \u2013 Lake Management Committee<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You look out at the lake or cove near your dock, beach, shoreline or seawall and see some, or maybe a lot of weeds and lily pads.\u00a0 You wonder what you should do about them.\u00a0 Should you try to get rid of them?\u00a0 The answer is \u201cmaybe.\u201d\u00a0 Consider the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where they are growing, the weeds help to control or reduce the algae in the water. After all, the weeds need nutrients to grow\u2014many of the same nutrients needed by algae to thrive.<\/li>\n<li>Unless they get too thick, weeds are good for fish and fishing. They provide shelter, oxygen, ambush points, and a smorgasbord of baitfish for the fish you might be \u201cangling\u201d for.<\/li>\n<li>But maybe you really need to clear the weeds so you, your family, and your guests can swim, or so you can dock and use your watercraft.<\/li>\n<li>Or maybe you just don\u2019t like the way the weeds look.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So it\u2019s really up to you to decide whether to leave the weeds, try to reduce them, or try to get rid of as many as possible.\u00a0 And if you do decide to go after the weeds, consider using one or more tools designed for the purpose and listed below. \u00a0\u00a0Be sure that whichever tool or tools you may decide to use, it is important to gather and remove weeds cut from the lake so as not to contribute additional nutrients (decomposing weeds) into the lake.\u00a0 Also, uncollected cuttings may root elsewhere and compound your weed problem.\u00a0\u00a0 Collected weeds can go into your compost bin or be disposed of at the Village compost site. \u00a0\u00a0Suggested tools include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Weed rakes: these are designed to pull loose or growing weeds toward you so they may be removed.<\/li>\n<li>Weed cutters: these are designed to cut the weeds near the water bottom so they may be raked or gathered.<\/li>\n<li>Combo tools: these are designed to both cut the weeds and gather* them in one step.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An Internet search using key words such as \u201clake weed rakes\u201d or \u201clake weed cutters\u201d will yield many different tools at various price levels, but most will cost from about $70 to $200.\u00a0 Your Lake Management Committee has no specific product recommendations, but you can check out the following YouTube videos to get an idea of the different types of products and how to use them:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i-B2YFXrB-M\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i-B2YFXrB-M<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R6ZvFXVbjiA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R6ZvFXVbjiA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Decisions, decisions.\u00a0 Ultimately, the choice is yours.\u00a0 Hopefully this brief article will lead you to the answers that are best for you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">BE LAKE RESPONSIBLE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dick Hurwitz \u2013 Lake Management Committee You look out at the lake or cove near your dock, beach, shoreline or seawall and see some, or maybe a lot of weeds and lily pads.\u00a0 You wonder what you should do about them.\u00a0 Should you try to get rid of them?\u00a0 The answer is \u201cmaybe.\u201d\u00a0 Consider &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/2016\/07\/29\/got-weeds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Got Weeds?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,34,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lake-management-articles","category-sediment-control-sub-committee","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}