K' Family Reef
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my wife and i are amateur gardeners
just taking up the hobby in the spring of this year - when we decided to redo our landscape into more of a 'tropical' scape... our house sat vacant for about 6 mos prior to moving in and long story short - the sprinklers somehow were shut off (while it was sitting vacant) and down went (some of) the landscape that came w/ the house... then we just decided last year to to do more the tropical-scape on this property - especially being 'reefers' we like the look/feeling of the more tropical landscapes which goes along so well w/ our reef and other aquariums...
and being (reefer) members of RC
thought we might start a thread here in this forum for anyone interested in sharing ideas/tips on gardening... admittedly we might have some experience to share but more then likely here to learn more from others on their experiences/tips/advice etc etc etc... being that we spend a lot of time on RC - thought what better place to knock out 2 birds w/ 1 stone - 2 things that we love doing - reefing AND gardening!
:thumbsup:
most are probably familiar w/ XERIscaping landscapes...
we are more or less wanting to combine elements of both - XERI and TROPIscapes into our landscape design and from what we planted in the spring - we had pretty good luck over the summer - of course in some ways (now) feeling invincible... if we could get our plants to SURVIVE the az summer then we could do anything!!!
but now w/ fall approaching
we are getting ready to really dig in and get our hands dirty researching and planting more (being that we didnt do too badly in the spring/over the summer).
if there is anyone else interested in gardening
then please feel free to join in share your tips/advice recoms/ask quests etc etc... the thing that my wife pointed out is that gardening seems to have a lot in common w/ reefing... one has to start taking into consideration ph of the soil, fertilizer, the good stuff - 'life' in the soil (like in our sandbeds), the care and maintanance etc etc etc - in many ways it parallels reefing!
so jump in and lets do some gardening -
while we take care of our reefing at the same time!
:wavehand:
regards
just taking up the hobby in the spring of this year - when we decided to redo our landscape into more of a 'tropical' scape... our house sat vacant for about 6 mos prior to moving in and long story short - the sprinklers somehow were shut off (while it was sitting vacant) and down went (some of) the landscape that came w/ the house... then we just decided last year to to do more the tropical-scape on this property - especially being 'reefers' we like the look/feeling of the more tropical landscapes which goes along so well w/ our reef and other aquariums...
and being (reefer) members of RC
thought we might start a thread here in this forum for anyone interested in sharing ideas/tips on gardening... admittedly we might have some experience to share but more then likely here to learn more from others on their experiences/tips/advice etc etc etc... being that we spend a lot of time on RC - thought what better place to knock out 2 birds w/ 1 stone - 2 things that we love doing - reefing AND gardening!
:thumbsup:
most are probably familiar w/ XERIscaping landscapes...
we are more or less wanting to combine elements of both - XERI and TROPIscapes into our landscape design and from what we planted in the spring - we had pretty good luck over the summer - of course in some ways (now) feeling invincible... if we could get our plants to SURVIVE the az summer then we could do anything!!!

but now w/ fall approaching
we are getting ready to really dig in and get our hands dirty researching and planting more (being that we didnt do too badly in the spring/over the summer).
if there is anyone else interested in gardening
then please feel free to join in share your tips/advice recoms/ask quests etc etc... the thing that my wife pointed out is that gardening seems to have a lot in common w/ reefing... one has to start taking into consideration ph of the soil, fertilizer, the good stuff - 'life' in the soil (like in our sandbeds), the care and maintanance etc etc etc - in many ways it parallels reefing!
so jump in and lets do some gardening -
while we take care of our reefing at the same time!
:wavehand:
regards
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