Regarding the frogs, I built two ponds and never did get frogs. I had a very large bull frog show up once but I suspect the neighbors kids had something to do with that as well as the crawdad I discovered... Anyway, couldn't irradiate the crawdad, but did manage to capture the frog and dumped him out at a local city park miles away. HATE bull frogs, they get rather large and will eat anything that fits in their mouth-inlcluding fish. I did however have a plethora of toads. Toads everywhere. Some of the toads drowned in the first pond and I had to built a toad ramp so they would have a way out of the water after they jumped in. The sides were too slick and they could not get out. They would lay gobs of eggs all the time and I had tadpoles like crazy which I found out my goldfish would not eat.
I envy your treated soil LOL mine is Weed City
Most of the sewers around this part of the country at least, just put the water back in the ground by underground pipes and the water is of course not reused for anything. When I was renting in OK we had a sewer set up as you describe where the water is cleaned through I think 3 different tanks/filters and then released onto the lawn by sprinklers, a great way to reuse the water, but still sort of dumb.... the grass is green in three patches lol the rest was just as brown and dead as everything else around. I guess when you are that desperate for something green even patchiness is a good thing!
Brian, I second Crimson Pirate, I thought that as soon as I seen your photo. I have CP and it is a proliffic bloomer with rich color, and a bud builder... it blooms and blooms. I must say I gave up on dead heading and it just looked like a big red glob!
