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Aquatic Propagation in Scours

Aquatic plant, pickerel weed, being grown in a nursery

Over the summer aquatic plants, like this pickerel weed, have been grown in a nursery and planted in some of the deeper scours that have held water through the summer.

By: Frank Nelson

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