Feeding Deep Water Lilies

Is there a way (or a tool that's available) to place fertilizer pellets into a lily pot that's 3 ft. under the water surface and at least 4 ft. away from the edge of my pond?

Doug says that he's not aware of any kind of tool to do this. Generally, you'd feed them in the spring (lower the water level to wading depth) by hand.

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Feeding Deep Water Lilies

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Putting fertilizer in a deep pond.
by: Felix Neussendorfer

To get fertilizer into deep water I use a rigid plastic tube about 1 1/4 inch in diameter--a foot long is enough--taped to a broom handle. A second broom handle is used as a pusher. I sawed off the end to make it square. On this end I nailed a disk just a little smaller than the inside of the plastic tube. Put the fertilizer (two tablespoonfuls) on one end of a 6 inch by 12 inch piece of newspaper--no colors, the lilies make their own color. Roll up the paper over the fertilizer--about two layers. Keep the fertilizer bunched together near the center. Fold the ends of the roll toward the center. Keep rolling this up to the end of the paper. Into the front end of the plastic tube put a good handful of soft natural clay. Push the fertilizer pack into the tube after the clay and put a clay stopper after the fertilizer to keep it from falling out. Put your pusher into the tube till it touches the clay and holding both sticks together poke the loaded tube into the soil near the lily roots. Hold the pusher stick in the same place and pull the tube stick back out of the soil and then pull out the pusher stick. To keep the fertilizer from getting out of the soil firm the soil over the hole you made.

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