Okay, so they aren't a part of my garden, but they are something we are raising for personal consumption, so I feel the desire to put in a post about the little guys.
We have a pond, or as they are more generally referred to in Texas, a stock tank, a couple of hundred yards from the house. When full to the brim it measures close to 4/10's of an acre...but it is rarely full here in drought country...and so is more like 2/10's of an acre most of the time. When full it is probably 8-9' in depth but, as above stated regarding usual size, is about 4' in depth now.
I stocked the tank with 150 channel cat in February of 2008. They were little, being about 4" size. But the things grow quickly if they are fed. I fed them at the beginning of the summer of 2008 regularly but quit in the middle of the summer when it was so dry that the tank became really small...too many mouths for such a small area. This spring we have had some rains, even some decent rains, but very few with much runoff, so the tank is up a bit, but still far from full. I am feeding and hoping that I can get them to harvesting size soon...to lower the population in the pond and increase the population in the freezer!
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