Bird Watching: Using pennies to keep algae out of bird bath, 1 by TheHackster
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Subject: Using pennies to keep algae out of bird bath
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TheHackster wrote: My wife was reading her January issue of Real Simple and, on p41 found, a neat article about using pennies as a "Birdbath cleaner". To paraphrase, it said that to ward off algae, you can toss in a few pre-1982 pennies. Apparently, their high copper content retards the growth of algae. I'll be giving it a try - just as soon as I find some pre-82 pennies. Hack |