What should we do to our pond before the ice and snow starts to accumulate? Looking at one item to prepare the pond for winter and benefit from next spring is weeding the pond, I know it sounds weird because we weed a garden not a pond. Weeding the pond is simply removing the mass […]
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How to prevent a Winter fish kill It’s never a good day when we walk to the pond only to see the fish gasping for air in the open water. Or worse yet is getting to the pond to see them all floating or already on the shoreline. Why does a winter fish kill happen?
What it is, what it does, questions and answers? Pond dye is just that a dye to color the pond water with your choice of three different colors. Natures Blue which is blue you may have seen before, Black Dyemond is unique that gives the pond even more reflective properties, makes the pond look deeper
I’m sure you’ve seen the light house from time to time in different pictures or video that’s been posted throughout the site over the past couple years. A birthday present for the little women, one of her favorite pond accessories. It is pretty cool to have and saved me a lot of time and energy
How to Kill cattails and or controlling cattails could be a full time job as these guys are fairly aggressive with a root system that pops up a new stalk just about anywhere. Cattails may take their time getting to your pond or show up in the first year. These guys don’t take long once
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How does a summer fish kill happen? Wow what a year, spring seemed to last forever and the rain seemed never ending. Then all the sudden the faucet was turned off and hasn’t turned back on again. At the same time the rain stopped it turned into summer temps’ and has been here since. Now
How about this nice warm weather? Some think it UN bearable while others are soaking it up, too bad we couldn’t save it for February when the digits on the thermometer are single or negative and the pond is iced over with white stuff piling up all around. No rain, no wind, high humidity and
We are just wrapping up our C.E.R.T. live training, graduation and leaving the 911 building when all our phones started going off with the warnings. First was severe Thunderstorm and minutes after that was tornado warnings. We did end up in hail but no “cows” if you remember that movie. What a spectacular scene with
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With the last post about Spring, Geese and Nutrients in the pond I ruffled some feathers of a reader and was reminded not all ponds are built for the same reason. In the Definitive Guide and beginning with the pond building endeavor it was brought up about different type ponds and are built for many
Spring is coming…and so are the nutrients that create algae in our ponds. All winter long the pond has been frozen over and covered with snow. No sunlight entering the pond and very cold water temperatures has left the water column in a clear state. Meaning the nutrients and plants that had been in the
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