Learning to build a pond
I guess we should start with why they go bad and what bad really means. Once your pond is finished and filled up its goal is to fill back in and become a swamp or grassy meadow once again. Many circumstances are involved in this process. From uses of the pond to the watershed that […]
Unwanted pond plants, pond weeds can, and at some point, take over the pond and render the pond not especially useful for fishing or swimming. Depending on the pond weed species like Water Shield which is very stringy and stretchy can be extremely dangerous if you fell overboard into the plants you could become tangled
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Over Grown Pond Project Ponds are a great way to relax by, fish and observe the wildlife the pond attracts. But we need to remember that ponds and lakes are always trying to return to what they once were. A meadow or field or small ravine. Incoming nutrients by waterfowl, animals, rain and the process
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The calendar says spring has been here but the snow on the ground and cold temperatures says different. The snow is melting in what sun we do get and the above freezing temperatures at times helps as well. The pictures are not the greatest but wanted to show you the critters we caught hanging around
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Another pond and lake season is coming up soon, I hope. Hopefully this snow will let go and warmer temperatures are on their way. Middle of March and we are still 10 degrees this morning, ugh. At the time of this writing our winter season has given us close to 200” of snow so that’s
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Union City dam part 2 If you didn’t see the first part, check out the Union City Dam. I swung by a while ago to see if the water was high enough to be going out the spillway. It was so I took some video of the spillway in action, the over flow pipe in
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As the temperature drops below freezing we see snow instead of rain. The snow is pretty neat as it lands on the water it seems to just get swallowed up, sort of like magic. Over time as the snowflakes drop into the pond they cool the water and the air temperature cools the water until
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Ponds are big attractor of wildlife. Not that we have caught or have on film, the deer drinking from the pond but see tracks all the time around the edge and into the water a little bit. As spring started to come, and dragged out for what seems like forever with rain and below normal
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Looks like this year was a light winter same as last year. Also seems that we had more warm ups and warmer temperatures to go along with the snow melts. It does seem we had some flow through in the ponds, pond dye is washed out for sure but did we get a good flushing?
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