Learning to build a pond
With the Holiday right around the corner I wanted to share a short video about a little bird trying to be Independent. Even though we struggle in life we struggled as a country to become Independent and this little guy in the video just kept it up. This was so fun to watch and he […]
What type of fish would you put in your pond? Part of the dilemma is what do you really want the pond to produce and if the pond can handle the species you want to add to the pond. For most pond owners warm water fish like bass and blue gill are the usual
Here we go again with pond Dye. We’ve talked before how it can beautify your pond from the green or brownish color from too many leaves or algae blooms to a natural blue or rich black color similar to the Canadian Lakes. Recently I tried out our super concentrated pond dye along with our New
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Some plants are good for the pond and surrounding the pond and then there are the bad guys who while take over the entire area. Phragmites is one of the bad guys. Where do they come from? There a plenty of ways the bad guys get transported. Birds and wildlife can be the vehicle of
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Update on our previous posts about the geese…The geese have left the pond. Well that was an experience and a total mess left from the geese each and every day. I forget which way it is but it’s either 2 or 3 geese equal one cow for the fertilizer left behind each day. There is
I did a post a long time ago about the Outer Banks of North Carolina more about purchasing a home or condo but here I want to tell you more about the vacation time, what we have done there and why we like the OBX (Outer Banks) time away. We use to go camping at
Every now and then you may see something strange in the middle of the field, yard or driveway. At first it looks like a big ole rock that wasn’t there before. This happened a couple years ago to me coming up the drive from work and I just to myself “where did that come from?”
Spring update at the pond. Wild life at the pond, In a recent post we talked about spring taking forever to get here and by the time it did arrive we ended up with geese hanging out at the pond, even though we chased them off each day, they are persistent and apparently bull headed.
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Ponds that have lived through a drought have a potential to leak once the water level fills back up. Scary thought but follow along and see what can happen. As the summer months get hotter and hotter evaporation continues to remove water from the pond along with any seeps or leaks that allow the water
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Winter just wouldn’t let go and by time it did it was too late. Spring arrived at WhatPond and the two legged nutrient machines have been coming around for a month now and it didn’t take much to get them to leave, simply walk towards them and off they go. Our usual geese deterrent is
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