October is the time to clear up your pond. Autumn neglect will lead to problems next Spring. There are 4 key points: 1. Remove tree leaves as they...
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Maintaining your container pond this Autumn is particularly important as you can accumulate significant amounts of rotting vegetation in that small volume of water. 1. Remove tree leaves that arrive...
To do Autumn pond maintenance successfully you need the correct equipment. Otherwise - no sooner do you reach over into the water that little bit further than water...
Gardeners World programme showed Frances Tophill at a customer's pond to do Autumn Maintenance on a congested pond. It was so 'tangled with plants' that they could hardly...
Long pond gloves are a real asset for working in the pond in Autumn. We would say they are essential to any maintenance work you do in the...
You can see the colours of Autumn in the foliage of some pond plants now - just as clearly as you can in the leaves of many trees....
Falling tree leaves have a bad effect on the quality of your pond water. You should put a covering net across your pond before the tree leaves fall...
There are not many pond plant pests but here are some that may be affecting your waterlilies and shelf pond plants now. For illustrations of these pond plant...
The weather forecast for next week is HOT! Watch out for water loss from your pond or container pond due to evaporation. In normal summer months the effect...
Along with sunny days comes the growth of all plants. Unfortunately that can include the plant growth that you do not want to see - like the greenish...
Pond clean up - stage 3: This is the best time of year to remove some of the silt or sludge at the bottom of the pond caused...
Continue with stage 1 pond maintenance - you should remove rotting brown waterlily leaves and dead flowers. Also any upright foliage falling over and droping into the water...
Native Hydrocharis morsus-ranae - Frogbit - is starting to breakdown now and the dormant buds will drop off the leaves to the base of the pond or container...
So that you can become aware of the worst culprits here is a 'rogues gallery' of the 5 banned aquatic plant species highlighted by DEFRA and the 'Beplantwise'...
The barleystraw minibale that has been in your pond for 6 months now should be removed from the pond before it decomposes any further in the water. If...
This is the time of year when duckweed and green algae blanketweed may begin to reappear. Duckweed (the 3 lobed leaf with a thread thin root) seeded down...
Your pond plants will start to go brown and die back in Autumn This is nothing to worry about. Most will start to decay - they are not...
On Valentines Day - Love your pond - add minibales of barleystraw so they have time to decompose before the warm daytime temperatures of Spring sunshine. As the...
Maintenance of the pond every Autumn: Question: Why should you maintain and clean your pond? Answer: To avoid algae and blanketweed growth next Spring. Remove any fallen tree...
Recently we have had hot and dry weather - the odd torrential downpour has helped the level of water in the pond as it was getting precariously low....