Maintaining Your Pond...
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Aerating Your Pond
Keeping your pond properly aerated is a key part of making sure it stays healthy particularly if it is stocked with fish. Although a certain amount of oxygen diffuses...
Autumn Pond Maintenance
As the days begin to shorten and summer slowly slips into autumn, just like the rest of the garden, there are a few seasonal jobs to be done around the pond to start to...
Controlling Algae
Ponds and water gardens add a new visual dimension to any garden, but when the water turns green and thick strands of algae cover the surface, threatening to choke all...
Dealing with Green Pond Water
There are few things more disappointing for the water gardener than to see the water of your lovingly built pond turn soupy green. In the past, dealing with the curse of...
Dealing With Silt in Your Pond
In nature, ponds are normally a temporary element of the countryside – even if they last for quite some time, they gradually silt up and eventually become dry land;...
Filtering Your Pond
If you want to keep any more than one or two fish in your pond you are almost certainly going to need to filter it. In nature, fish numbers are controlled by what the...
Managing Plant Overgrowth Within Your Pond
Once established, water plants usually grow very well, blooming and increasing in size with little need for much in the way of encouragement or...
Pond Treatments
Pond treatments are big business – as a quick look on the shelves of most aquatic suppliers will make very clear – and although they are often seen as “fish-medicine”...
Pond Water Quality
Water quality is the single most important factor in ensuring a healthy pond – particularly if it is stocked with fish – but quality is not the same as clarity. Just...
Preparing Your Pond for Winter
With autumn slipping into winter the pond enters a state of suspended animation as the water cools and the metabolism of fish and plant life slows right down. At this...
Pumping Your Pond
Adding a pump gives the pond a heart able to drive the circulation of water through filters and UV clarifiers, fountains and waterfalls, giving the whole water feature a...
Repairing Your Pond
There are few things guaranteed to make the pond-keeper feel sick quite so quickly as the sight of the water level suddenly starting to drop for no good reason. Any one...
Spring Pond Maintenance
As the pond begins to wake up after its winter sleep a few simple jobs done at this end of the year should help get things off to a flying start as the weather warms up....
Summer Pond Maintenance
Summer is the high-point in the water-gardener’s calendar – a time when the pond should be at its best and plants fish and wildlife thrive, bloom and breed; in short,...
Ultra Violet Clarifiers
The scourge of green water – a bloom of single-celled algae suspended in the water – is one of the most common problems to plague pond-keepers especially in spring and...
What Do You Know About Pond Water?
Water is an amazing substance. A little over 70% of our planet is covered with the stuff, it’s essential for life, of course, and you obviously can’t have a pond...
