Maintaining 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 naturally into the water at its ...

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 prepare it for the eventual ...

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 the other plants, the sight is ...

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 green water could often turn ...

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 pond or lake can naturally ...

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” they also include types of ...

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 because water appears crystal ...

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 time of year, a few last jobs ...

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 new dynamic dimension while ...

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 of a number of other causes ...

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. Equipment which has lain ...

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, summer is payback time for all ...

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 early summer. Though it was ...