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A few pond questions (2 Viewers)
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Charles Harper
Régisseur
In pots, and if you want waterlilies to flower, you'll have to re-pot on schedule-- follow the directions. Over here, I only occasionally get a skimming of ice on top, which doesn't effect the plants. I think anything short of freezing solid should be OK for anything but tropicals.
Charles Harper
Régisseur
I take that back, seb-- actually, I clean my ponds in the autumn, and most of the potted plants I leave out in a corner of the garden for the winter, watering them regularly if the weather is dry. Then I re-pot in the early spring and put them back in the ponds. But my 'ponds' are really plastic tubs a meter in diameter and a third of a meter deep. The fish survive the winters in them, though.
Nina P
Nina
I'll try again, as I got timed out on postin before....
If you are going to replant or repot aquatic plants, please make sure you use proper aquatic compost and gravel, as you don't want blue or green bloom to affect your pond water, and distress pond dwellers.
there is no reason not to do this any time now, and I am also about to embark on removing Bullrushes that have seeded themselves into my pond, courtesy of the birds, and if your pond is over 18" deep and dug into the soil there will be no problem for the fish, One thing to remember is to try and prevent the whole surface freezing over, so a tennis ball or rubber ball that can be removed and replaced every day to ventilate under the ice without smashing the ice with hitting it will help maintain healthy fish, If the ice should totally freeze then try to melt a part of it as the shockwaves on striking will kill the fish.
I have found that reeds will also maintain ventilation, and putting a small object amongst them acts as a ball would. Nina.
If you are going to replant or repot aquatic plants, please make sure you use proper aquatic compost and gravel, as you don't want blue or green bloom to affect your pond water, and distress pond dwellers.
there is no reason not to do this any time now, and I am also about to embark on removing Bullrushes that have seeded themselves into my pond, courtesy of the birds, and if your pond is over 18" deep and dug into the soil there will be no problem for the fish, One thing to remember is to try and prevent the whole surface freezing over, so a tennis ball or rubber ball that can be removed and replaced every day to ventilate under the ice without smashing the ice with hitting it will help maintain healthy fish, If the ice should totally freeze then try to melt a part of it as the shockwaves on striking will kill the fish.
I have found that reeds will also maintain ventilation, and putting a small object amongst them acts as a ball would. Nina.
