From the Pondlady's Pad

Time to time musings about backyard garden pond building, keeping, troubleshooting. Questions and answers from pond keepers and builders. Occasional excerpts from the pondlady's book, "A Practical Guide to Building and Maintaining your Pond."

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Friday, April 13, 2012

Feeding your Goldfish

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Occasionally, feeding of pond goldfish becomes a topic of extreme concern to the keepers of ponds. Do not feed goldfish. This does not appl...

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Monday, June 21, 2010

Submersible Vegatation

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Question: What is the best type of plant to fully submerge in a pond? I am not going to keep fish in it, hoping for some frogs and newts ...

Sunday, March 07, 2010

Oxygenating grasses

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Question: Can you plant just regular grass seed in a fish pond? Will it grow? Will it take oxygen from the fish? I own some land in which ...

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Fish feeding

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You are always telling us not to feed our fish. But the fish store tells me I must feed them, Who is right? Pondlady sez: If you have a ...

Thursday, March 20, 2008

A New Pond

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Question: I am a new pond owner and it has been established for about a month, I have added a few fish. At first they were very active no...

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Algae

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Green water is often a problem in full sun and well fertilized plants. Do not use chemicals to control the algae--it will kill your lilies...

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Sunday, April 08, 2007

My pond looks like pea soup

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Questions for the pondlady: I followed all the rules, did everything you said to do, Jan, but my pond is completely green. I couldn't bu...

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