Thursday, August 17, 2006

A guest writer today

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DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS by Carolyn Weise This is the “all pond owners are not created equal” or, rather, “not the same” artic...
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

My Plants/Fish are Dying

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Check the following possibilities: Are grass clippings or other debris getting into the pond and decaying? If you allow any organic materia...
Tuesday, August 15, 2006

My Pond Has Turned to Green 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 ...
Monday, August 14, 2006

I built a pond, now what?

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First of all, you need to realize that a pond is a living breathing organism that needs little maintenance if it is started properly. If yo...
Sunday, August 13, 2006

How To Build a Pond FINALE

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How To Build a Pond: Completion Remember that soil you excavated way back in step one and put it in a ring around the hole. Rake the excavat...
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Saturday, August 12, 2006

How to build a pond part 4

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How To Build a Pond: Rock Placement After the pond is almost full, place the first layer of decorative stones or bricks around the sides ove...
Friday, August 11, 2006

How to build a pond part 3

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Level the bottom for placement of plants. Clip off any protruding roots and smooth the sides and bottom well. Cover all exposed surfaces wit...
Thursday, August 10, 2006

How to build a pond, part 2

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How To Build a Pond: Getting Started To build your pond, you will need the following: A shovel, maybe two if you can get help to dig A rake ...
Wednesday, August 09, 2006

How to Build a Pond

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This will be the first of a series on how to build a pond. Photos will be included with each step. There are many kinds of garden ponds. Whe...
Tuesday, August 08, 2006

This is why we have ponds

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I was going to start a series this morning on How to Build a Pond, but I looked outside and saw this. I usually don't like Canna's ...
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Monday, August 07, 2006

The dog days of August

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In New Orleans, August is longer than any other month. The temperatures easily reach the mid to high nineties. Lows are night are often in t...
Saturday, August 05, 2006

My blue pot

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I have pictures of my new garden bed. It is so tough to take pics of a new bed. Everything is so new and raw and sprawled out. The new pla...
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Friday, August 04, 2006

Rainy day

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And the rain arrived just in time to give my new plants a good soaking. I have a quasi pond in the front yard...a cobalt blue pot with wat...
Thursday, August 03, 2006

Questions with no answers

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After 17 years in this business, there are questions that stand out. Remember when a teacher told you there is no such thing as a dumb ques...
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Swim Bladder Disease

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QUESTION: I have some fairly good sized gold fish in my pond..all of which appear healthy. One in particular, about an 8 incher, will oc...
Tuesday, August 01, 2006

need help with updating my pond

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Hi Jan, I am 53. I have a pond that is approximately 6' y 8', 24 to 38" depth, with a small 3-4'waterfall that I have enjo...
Monday, July 31, 2006

The New Pond

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Hi Pondlady 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...
Sunday, July 30, 2006

11 months out: Dateline New Orleans

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Yesterday was the 11 month anniversary of Katrina. The time has both crawled and flown. It is hard to believe that we evacuated, returned, f...
Friday, July 28, 2006

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Rich Sacher, my long time friend and owner of American Aquatic Gardens in New Orleans has a new book out. See it at the International Water...
Thursday, July 27, 2006

Nifty new thing

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I have found what I think is just the neatest thing. Attach it to your hose and top off your pond without worrying about adding dechlori...