Friday, January 26, 2007

Thinking about spring

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I know, I know, it's January and it's cold out there. But the seed catalogs are arriving and all of you under a snow blanket are re...
Sunday, January 21, 2007

Letters, we get letters

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I am in need of a new pond heater for the pond in my newly-acquired home. Are the 100w de-icers efficient enough to keep the fish alive ove...
Saturday, January 20, 2007

Rain and more rain

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It has just now stopped raining in New Orleans and we are one soggy city. My shoes get sucked off if I walk through the front yard to the m...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Pondless waterfalls

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I have had questions lately about pondless watefalls. They are not all that different from regular ponds. First you dig a hole and line i...
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Monday, January 15, 2007

De-icing the pond

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Here's some ways to keep a hole in the pond ice. Gases need to be exchanged so fish can survive. On to the de-icing ideas: Carolyn...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Watch out for acid rain

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Often we have protracted periods of no rain here in Louisiana and then day after day of heavy rains. During the rainless times, we usually ...
Friday, January 05, 2007

Letters, we get letters

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Jan: I am 78 and am constructing my first water element. It is about finished. My problem is I am not quite sure how to handle the return...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Time to start thinking

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Happy New Year to everyone. But now that the year end festivities are over and carnival is 7 weeks away here in NO, we can start giving a ...
Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Koi: Did you know?

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Fancy, different colored carp are called "nishikigoi," which literally means "brocaded carp" in Japanese. Koi is short ...
Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Building a waterfall

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Building a Waterfall Building a waterfall is either simple or difficult depending on the point of view of the builder. We want them to loo...
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Saturday, December 16, 2006

Repairing a preformed pond

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Usually when a preformed pond springs a leak, it is where the pond has ledges. We tend to step on the ledge when we get in the pond and bec...
Friday, December 15, 2006

Concrete ponds

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I get calls from folks with pond problems. Here's one I got recently. A woman has a concrete pond with a huge crack in it. She hired ...
Thursday, December 14, 2006

Pond vacuum cleaners

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I get letters about pond vacs. There are some that work great, but they are not cheap, nor are they perfect. Most of the letters I receive ...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Ponds in a Warm Winter

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We had a cold snap a week or so ago and the entire upper half of the US was hammered with snow, ice, high winds and just horrible weather. H...
Monday, December 11, 2006

Plant parasites

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Pond plants can be infected with so many parasites. And the best way to find them is to get fish or plants from the wild. If you have the ...
Thursday, December 07, 2006

Winter pond days

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When the temps are below freezing, or at least were last night, no one is out relaxing and enjoying their pond. Check your water lily corms...
Wednesday, December 06, 2006

If your pond freezes

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You woke up this morning and your pond was iced over. You forgot to throw a semi filled water jug in the pond last night and now you have n...
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

In the 20s this morning

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Good grief, it's cold for Southern Louisiana. My zinnias bit the dust, my mums are brown. The Louisiana Iris loves this weather and st...
Monday, December 04, 2006

Here we go again

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It's not even 40 degrees outside. And there's a wind, so it feel even colder. The pond is doing fine all by itself. I have removed...
Saturday, December 02, 2006

It's cold this morning

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Ponds are not frozen here, but at 40 degrees outside this morning, I have no desire to be outside tending to one. So today will be pictures...