Sunday, August 31, 2008

Summertime Pond Care

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Summertime pond care is important when summer arrives, We are already breaking heat records in New Orleans and it's not even officially ...
Saturday, August 30, 2008

How to Fix a Pond Leak

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Before you read this, remember, for this and for more pond info, go to Pondlady's forum For gardening info, join us at Gardeners Gumb...
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Friday, August 29, 2008

The Shade Pond

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When choosing a location for your pond or water garden, trees in your landscape can be a big problem or their presence can make your pond a ...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

How to Control Pond Algae

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Pond Algae: Green Pond Blues Pond algae are pretty easy to control. If you have koi, you must have an extensive filtration system to cont...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Spring pond care

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Keep this until spring in your part of the world. This is part of the continuing series of my articles that number over 40 now. I will be ...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Pond Disasters

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Pond Disasters You finally have your pond in your garden and have been told that maintenance is almost nonexistent. And you are right. The...
Monday, August 25, 2008

Cleaning your pond

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For more pond information, join us at Pondlady's Interactive Forum For the exchange of gardening information, find good company at Garde...
Sunday, August 24, 2008

Routine Pond Maintenance

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Your pond takes very little maintenance, much less than your lawn that you fertilize and then mow each and every week. But there are a ...
Sunday, August 10, 2008

The August Heat

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How do we make it through the summer, I wonder. I know that those of you in northern climes are at the end of your summer, but we in the So...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

The dog days of summer

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Passion Flower in my yard It is not even August yet, but the high temps in the south are reaching the high 90's. Do your fish hav...
Monday, May 19, 2008

Spring housing problems

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I have a garden full of tree frogs. These two love to live in my calla lilies. Unfortunately the callas are fast rotting away, but the frogs...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Fertilizing aquatic plants

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If you have not yet fertilized your water lilies, now is the time. Use aquatic plant tabs and push them into the soil. Use one tab for each ...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Fire Ants and the Pond

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I get many questions about killing ants (especially fire ants) around the pond. They are worried about poisoning the fish if some ant kille...
Monday, May 12, 2008

Koi and Clay

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Koi will scrounge around a pond's natural bottom for food. When they eat the food, they also get some tiny pieces of clay. The clay pro...
Friday, May 09, 2008

Fish spawning

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It's spring and a young male fish's fancy turns to thoughts of female fish. When you see your fish chasing after each other, someti...
Thursday, May 08, 2008

Koi? Illegal?

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Owning or keeping koi is illegal in the state of Maine. Koi are considered a nuisance fish that can invade public waterways and cause native...
Friday, May 02, 2008

Clean out that pump

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The biggest cause of pump failure is the pump getting clogged and dirty. At least once monthly uplug it, remove the tubing that goes out of...
Thursday, May 01, 2008

Louisiana Irises

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Louisiana irises are just finishing blooming in Zone 8b on the North side of Lake Pontchartrain. Our Irises are beautiful plants and l...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Feeding fish

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Do not feed goldfish because it turns the pond into an outdoor aquarium, but here's yet another reason not to feed them. Fish soon re...
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Friday, April 25, 2008

Wild Plants

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If you gather plants from the wild, you will bring in parasites and diseases. If you must harvest from the roadside ditches and swamps, f...