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."

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Pond Gadgets

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Now that you have a pond, you need a pond shelf in your garage, or a pond place in your outdoor shed to store your pond gadgets. We accumula...
Friday, September 19, 2008

Pond Pumps and Filters

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Early pond building When I built my own pond in my back yard in 1987, filters and skimmers were used on swimming pools, not ponds. Flexibl...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Choosing a Backyard Pond Pump

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So many backyard pond pumps to choose from: Which one is best for me? Backyard Pond pumps do one thing: They move the water in your pond f...
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Fall Pond Care

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Special fall pond care is necessary when our plants and fish begin going dormant in cooler weather. When temperatures start dropping and we ...
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Pond Troubleshooting - a Case Study

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Pond troubleshooting is something all pondkeepers must do. Things can go wrong in our ponds and we must know what to look for, so we can kee...
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...
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