Friday, February 12, 2010

Make your own pond vacuum cleaner

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One of our readers made his own pond vacuum cleaner. He reports it works great and was cheap to make. He graciously shared how to make it wi...
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Monday, November 30, 2009

BIG fountains

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I often get questions about huge fountains.  People try to put a fountain in a large pond, usually a natural bottom pond and find that the...
Monday, November 16, 2009

Turtles in the pond

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We haven't talked about turtles in awhile. Don't get them for your pond.  Nuf said? No?  OK, turtles eat everything in the pond...
Sunday, November 15, 2009

Another kind of pondless waterfall

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Most pondless waterfalls are holes in the ground filled with rocks or a box that makes the sound echo.  All nice and all with their o...
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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Winter Pond Care - Plants and Fish

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Winter Pond Care - Plants and Fish Reposted for those of you who missed it the first time.
Friday, November 06, 2009

Water Lilies in Winter

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Hardy water lilies will survive the worst winter you can imagine.  I have seen hardy water lilies in Rocky Mountain National Park at about 1...
Monday, November 02, 2009

Ponds, men and women

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Have you noticed? I know I have. When men build ponds they want technical, complicated things like automatic water levelers. Women j...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

Pond Vacuum Cleaners Redux

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I get questions about pond vacs all the time. People want to use a pond vac or a wet vac to clean the bottom of the pond and not have to do...
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Friday, October 30, 2009

Pond still losing water

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You are pulling your hair out trying to figure out why your pond is still losing water.  Do you have a fountain in the pond?  If so, ma...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

Help, My Pond is Still Leaking

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You have checked everything. There are no liner holes, the waterfall water is falling in the pond and not sneaking off the back, all hoses a...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

How to Patch a Liner

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I always recommend using a 40 mil butyl rubber liner when you build a pond.  Unless you walk on them with golf cleats, they survive most ...
Sunday, October 25, 2009

Catching Goldfish

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I have had a few questions about ponds freezing solid.  What to do with the goldfish? You have to catch them and bring them inside.  I hav...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Leaky liners

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I know we have talked about liner leaks before, but the question keeps getting asked: How do I fix my leaking pond? First of all, your p...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Concrete Pond Leaks

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I get questions all the time about leaky ponds. Since there are so many kinds of ponds, so many kinds of leaks and so many ways to repair th...
Monday, October 12, 2009

Ponds and the Frost Line

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Because I live in the Deep South, I do not have to bother about a frost line because aside from some chilly weather occasionally, we don...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

Did I mention pond plants?

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Cut back your tropical pond plants now.  If you plan to overwinter them, bring them in the garage or the greenhouse.  Most of them will d...
Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Winter is coming

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From questions I have been getting, it seems as if some spots in the country are headed into winter. We, of course, are still in the l...
Saturday, October 03, 2009

Pond Fish in Winter

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As the nights lengthen and cool, you may notice your fish becoming less active and lying around near the bottom of your pond.  If you do fee...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Fish are cannibals

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I get questions at my pondlady.com website and occasionally share them here.  Here's one that you may not know or have forgotten: ...
Saturday, September 26, 2009

More about irises

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I forgot to mention yesterday that it's time to cut back irises.  Many people do it in the early summer right after the plants bloom,...