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."

Monday, May 31, 2010

How to build a pond

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Is it possible to build a small pond in your back yard without professional stuff? I'm not sure how, but I wanted to build a small pond ...
Sunday, May 30, 2010

Natural Pond Plant Removal

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Question: How to remove Lilly pads from a pond? They have taken over my pond and there is no way of fishing in it, the point we even had t...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

tabletop fountains

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Question:  In my garden I just have a glass bowl on a slab of sandstone and decorative rocks around it and I'm using it currently as a ...
Friday, May 28, 2010

Gravel in the Pond Bottom

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Question: Can I put driveway gravel in pond after washing it with water? It is not pea gravel or river gravel though. It is gray and blue...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Blanketweed

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Question: What is the best treatment green pond weed? It's like green cottonwood. Answer: Blanket weed is what you have. It's d...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Pond in a Box

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Question: Is it possible to reinforce a cedar planter with pond liner in it to hold 40 gallons of water? How would you go about building ...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

How many gallons of water do I have

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Question: Square and Circle Pond Calculator PROBLEM..? I just want to ask how to compute POND SIZE, IDEAL STOCK LEVEL OF FISH, PUMP SIZE a...
Monday, May 24, 2010

How to figure cubic feet

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Question: This is a working fish pond, with five tier waterfall. Will keep waterfall, and small recovery pool, but want to fill in the maj...
Sunday, May 23, 2010

Snail Eggs?

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Question: What are the clear eggs on a lily pad leaf in my pond? I have a container pond in my back yard. I have pretty recently redone i...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

Growing water lilies

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Question: What size fountain/pond would I need to grow water lilies? Answer: Ideally, water lilies want to be about 3 feet below the w...
Friday, May 21, 2010

Attracting wildlife to the pond

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Question: How can i attract wildlife to my pond? I have a pond, about 4x4 meters roughly. Its has a range of plants and Lilly's and i...
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Cleaning a Natural Pond

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How to clean a natural pond? We have just bought a piece of property with a pond on it, I don't know the depth yet but we are planning ...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Pond Troubleshooting

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PONDLADY HELP! I have a biological filter for my pond but I inherited the property and I don't know how to get it running. I inheri...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Small Pond Plants

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Question: I am in Caifornia and have a small container pond (32gal). Any ideas on hardy flowering plants I can add?  Not water lillies. P...
Monday, May 17, 2010

Scum on Koi pond

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Question: Koi pond problem, Help? My pond has got like a bubbly scum on top of the water. Fish are sitting at the top of water as if looki...
Sunday, May 16, 2010

Ponds and safety

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Question: How can i build a safe small garden pond? i would like to build a pond in my garden but i am worried about my younger brother...
Saturday, May 15, 2010

Murky Pond Water

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Question: Why is my koi pond water grey? I checked my pond ph and it was around 8-8.5. I did a partial water change and now the pond wate...
Friday, May 14, 2010

Tadpoles

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Question: Black commas in moving water? There were these... thing animals that were in the pond where the water comes out from. I thought ...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

Pond plant growing media

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Question: Are there pond plants that do not require any dirt/growing medium.? I bought a 'drop in plant"  at Home Depot.  Just dr...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Pelicans and Ponds

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Question: I have a fish pond in my back yard. With four (used to be five) big fish. There is a pelican that lives around my house that has ...
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