Buying a pond or you are looking at a piece of property and it has a pond. Here are some examples of what to look for or look at when you walk around the pond. The first couple quick things to do is simply look at the pond, is the water clear or cloudy? Is […]
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July fourth and the ponds are doing great so far this year. One of the most outstanding observations is the water level has stayed up full and have only dropped a few inches, but with the amount of rain we have seen the ponds topped off and flowing out their outlets. Plus the Pickerel plants
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Super Concentrated Pond Dye can stain you or anything it touches when it comes out of the bottle as you may have seen in our other videos and may have already experienced your selves. A little soft scrub with bleach will help to get it off of you or it will wear off in time.
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Managing Pond Weeds: Your Pond Toolbox Posted on Mother Earth News, link at bottom. OK, let’s get into the different tools to manage our pond weeds. The cheapest tool is our hands. Just like weeding the garden or flower bed, we can do the same in the pond to keep areas clear of weeds, manage
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Yes we are talking about the Canadian Geese, sure it is nice to see wild life come to the pond but these fowl’s can really foul up a pond. Not only do they leave behind plenty of fertilizer for the pond but when they head out to see other ponds and areas to socialize they
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Yes Spring is here and new life is beginning, perch have already laid their eggs at the pond the grass actually turned green, which looks nice but soon will have to mow. Even starting to see green at the pond with the plants starting to come back to life. Sights and sounds are all pointing
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The best time to start your sub surface aeration system is when the pond water is around 50-55 degrees. Yes it wouldn’t hurt to pull out a thermometer to check the temperature and be sure your are running a steady temp at 50-55 degrees, we are looking at the surface temperature. Why start up at
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We can finally say spring is here the ponds are doing well and the ice is off the pond. We didn’t have a fish kill but did have a few fish die, more on that in a minute. The ground is still squishy with water saturation from snow and rain and the grass; well it’s
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At Least the date on the calender says Spring is here. The week after that date we had temps in the single digits the first part of the week and the snow almost melted as the week warmed up a bit just breaking the 32 degree mark. Here comes Saturday and with it Winter storm
Winter is still holding on, although the snow has gone the ice still stands. As we do every year we keep a diffuser running near the dock and pier to protect them from heaving in the ice and more important with the open water area we allow toxic gasses that build up under the ice
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