Some plants are good for the pond and surrounding the pond and then there are the bad guys who while take over the entire area. Phragmites is one of the bad guys. Where do they come from? There a plenty of ways the bad guys get transported. Birds and wildlife can be the vehicle of […]
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Update on our previous posts about the geese…The geese have left the pond. Well that was an experience and a total mess left from the geese each and every day. I forget which way it is but it’s either 2 or 3 geese equal one cow for the fertilizer left behind each day. There is
I did a post a long time ago about the Outer Banks of North Carolina more about purchasing a home or condo but here I want to tell you more about the vacation time, what we have done there and why we like the OBX (Outer Banks) time away. We use to go camping at
Every now and then you may see something strange in the middle of the field, yard or driveway. At first it looks like a big ole rock that wasn’t there before. This happened a couple years ago to me coming up the drive from work and I just to myself “where did that come from?”
Spring update at the pond. Wild life at the pond, In a recent post we talked about spring taking forever to get here and by the time it did arrive we ended up with geese hanging out at the pond, even though we chased them off each day, they are persistent and apparently bull headed.
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Ponds that have lived through a drought have a potential to leak once the water level fills back up. Scary thought but follow along and see what can happen. As the summer months get hotter and hotter evaporation continues to remove water from the pond along with any seeps or leaks that allow the water
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Winter just wouldn’t let go and by time it did it was too late. Spring arrived at WhatPond and the two legged nutrient machines have been coming around for a month now and it didn’t take much to get them to leave, simply walk towards them and off they go. Our usual geese deterrent is
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It’s been a long winter season, but after last year’s drought I guess we shouldn’t complain too much. This is a time to replenish the ponds and saturate the earth so we can hopefully have better crops, fuller ponds and water to drink. Global warming. Never thought there was such a thing but I would
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First and the most important is saving our pond and fish during the summer months when thermal stratification occurs, aeration keeps the zone broken and the toxic gasses out of the pond while replacing the gasses with oxygen allowing more fish to use the entire pond since the oxygen is deeper in the pond. Winter
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Aeration or aerating ponds and lakes or adding oxygen can and will benefit the body of water but only if it is properly sized for the depth and volume of water. Over the years we sort of experimented as most do since that was all you would hear about to fix a pond “add oxygen”
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