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"Dear Sandro, Some of our customers complain that the pond is too much work, things grow to quick, algae and pond weeds invade or leaves blow into the pond?"
Most of our customers are a lazy lot, which is great, because that means that they relax a bit and let nature take it's course. A pond will fill up over time, especially a small poorly designed one. I suggest filling the pond with a source of flowing water or direct roof rainwater into the pond to keep the pond clean. This requires an outlet so an old style soak-away pit filled with stones will send overflow washed out water deep into the ground where it belongs. The flow will help keep the pond clean.
I created a well designed pond for a customer in 1988, Within weeks the dog bust the liner, by Autumn the pond filled with leaves as well as having algae blooms and pondweed. We added the Old bale of barley straw which helped and raked the pond weed off. It took 5 years for the water to clear. I taught fish would help keep it clean but they got eaten by the Grey Heron.
In the end we gave up and the pond was treated to a new liner and cleaned out.
Today the same problems persist and except for the bust liner nothing changed, but you know I have spent more time watching the wildlife in that pond than any other. We strim around the edge every few years and its fine. The pond is 7 miles from Dublin City
centre. In the evening when the birds are starting to roost and early in the morning about twenty species of birds drink, and sing. their hearths out, that's what wildlife gardening is all about. Chill out and let Nature fill your pond then you have a marsh and eventually the pond will become a bog
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SHOP
