{"id":604,"date":"2013-08-05T00:23:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T07:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=604"},"modified":"2013-08-05T02:43:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T09:43:38","slug":"weedy-ponds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/environmental-gardening\/weedy-ponds\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing With Weeds in Ponds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To combat Algea, Blanket Weed and Invasive aquatic species you need  to be on your guard.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 310px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pond-weed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-605\" title=\"pond-weed\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pond-weed-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"Pond Weed\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pond-weed-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pond-weed.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Pond Weed<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A small wild life pond doesn&#8217;t have to be weedy in either sense. This pond in our park for example is a fairly large size. However as you can see it is &#8216;Weedy&#8217; in the gardening sense.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Removing Blanket Weed<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Oxygenating plants are the best and organic method but may fill half the pond.<\/li>\n<li>For a small pond you can try the winding it around a stick method but roots regrow and small critters may be thrown on the compost heap with the weed.<\/li>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Sun causes growth of blanket weed and a covering of water lilies will help keep it down<\/li>\n<li>Hydrogen peroxide inhibits all algae growth and this can be created organically using straw bales made from Barley &#8211; Put some in a stocking for a smaller pond or try a chemical concentrate<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">UV filters are expensive but if you want to be sure to see your fish hang the expense.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Algae and Other Pond Weeds<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>One easy way to get rid of an algae mess is to dredge or empty  your pond. This is obviously impractical in many circumstances.<\/li>\n<li>Increased circulation in the pond will stop algae.<\/li>\n<li>Grass carp love to eat pond weeds and plants whilst young grass carp will feed on algae.<\/li>\n<li>Biocides and special herbicides can also control pond weed<\/li>\n<li>Some weeds can be lifted out or twisted around a stick and pulled out. Leave on the side to let creatures return to the pond before composting.<\/li>\n<li>Cover the pond so leaves do not accumulate. They will rot and gases given off will damage oxygen levels for fish.\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Get blanket weed buster<\/strong> <a href=\" http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B001JD5S3Q\/richardpettin-21\">from Amazon<\/a> as a  Christmas present.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Invasive Aquatic Plants<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>New Zealand Pigmyweed or Swamp Stonecrop Crassula helmsii forms a dense mat that reduces light and displaces native plants.<\/li>\n<li>Water fern Azolla filiculoides or Fairy Fern. Easily transfers and can rapidly blanket the top of a pond almost looking as though children can walk on it. Green in summer turning red in autumn.<\/li>\n<li>Floating Penywort Hydrocotyle ranunculiodes grows rapidly 8 inches a day. Reducing oxygen and thick enough to look like dry land it is a major danger.<\/li>\n<li>Water Primrose and Parrot&#8217;s Feather are also in danger of clogging waterways and out-competing native plants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See our report on<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12278\"> &#8216;Organic pond habitats for green gardeners&#8217;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clean up your pond weed with one of these tricks or tools. See how nature uses ponds to grow greenery even oif you do not want it in your pond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}