Sunday, February 12, 2012

Spring Begin-Up For Ponds

By Bernard Richson


The days are obtaining shorter along with colder nights. Winter is on its way. As fall sets in, pond life slows down in preparation for the cold weeks ahead. Continue to complete your regular water adjustments and take additional time to eradicate any debris from the pond.

Use your swimming pool skimmer to eradicate any leaves that fall in to the pond. You should also position a plastic net above the pond to catch most leaves just before they fall in. If you opt to do so, take a appear at your nearby garden center for the bird netting applied to cover fruit trees. Together with your plants blooming and fish healthy and active, your pond will look its very best all through the summer.

Your plants will quit blooming and any spent blossoms still present will set seeds. I typically eliminate the dead blooms off my plants to encourage the plant to support keep blooming. Water lily flowers drop beneath the surface soon after they finish blooming and go on to form seeds inside the blossom head. If you remove the spent blossoms, the plant will have power to continue to make new flowers rather than generating seed.

Due to the fact the climate grows colder, the plant will quit blooming entirely. In late fall you'll need to have to prepare your plants for the winter. Hardy water lilies may well be left within the pond. Remove all dead leaves and spent blossoms from the plants as fall progresses. When there are only a couple of leaves left, move the lilies towards the deepest place of your pond. Lotuses can be treated similarly.

Eliminate all dead leaves and sink the pot to the deepest section in the pond. Your lilies and lotuses won't ordinarily survive gaining their tubers frozen. Nevertheless, it's also feasible to maintain the tubers in a cool place all through the winter. and, to full this, you'll require to get rid of the plant from its pot. Then eliminate all soil from the tuber. Remove all leaves and extended roots from the tuber.




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