Maintenance of the Garden Pond
August 5th, 2010 | Author: Admin
A pond provides proper care and ensures a style of landscaping in the garden of the house. Therefore, the maintenance of this area should focus on three main points: plants, water and the bottom.
Pond Plants
You have to remove leaves and withered flowers. When a plant grows disproportionately and invades the place of another, should be pruned. Floating plants are often invasive and needs to control its growth.
Keep plants neatly in a pond is often difficult. One way is to separate them spatially, and this is accomplished with the use of pots. The most common are plastic with large holes, but can also be used as plastic crates that are used for laundry. In these cases, the substrate is placed at the bottom, then installed the plants that they can be covered with gravel, and finally, immerses the pots.
The water and the bottom of the garden pond
Maintain water quality consistently are difficult. It should be noted if turbid or if there are algae (scum) in excess. This may be due to lack of water movement, or increased temperature, and in these cases is recommended partially change the water in the pond.
Anyway, every so often should be cleaned thoroughly by the pond in part. This is much more comfortable if you have a pump or filter pools. In the winter, it is important to remove excess organic matter that accumulates in the bottom of the pond. To remove the filter can also be used for pools, but be careful to clean well the end of use. During the fall, there is dropping leaves falling from nearby trees.
Fishes and other animals to the pond
For good-sized pond, you can set a small ecosystem which wills not only plants but also frogs, toads, insects, snails and fish. Achieving the necessary balance for all these beings live together is the great challenge of anyone who designs and maintains water gardens. The only even are carried into the pond after several months of armed and should be placed gradually. According to the available space, there are several species suitable for ponds.
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