A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion Landscape trials and triumphs Water Gardens Pond season is upon us..................

I know - a pond heater would be great! WANNA PAY FOR IT?!?

Problem is... we went waaaaaaaaaaaaay over budget last summer on this pond, and will have very high college expenses very soon...

Loz.........hate the leaves too.....mine were netted and still are but some leaves still got in! At least it is not as bad as usual!

Lynne, maybe we should take up a fund for your pond........but then we would all be required to come weekly and enjoy it........so then we would have to have another fund for visitation rights!

loz and wendy, i have pond plants for you now that it is warming up. i'll be sending them in the next few weeks. i'll let you know.

Oh wow Jiffy, that would be so great! My pond was lacking in plants last year....when I went to buy water plants I still had a small pond---well in the big pond it just wasn't enough.

Water Hyacinths are $5 each here for a little, tiny clump of them---so anything you send will be a big help to me this year! Pond plants kill my plant budget.

Hiya Jiffy! Have any extra pond plants???

Wendy - come on over! The more the merrier! You can help us dig out the gardens that will surround the pond, and then sit back in the adirondack chair with ottoman and have a drink!

I'll be doing more digging myself Lynne. I've come to the conclusion that the rear of the pond needs a retaining wall, and then filled up and in with soil......bringing the back of the pond to the same height as the front....See it was built on a slope and Mark threw the sod to the back wall of the pond to level it out to the front of the pond.

I was telling Mark if we do that we should have a waterfall coming down in the middle of the back.

Your on your way now.. Keep on ponding and sodding. They didnt build Rome in one day........

Hooray Cindy eat half a tator.

lynne, of course i have plants to send you. and this week, i'm going after water hyacinth. i'll have plenty to share after just 2 weeks, so i'll be sending. i was going to box plants up today, but our high ended up being only 48 soooo


i think i'll start a new topic on pond plants.

Thanks Jiffy - good idea to start a new topic on pond plants.

It's still to early for me to put them out here, so would you mind waiting a bit longer to send any to me? Thanks!

not a problem i will probably have more to send by then. i'm going to try to get some bladderwort for the washtub. if it takes, i'll have that to share next year cindy wanted some...

YEA - I just ordered the mosquito fish from my county!
They are fat head minnows - is that what you have, loz?

They will be ready for pick-up on April 12th! Can't wait!

Lynne I have actual Mosquito Fish....Gambusia Affinis.....The fish you will be getting, from what I read, lay eggs----true mosquito fish have live babies. They look similar though. It's interesting that they are calling the fat head minnows, mosquito fish. The fat heads though are really good for eating mosquito larvae though.

So now you have to start a fish forum.......
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Right loz - I've been reading up on them and they do lay eggs. But they are supposed to be good at catching mosquito larvae. I just hope they don't overpopulate the pond. They are supposed to live about 2 1/2 years.

Oh yeah, they will eat the larvae good! I hope that the fish fry doesn't get eaten up too bad though.....you know, I have tons of mosquito fish in my pond each summer but I just let them be.....they are so little really and are no problem....in the fall I catch some for in my fishtank inside....I thought I'd caught them all, but obviously not since I still have about 30 left in there.