It is lovely, I think when the doddery dog departs this world (he's ended up in the container pond twice) I shall console myself with a bigger wildlife pond.
I wouldn't really want one any smaller than the one I've got, it does look pretty small, and I put 5 plants but I can see that two are already being out-competed.
The mini pond has gone really manky over the winter, any ideas on how to get rid of the green sludge and generally murkiness? It froze over a few times too despite my best efforts so a bit worried there may be dead frogs in there
The frogs will be under frozen water, I doubt the ice was more than an inch or so thick.
Is the green sludge as in mud or blanket weed? You can buy eco friendly treatments for the latter, we’ve just popped our first sachet in yesterday. Usually we would also scoop some of weed out but the frogspawn has already appeared.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
The frogs will be under frozen water, I doubt the ice was more than an inch or so thick.
Is the green sludge as in mud or blanket weed? You can buy eco friendly treatments for the latter, we’ve just popped our first sachet in yesterday. Usually we would also scoop some of weed out but the frogspawn has already appeared.
The ice was about 2 inches at one point in the cold snap. Hopefully they will be ok then, but I definitely don't want to disturb them anymore! I'm not really sure exactly what I'm looking at, its a combo of green slimy stuff and a general murk brownness to the water. I'll get a picture in a bit.
Well sadly it looks like I'm going to have to get rid of the pond. The blind dog now has canine dementia too, and I haven't been able to come up with a way to stop him falling in that doesn't also block access to the pond for the frogs, thereby defeating the whole object!
Sad day, does anybody in Greater Manchester, Bolton or Wigan want a dwarf water lily that's got about 4 pads up, no flowers yet though.
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Is the green sludge as in mud or blanket weed? You can buy eco friendly treatments for the latter, we’ve just popped our first sachet in yesterday. Usually we would also scoop some of weed out but the frogspawn has already appeared.
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
Sad day, does anybody in Greater Manchester, Bolton or Wigan want a dwarf water lily that's got about 4 pads up, no flowers yet though.