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Blanket Weed in Pond

NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
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It has wrapped itself around my 6 oxygenating bunches and the "leaves " on them are dieing off so i will replace them.

?What do you use to control the weed please.
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  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Recommended as a Which? Best Buy, I use Nishikoi Clear Waters. It’s brilliant having kept my pond entirely free of blanket weed all summer. Our pond is about 3.5 x 4.5 metres and is in full sun all day.
    Rutland, England
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    No blanket weed in my little pond and the leaves on several of my oxygenating plants and marginals are starting to die back - I'm guessing it's because it's autumn now

    Billericay - Essex

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  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
    • Ceratophyllum demersum - Hornwort are sent as bareroot portions (loose) as this submerged oxygenating plant floats freely in the water. Drop this into the pond to find its own depth. No weighting is required. 
    • Other submerged oxygenating plants are sent as a weighted bunch per portion (Fontinalis antipyretica, Myriophyllum spicatum, Ranunculus aquatilis and Potamogeton crispus).
    • Oxygenators photosynthesize to produce oxygen during daylight hours which keeps the water fresh.
    • Submerged oxygenators use dissolved nitrates and mineral salts from the pond water and compete with algae growth for the nutrients.

    BenCotto.

    Thanks for that.

    These are the options from the supplier I use.

    My pond is only 3 x 4 foot and 1 foot deep and only has 2 frogs at the moment.

    ? Do you have any thoughts on the options i have to purchase.

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  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    A 1 litre tub on eBay will cost £16.95 and that will give you sufficient for two or three treatments a year for the next 10 years. The product stores for a long time if kept dry and is harmless to pond life, animal and vegetable.
    Rutland, England
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    You can also twizzle it out with a stick/cane. Quite satisfying.  :)

    Watercress is good early in the year too. It feeds on the stuff the blanket weed likes. You just chuck it in. 
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    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    @Fairygirl  I have watercress in my pond  which is free of blanket weed but have just extracted some blanket weed from around the oxygen plant with a long stick.  I have left it to dry on the side of the pond in the hot sun!  Quite satisfying as you say!!
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I don't bother so much with the wildlife pond @tuikowhai34, but I made a little pond just for my water lily [girls gave me it as  a present] and when I had nothing to do out there in summer, I spent quite a lot of time twizzling   ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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