I eventually got round to clearing the leaves from our pond today. It is a ridculous design of a foot, so one main pond and three toes, which are too small and deep to do anything. Unfortuntely these were too stagnant, and seemed to have no life in them, but the main part of the pond did have some frogspawn which is great ! and lots of larvae things I'm trying to ID. (see another post).
It was so full of leaves the water is dyed with tannins so have just been reading up on how to try and clear it. The whole thing needs taking apart but each toe a concrete lump so not sure it will ever be possible with little help and no budget
We've got a gardening day with parents after easter so hoping for lots of plant donations and its taken 2 years but hopefully getting some signs for the wildlfe garden that a parent has kindly painted for us. (its taken her 18months to get round to doing it though). Sometimes it just feels like wading through treacle to get anything done. but the kids love it when you do and that's the whole point isn't it.
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I eventually got round to clearing the leaves from our pond today. It is a ridculous design of a foot, so one main pond and three toes, which are too small and deep to do anything. Unfortuntely these were too stagnant, and seemed to have no life in them, but the main part of the pond did have some frogspawn which is great ! and lots of larvae things I'm trying to ID. (see another post).
It was so full of leaves the water is dyed with tannins so have just been reading up on how to try and clear it. The whole thing needs taking apart but each toe a concrete lump so not sure it will ever be possible with little help and no budget
We've got a gardening day with parents after easter so hoping for lots of plant donations and its taken 2 years but hopefully getting some signs for the wildlfe garden that a parent has kindly painted for us. (its taken her 18months to get round to doing it though). Sometimes it just feels like wading through treacle to get anything done. but the kids love it when you do and that's the whole point isn't it.
Keep us posted.