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Garden Pond Renovation

BenDoverBenDover Posts: 488
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Is now a good time to renovate a tired garden pond? No sign of any frog spawn yet.  Have plants in baskets which are all a bit past their best and need replacing and the water mint has taken over a bit.

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  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543

    I would say yes! I did mine 2 weeks ago.Keep on the lookout for any wildlife and keep in a bucket.

    If you have the space leave a lot of the pond debris nearby so things can crawl back in.

    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016

    Sooner rather than later.  I'm amazed you haven't seen any frogs yet.  When I had a pond we generally saw them from mid Feb onwards.

  • LittleMissSunshineLittleMissSunshine Posts: 139
    KT53 says:

    Sooner rather than later.  I'm amazed you haven't seen any frogs yet.  When I had a pond we generally saw them from mid Feb onwards.

    See original post

     Indeed there have been one or two sitings of frog spawn already, guess it depends where you are.

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117

    Depends entirely on where you are. Frogspawn won't appearround here for a while yet.

    If you're worried Tim, decant the contents into another container,  or containers, of some kind so that your 'facilities' are still there  image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053

    Checked my pond yesterday. and discovered a dead goldfish. Now girding my loins to remove it! I am a bit squeamish when it comes to things like that. 

    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
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