Comments on: Keeping Leaves Out of Your Water Garden with Pond Netting – Water Garden Q & A http://blog.thepondguy.com/2008/09/19/keeping-leaves-out-of-your-water-garden-with-pond-netting-water-garden-q-a-week-ending-september-20th/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:41:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: thepondguy http://blog.thepondguy.com/2008/09/19/keeping-leaves-out-of-your-water-garden-with-pond-netting-water-garden-q-a-week-ending-september-20th/#comment-154 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:49:54 +0000 http://thepondguy.wordpress.com/?p=302#comment-154 Randall Morse,

You may disrupt pond life by removing the leaves off the bottom of the water garden, but to do a spring or fall clean-out is very normal. Even though some of the pond life will get disrupted, you can be assured that your water garden will still be full of life come next season.

Having an abundance of leaves and muck on the bottom is a food source for algae. By removing as much as you can before winter, this will help keep the early spring algae blooms to a minimum.

]]> By: Randall Morse http://blog.thepondguy.com/2008/09/19/keeping-leaves-out-of-your-water-garden-with-pond-netting-water-garden-q-a-week-ending-september-20th/#comment-147 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:27:47 +0000 http://thepondguy.wordpress.com/?p=302#comment-147 I don’t want to use netting. Usually I remove floating leaves on a regular basis. I had been letting the “sinkers” just go to the bottom. Now I plan on raking them off the bottom after the leaves have all fallen. Will this disrupt hybernating frogs and other pond life? Will I disrupt the bottom too much that will cause unforseen problems? My pond is pretty small and no more than ~4′ deep.

Your comments will be appreciated.

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