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Post by rowanberry on Jul 1, 2022 20:00:26 GMT
It's quite a challenge cleaning the duckweed out of the pond. I bought a new skimmer I thought would make it easier, but the little wrigglers are determined to be caught no matter how hard I try and avoid them.
I now keep a pair of wooden knitting needles by the pond, and when I skim out the duckweed I use them like chopsticks to pick out the tadpoles and drop them back in.
The fringed water lily has gone mad over the past month. I hate to weed it out because it's taken so long to establish it but I think I'm going to have to. It's not one large plant, it's dozens of individual ones. I'll take a photo of it tomorrow to show how well it's doing- I'm hoping it might flower, but no sign of any lilies yet.
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Post by ianr on Jul 3, 2022 7:17:12 GMT
I now keep a pair of wooden knitting needles by the pond, and when I skim out the duckweed I use them like chopsticks to pick out the tadpoles and drop them back in.
I never could use chopsticks I'd have to use a spoon ian
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Post by rowanberry on Jul 5, 2022 9:26:59 GMT
That would be more sensible, wouldn't it?
I don't even remember how I came to be using the chopstick method... I think I had them out there to loosen up soil in pots that were becoming rootbound.
I'm sure the tads would prefer a spoon to being picked up by their tails like I've been doing!
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Post by ianr on Jul 9, 2022 10:09:26 GMT
My pond is small and I wasn't going to buy one of those very nice big pond nets so I got myself a kiddies pond dipping net it works, still a little deep and awkward. So I took an old kitchen wire mesh sieve, not very deep and around 8 inches wide taped it to a bamboo cane and it's spot on, gets in the tight spots being wire it doesn't fold up just pushes the weed out of the way and slides under the duck weed, empties easily too ian
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