How to Prepare Your Garden Pond for Cold Weather
Seeing as you’ve managed to locate this site means you have a healthy respect for how dangerous cold weather can be on your ponds health. Luckily you’ve come to the right place. What I aim to do is give you a list of helpful tips to make sure your pond remains healthy throughout winter but these tips can be used throughout the year. So let’s get going.
You will no doubt know where your oxygenatingplants are. If they are beginning to poke out of the water you should trim them down. The reason being, that if they are the ice will kill this part anyway and will create unnecessary pollution once it dies.
- For the same reason fish out any leafs and foliage from the pond as they are also likely to cause pollution once the ice freezes over.
- If you have any pond equipment like oxygenators and pumps get them serviced before the cold sets in.
- Do not break up the ice with a hammer. The shockwaves could ricochet through the pond and kill all your fish. A better way to tackle this issue is to anchor a bottle to the pond and pour hot water into it to slowly melt the ice. This stops harmful gases building up.
- Alternatively you could buy a pond heater which will keep your pond frost free.
- Finally, if you do leave the ice on your pond with a small hole in the middle any build up of snow should be brushed off as it will block the light and halt photosynthesis.
So if you follow these simple tips your pond will come bursting out into spring healthy and raring to go. It’s not as much work as it sounds. No you’ll be able to sit back and relax on your favourite piece of gardenfurniture and admire your hard work.
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