Bad Pond

Regular readers of simonburrow.com/ might be wondering why there has been no pond news since January.  The reason is that lots of bad things have been happening to the pond and I’ve been embarrassed to report.  For instance

• I replanted the Lilies and the fish dug them up and dumped the dirt out of the pots
• I tried to clean the gravel in the stream and hurt my back.
• The UV filter stopped working and I had to buy a new one.
• The fish kept eating the water hyacinths so I put an ugly plastic fence around them.
• Howard and I put some new large pots in the pond that immediately started to fester with swampy water and insect larvae.
• One of the large koi has a huge wart like growth on his/her head

Here is a picture:

But I’m working on all of the issues and I noticed that I had the same algae bloom issue last August.   So this may be a condition to manage not a problem to solve.

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