How Do I Keep My Pond From Turning Green?

Article by: Mark Washburn

With the arrival of spring , Landscaping - Maintaining A Landscaped Garden and summer, , Choosing the Proper Pond Pump that once clear and picture perfect pond , Protecting your Garden from Pesky Predators is now turning a soupy shade of green. , How to Clone with Success It makes viewing fish , Protecting your Garden Pond from Pesky Predators nearly impossible and takes a lot of fun out of owning a pond , Balcony, Patio, and Courtyard Gardening or water garden. , Constructing a Rock

It's a common problem for a lot of pond , Wooden Garden Benches owners.

What your looking at is actually very small, nearly microscopic size plants , Harvesting Herbs called algae. When all of these little critters group together and get so dense they can literally shade the water , Dream Yard and turn it into what appears to be a solid green , Balcony, Patio, and Courtyard Gardening mass.

Now let's be clear on this. We're not talking about a light , Flower Bulbs in Dry Climate tint of green , Wooden You Like to Know? A Primer to Wood Outdoor Furnishings in the water, , Vacation Proofing your Garden which is actually a really good sign. We're talking about water , Using the Right Hedge Trimmers in Lawn Care that is so green , Summer Gardening is All Weeding and Watering! that you can't see an inch or two under the surface!

For the most part, the biggest problem with planktonic algae is really the view and the disappointment of the pond , Solar Lights for Walkways - Cut Costs owner. Fish , Wooden Garden Benches generally can tolerate green water , Landscaping - Maintaining A Landscaped Garden ok, although even they have limits.

The good news is, that even though green water , Natural Pond Filters - Let Nature Do the Hard Work! can be a challenge to treat, there are options and solutions. Since what we're really dealing with his is algae...we want to take a standard approach to dealing with any algae problem.

First of all, be sure to try to identify the support or nutrient source that is supporting this algae growth. Do you have too many fish , Watering Your Garden - How to Make Each Drop Count in the pond , Using the Right Hedge Trimmers in Lawn Care for it's size? A good rule of thumb for this is 1 inch of fish , The Indoor Garden: Plants that Clean the Air for every 10 gallons of water , Soil Plus Compost Equals Lush Healthy Plants in the pond. , Choosing the Proper Pump Any more than this and you might be overstocked.

When fish , Henry Doubleday Research Association are overstocked, they produce more waste material than plants , s, Birds, Love and Deer Hate and naturally occuring bacteria can keep up with. When this happens, there is a large excess of nutrients in the water , Grow the BEST Tasting Tomatoes which fosters aggressive plant , Summer Gardening is All Weeding and Watering! growth...like algae.

Nutrients can also come from decaying matter that may fall , Basil: The King of Herbs into or lie at the bottom of the pond. , Constructing a Rock Garden Like a compost , Landscaping - Maintaining A Landscaped Garden pile for your garden, , Constructing a Rock this decaying matter simply adds more nutrients into the water, , Find Peace And Happiness Through Gardening which is something you don't want or need if you already have algae.

Finally, be sure to check for run off into the pond. , How to Plant Shrubs Most homeowners work really hard to make their lawns , The Indoor Garden: Plants that Clean the Air and landscapes , Basil: The King of Herbs look really nice. If your adding fertilizer to your lawn , Gardening or anywhere around the pond, , Wooden You Like to Know? A Primer to Wood Outdoor Furnishings there's a good chance that some of it can runoff into the water. , Make a Plan for Vacation ing ...thereby adding more nutrients to the water. , Invisible Fences

So, your first objective to combat green water , Gardening as a Hobby is to try and reduce these nutrient influences.

If you do that and still have an algae problem, the next thing to consider is adding a benefical bacteria and enzyme product , Natural Pond Filters - Let Nature Do the Hard Work! to the pond, , Henry Doubleday Research Association or adding more plants , Harvesting Herbs to help control or balance out some of the nutrients. In most cases, using one or the other, or a combination of both will help quite a bit.

And here's a final word for caution. If you have fish , Make a Plan for Vacation Watering in the pond, , The Beauty of Basil I'd strongly advise against using any type of algaecide product. , Dream Yard It's very hard to treat green water , The Beauty of Basil with an algaecide in my opinion without doing some harm to fish. , Summer Gardening is All Weeding and Watering! Many pond , Natural Filters - Let Nature Do the Hard Work! owners have written to experess their dismay of misapplying a copper , Gardening based aglaecide and losing all of their fish , Dream Yard in a very short time.

Try the natural , The Art of Painting Trees and Shrubs and progressive options first and if need be, contact a local , Soil Plus Compost Equals Lush Healthy Plants pond professional to help get your pond , Balcony, Patio, and Courtyard Gardening back into balance in the safest way possible.

Mark Washburn is an experienced pond , Make a Plan for Vacation Watering management specialists with an emphasis in algae control for commercial pond , The Basics Of Building Your Own Greenhouse applications. Learn more about pond , Find Peace And Happiness Through Gardening algae and pond , What Does A Brassia Orchid Plant And A Spider Have In Common? care at the Algae Solution website.

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