Comments on: Garden pond surveys http://thegardenpondblog.org.uk/2009/09/27/garden-pond-surveys/ "If only I had found this website last year when I started my pond!” Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:56:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Liz http://thegardenpondblog.org.uk/2009/09/27/garden-pond-surveys/#comment-697 Liz Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:28:17 +0000 http://thegardenpondblog.org.uk/?p=2822#comment-697 Abingdon pond If only I had found this website last year when I started my pond! I have obviously made it too deep and am now trying to make it more shallow by adding stones near the edges. We don't want fish and have been thrilled by the wildlife that has arrived: waves of pond skaters, snails and water boatmen, beetles, newts (adult and baby), millions of tadpoles from our resident frogs, larvae various and clouds of -daphnia?; dragonflies and grey wagtail visiting. But.... the plants I put in do not seem to be thriving and the blanket weed does. I keep taking it out but I hate continually interfering. I'm sure it is not a good thing to do as I do not believe that anything trapped in the blanket weed can escape it once it is out of the water. Can I test the water myself or does it need specialist equipment? Abingdon pond
If only I had found this website last year when I started my pond! I have obviously made it too deep and am now trying to make it more shallow by adding stones near the edges.

We don’t want fish and have been thrilled by the wildlife that has arrived: waves of pond skaters, snails and water boatmen, beetles, newts (adult and baby), millions of tadpoles from our resident frogs, larvae various and clouds of -daphnia?; dragonflies and grey wagtail visiting.

But…. the plants I put in do not seem to be thriving and the blanket weed does. I keep taking it out but I hate continually interfering. I’m sure it is not a good thing to do as I do not believe that anything trapped in the blanket weed can escape it once it is out of the water.

Can I test the water myself or does it need specialist equipment?

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