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How to Winterize a Water Garden Pond

By: Christopher Smith

When winterizing a water garden pond, there are several steps to keep in mind. You must do each to ensure that your fish and plant life survive. Here's a step-by-step method for ensuring that your water garden pond thrives over the winter.

This is a guide for those with a soft pond liner. If you have a hard pond liner, you have many less steps to take, which can be found easily online. Make sure that you check which type of liner you have before you begin to winterize your pond.

First, you need to remove half of the pond's water. To do this, you will need to disconnect your pump, and reconnect the water to another hose that pumps away from your pond. This is going to make the rest of your steps much easier, by making it easier to see.

Next, you must remove your potted plants, an important step when winterizing a water garden pond. You must also trim your plant, to ensure that the leaves will not die over the winter and fall into the water, dirtying your pond and creating an unhealthy environment for the fish.

Remember not to re-pot the plants until the spring, and doing so in the fall will hurt them. You must also remember to cut your water lilies to their base, and again, if they need replanting, save that task for the spring months.

Your third step is to catch and remove your fish. When you have caught them, place them in a bucket filled with pond water. This will clear the pond so that you can continue to your next step, clearing the pond of debris. This debris makes a great mulch.

You can now place your plants back into your pond. They must be at least a foot and a half beneath the freezing line. If your plants are hardy, and are under three feet of water or more, they should be able to survive the winter months. Now it's time to return your hose to your pump.

Your final step is to return your fish to their pond. Feed them until the temperature hits fifty, and then commence with feeding again when the temperature hits fifty five. Keep a hole in the ice all winter, created by heat, and not with a hammer. And that is how you winterize a water garden pond!

Article Source: http://www.essentialgardenguide.com/gardening-articles

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