PondXpert Blanketweed Brush Head Pond Net

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Once it has multiplied, blanket weed can do precisely that and blanket the whole pond surface. This covering stops the submerged plants within your pond from getting the sunlight they require to live. Ruins The Look Of Your Pond

Nutrients from manures and fertilisers can be washed in to a pond by heavy rain. Ideally design and build a pond to avoid this, and do not apply these close to the pond There are around 20,000 different algae forms with over 500 species under the umbrella of blanket weed or string algae as it is also known.With large ponds and lakes, it may be best to bring in professionals – go tothe National Association of AgriculturalContractors(select ‘find a contractor and 'aquatic weed control’) or Complete Weed Control. Using ultrasound Plants are an excellent way to balance your pond. They can thrive on high levels of nutrients and can be a key indicator as to whether your pond is healthy or not.

Avoid putting soil in the pond. When adding new plants, make surethey’reinlow-nutrient, aquatic compost It is quite easy for a pond to meet the ideal conditions required for the growth of Blanket Week, hence why it is often a recurring problem. The combination of sunlight, warmer water (usually in spring and summer) and nutrients all contribute to the production of Blanket Weed in a pond. It’s important to understand that this combination is what forms the ‘hyper nutrition’ that allows Blanket Weed to thrive and that the contributing factors to the hyper nutrition are many and varied.

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If your pond is covered in algae, itcan be tempting to change the water – this may solve the immediate problem, but will only make things worse in the long run.Improving the conditions that are causing the algae to thrive (see above) will be much more effectivelong term – if you don’t, the algae will just keep returning. Organic waste and poor filtration can cause excess, unwanted nutrients to start to linger in your pond water. These nutrients are what the blanket weed feeds on and help it to multiply. Too Much Sun