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On 24/06/2018 09:28, Kipper at sea wrote:
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Don't introduce it in the first place.

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Yep, napalm.
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We use Nishikoi Clear Waters.

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On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 19:33:16 +1000, cantankerous geezer Rot Speed blabbered,
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Yep, napalm.


It would work good on you, too, Rot!

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Keep the water in motion and airiated if you can seemed to work in the old
days, except for maybe one stagnant area under a tree where, no doubt
debris got in and acted as food for the weed.
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I'm a novice to garden ponds and my friendly neighbour expert gave me
a jar of tadpoles and a variety of plants. He didn't tell me there
was duckweed and blanket weed in the mix too.


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On 24/06/2018 12:38, AnthonyL wrote:

I'm a novice to garden ponds and my friendly neighbour expert gave me
a jar of tadpoles and a variety of plants. He didn't tell me there
was duckweed and blanket weed in the mix too.


Our 'included in the price' duckweed came courtesy of the local garden
centre despite me checking carefully that there was none in their
containers. Obviously, there was some lurking in there. I'm still
netting it out as it appears two years later.

Our frogs took up residence without being invited and deposit huge
amounts of frog spawn each year that I end up taking to a pond in a park
a mile or so away. Hopefully, the new generation won't be able to make
the trip home to their place of birth.

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Is there a 100% cure for blankit weed in a garden pond


Blanket weed is an alga, and like all algae is a primitive plant. The
pea soup effect that occurs in many ponds in Spring is also an alga.
Plants, including algae, flourish where there is plenty of nitrogen
available to promote growth. In a pond, the nitrogen can come from
fish food if you have fish and you feed them generously (more
precisely, it comes from fish crap), or it can come from soil that
you've used for potting up your water plants, if you've used ordinary
garden soil and not special aquatic compost which borders on subsoil
in it's nutrient content. Another source can simply be run-off from
surrounding flowerbeds etc, in wet weather.

You can get algicides to kill the stuff off*, but I never use them.
I'm not sure how harmless they are or whether they can damage
wild-life in the pond and even goldfish (actually, the most damaging
thing to wildlife in a pond _are_ the goldfish!). The best way I've
found of keeping it at bay is never to feed the goldfish (they will
survive, but in fewer numbers and rather smaller, and it encourages
them to eat the duckweed), and only use aquatic compost for pond
plants. I get very little blanket weed, but I do still get a little,
and never get pea soup in Spring.

See https://tinyurl.com/yamwrokc and https://tinyurl.com/yay3f5tk


I don't think it grows well in shade.

Sadly our pond forms part of the yard drainage system so gets lots of
nutrients in very wet weather. I use the lawn rake to harvest the stuff
(left on the pond surround so livestock can crawl back) and then compost
it.


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On 24/06/2018 09:28, Kipper at sea wrote:
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Yes.
Cloverleaf Blanket Answer.
You really need to know the volume of your pond then mix it up and watch
your pond turn into a pool of milk for a number of days.

I find it best to remove as much weed as possible before dosing but once
dosed it keeps the stuff at bay for the rest of the year.

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On 24/06/2018 09:28, Kipper at sea wrote:
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I filled in the pond.

Seriously, before that, every now an then (may be 2 years), I drained
the pond, cleared the weed and gunge, and refilled. The pond was 12'x6'
and may be 2' deep at the deepest point. I put the fish in a paddling
pool. It was such a chore, I gave the fish away and filled in the pond.

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On 24/06/18 22:03, www.GymRatZ.co.uk wrote:
On 24/06/2018 09:28, Kipper at sea wrote:
Is there a 100% cure for blankit weed in a garden pond


Yes.
Cloverleaf Blanket Answer.
You really need to know the volume of your pond then mix it up and watch
your pond turn into a pool of milk for a number of days.

I find it best to remove as much weed as possible before dosing but once
dosed it keeps the stuff at bay for the rest of the year.


the cure for blanket weed is to wait patiently until something that
feeds on it eats it.

It covered my new pond years ago, then something colonised the pond and
ate it all, and it never came back
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On 24/06/18 22:03, www.GymRatZ.co.uk wrote:
On 24/06/2018 09:28, Kipper at sea wrote:
Is there a 100% cure for blankit weed in a garden pond

Yes.
Cloverleaf Blanket Answer.
You really need to know the volume of your pond then mix it up and watch
your pond turn into a pool of milk for a number of days.
I find it best to remove as much weed as possible before dosing but
once
dosed it keeps the stuff at bay for the rest of the year.


the cure for blanket weed is to wait patiently until something that
feeds on it eats it.

It covered my new pond years ago, then something colonised the pond and
ate it all, and it never came back


Possibly it used up the available nutrients? Although decomposing at the
bottom of your pond should return them over time.

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