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How-to advice on getting the most out of your ponds and water gardens, including algae and weed control, building dams, adding water plants, stocking fish, and more.

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Summer Farm Pond Fish Kills
Dead fish usually means the water needs more oxygen in it
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Pond Advice: Controlling Algae
Sunlight, warm water, and fertilizer cause this problem to grow.
Controlling duckweed
Learn how to stop it from taking over your whole pond
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Assessing water quality with insects
If you see a lot of bugs in and around your pond or stream, that’s...
Controlling duckweed
Learn how to stop it from taking over your whole pond
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It's much easier to catch sediment runoff than to dredge the...
Stocking hybrid sunfish
If you have a small pond and kids who like to fish, consider stocking...
Bottom barriers for ponds
Control where the plants grow
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