Bustaspoke wrote: ↑Wed Oct 04, 2023 12:28 pm
In the garage testing ignition compents on the currentley sparkless XT600
and as it's finally stopped raining for a day I've been winching & digging these out of my little pond.I only put the pond in 3 years ago & I'm made up that it's got frogs or toads in it,but these waters edge plants have seeded & tried to take over.They weren't even there 3 years back
This afternoon's dilema,pushbike or motorbike..
We had a pond about that size which got no maintenance and it was pretty silted up and the plants went a bit wild - but it got loads of frogs, toads, newts etc. Had a project and made it quite a bit bigger, put a pump in it and used the rockery to make a small stream with waterfalls etc, to keep it oxygenated. Put a lot of marginals and oxygenators in.
It's more
work than the rest of the garden! First it went bright green, which I got sorted so the blanket weed moved in. Not the sort that sits on the top that you can haul off, the sort that's long thin strands that mat together and choke the oxygenators.
The water beetles, skaters and waterboatpersons all moved in in pleasing numbers. The frogs etc not so much. There's a resident great crested newt and I've seen 1 frog. If I pull out anything from the bottom it's full of dragonfly larvae but unless there's spawn in spring they'll have nothing much to eat...unless they like insects instead of tadpoles.
Ho hum. It keeps me occupied.
