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- Plant and shape the garden pond
- When is the best time for planting?
- The site for aquatic plant cultivation
- Planting in a pot or directly in the pond bottom?
- Tips
Leaving pond plants in the pot has several advantages
Plant and shape the garden pond
The garden pond can develop into a true paradise with the optimal planting within a few months. Planting at the garden pond, however, until the natural balance is established, some patience is required and some basic rules must also be observed.
The planting of newly built ornamental ponds should initially be a bit economical. Almost, as in the home garden, it also behaves with the pond planting, which always looks a bit sparse at the beginning and looks lost. After three years at the latest, however, the overall picture looks as it was imagined and two years later begins the laborious clearing of the water and marsh plants in and around the garden pond. Has proven in practice, that approximately 30 to 35 percent of the total surface of pond plants free being held.
When is the best time for planting?
Dough-sellers find the largest choice of plants in the trade between April and August, and the higher the water temperature rises, the better they tend to grow. If you buy plant containers, you are relatively independent from the time of planting. The baskets with the preferred solitary plants grow faster, so you can look forward to a magnificent appearance of your garden pond after a short time. For one 8 x 12 meter ornamental pond you need in about 80 to 100 plants, which in turn results in an average distance of 1.50 to 2.00 square meters, based on the entire surface of the garden pond. The first planting of a pond system is best done before the water is admitted.
The site for aquatic plant cultivation
Many plants, let's just think of the water lilies, need a lot of sunlight. Others prefer a more shady location, such as:
In particularly hot regions, the main planting should always take place in partial shade and especially if additionally a fish keeping is planned. In large-leaved plants, such as water lilies occurs usually quite quickly a strong warming of the water, which in turn almost a explosive development of filamentous algae promoted. Thus, the water quality, as is often assumed, does not deteriorate. However, you should then more often than otherwise grab the net so that the amount of algae does not rise too much.
Planting in a pot or directly in the pond bottom?
For newly created ponds, it is advantageous if initially several planting zones are prepared for different water depths. As a result, different cultures can be created independently of each other, the planting becomes easier to care for and you can effortlessly cool pond-sensitive plants in autumn to get into the house for the winter, Even if you later wish to change, plants in grid floors or pots can be exchanged much easier. The trade offers a variety of types of vessels (metal baskets, polyethylene or clay pots) for aquatic plants, which are already preferred in the substrate and have a vigorous growth.
Tips
An appropriate planting of the garden pond not only looks incredibly chic, but also clears the water almost by itself, so that can be completely dispensed chemical algaecides. And: tadpoles are also very hard-working algae eaters!