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- How to bring the hornbeam into your pond
- How do you plant a plant without roots?
- Does the horn blade fit in every pond?
- The essentials in brief:
- Tips
Horn leaf cleans the water
How to bring the hornbeam into your pond
The hornbeam is a rootless aquatic plant that feels comfortable in stagnant or less-moving waters and improves the water quality there. The water temperature does not play an important role. So the horn blade is good for garden ponds.
How do you plant a plant without roots?
The horn blade is not planted but simply placed in the pond. There it sinks by itself a little in the depth or drives directly at the water surface. All necessary nutrients absorb it via root-like processes directly from the water and produce abundant oxygen. This is especially interesting when fish live in the pond.
The horn blade grows rapidly and clears the water, as long as it is sufficiently supplied. If it has done its job well, it sinks to the ground and decomposes there. As a result, the pond easily silted up.
Although there are still some hornbeam plants left, which cleanse the water again, but the effect decreases over time. You prevent this cycle by limiting the spread of the hornbeam in time. If necessary, they fish for superfluous plants and prune the ones left in the pond.
Does the horn blade fit in every pond?
If the water quality in your garden pond is already good or very good, then you really do not need a horn blade. On the contrary, it could even hurt your pond, at least if it is also low in nutrients. Because if the horn blade does not get enough nutrients, then it sinks to the ground and decomposes there. This leads to an increasing siltation of the pond, without you having a benefit of the horn blade.
If your garden pond suffers from large amounts of filamentous algae, then it also makes no sense to introduce hornbeam there. It would clump together with the thread algae and suffocate. If you fish the thread algae as well as possible before you bring the horn blade into the pond, then it can do its job well there.
The essentials in brief:
Tips
Do not plant the horn-blade in the bottom of the pond, because it has no roots. Instead, it absorbs nutrients via root-like processes directly from the water.