I HAVE A WORKING POND

Woo Hoo – my pond is working again!

Water was escaping and then the pump quit but all is well. It’s gone from this:

to THIS:

The very nice young man who came by and looked at it pulled out the pump – it was totally covered with the roots (?) and stringy stuff hanging off the water lillys. He took it apart, cleaned it out with the hose and and put it back in and it worked great. Then he explained how the upper part of the pond was too full of plants and proceeded to clean out enough of them so the water could flow better. The boys are going to pull out some more (about half of what you can see in the picture) this evening when they come over. I took all the water lillys from the bottom part of the pond out since they’ve finished blooming anyway and are in the process of dying. Next spring I’m going to try water lettuce instead because it won’t have all the under water stuff that will clog the pump AND the fish like to eat water lettuce. Here are some more pics of what the pond looks like now.

The plants kind of make a mat and there are too many of them for the water to flow freely. Hopefully taking out the front half will totally solve the problem.