Your move into the garden pond
You only need part of a waterweed plant to create entire underwater forests. It doesn't even have to be over root feature. Various types are available in stores. Since the plant is not under nature protection, it can also come from the wild. You can get waterweed in the bottom of the pond plant or float in water.
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Tips
You can find interesting information about this aquatic plant from our Characteristics remove.
Location and water quality
The waterweed is robust and can be used in both cold and warm Water temperatures grow well and form shoots up to 3 m in length. A sunny place is required Penumbra is also acceptable. The pond water is ideally clean and clear. But even slight cloudiness and dirt are not a hindrance to growth.
Fertilize only when necessary
The waterweed draws the required nutrients from the pond water and thus prevents algae bloom. If the nutrient concentration falls below your requirement, it will indicate this with a paler leaf color.
Fertilize Only then as follows:- use a liquid fertilizer for pond plants
- Dose fertilizer cautiously
- Stop fertilizing when the deficiency symptoms disappear
Cutting and shortening are essential
Almost always you need to spread the Fight waterweedso that other aquatic plants do not fall by the wayside. Regularly thin them out or at least shorten the shoots.
The waterweed serves as a spawning area for newts. Wait with that Cut until June, until all larvae have had the opportunity to hatch. Do not drop clippings into the water, as they will grow into new plants multiply and increase the overgrowth.
Tips
Put the water weed with a Plant basket(€ 13.29 at Amazon *) into the pond so that you can later get the plant out of the pond more easily for the required volume limitation.
Winter usually takes place in the pond
Domestic waterweed are sufficiently hardy to spend the entire winter outside in a pond that is not completely frozen. Only the Argentine waterweed is partially hardy. Anyone who owns an aquarium can hibernate a piece of it in it in case the specimen freezes to death outdoors. Since this species also needs light in winter, it can also die in a pond that is under a blanket of snow.
They change color in autumn Shoots of waterweed brown and sink to the bottom of the pond. So that they do not impair the water quality through putrefaction processes, you should fish them out of the water except for a small residue.