Help Please!

captain039-recponds wrote:

I'm new to the group, and we've had our pond for 2 seasons now. Last
year, everything worked out very well after the initial break-in
period. This year, we have a very bad case of string algae (I think),
and I've drained the pond. Now that the pond is drained, what is the
best bet to get rid of the algae, so I don't have it in the spring.

Just scrub it down (_without_ soap). But it will still come back in the
spring. imo, draining a pond to deal with algae is a bad idea. Algae
grows in the presence of sunlight and nitrates. The best solution then is
to grow enough other plants to shade the subsurface water and use up all

Meanwhile, string algae is fairly easily controlled with a stick - twirl
around, pull out, dump in compost...
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derek