Pond/Waterfall Questions

We moved into our home this past May. We bought the house
from my bestfriend. With the house we inherited a Waterfall and
Pond. We LOVE IT!! We have never spent so much time in a
backyard before now.
Anyway, now that winter is coming we will need to shut down
the watefall. We can't afford to run it and the furnace. It has
a very large pump to pump the water up 14ft to the top. So
as you can imagine it is a little spendy to run but well worth it.
My question is should we drain the pond? Or leave the water in?
If we don't drain it how do we keep the water from stagnating?
We don't have any fish in it right now.
Also when is the best time to put plants in the pond? Here is
a link to the waterfall
http://www.integrity.com/homes/Nikki...r_new_home.htm
as you can see the pond could use some kind of plants in it.
Does anyone have any good websites on pond care?
Thanks!!


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Terrific water fall !




On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:38:36 -0700, "GoldLexus2000"
wrote:

We moved into our home this past May. We bought the house
from my bestfriend. With the house we inherited a Waterfall and
Pond. We LOVE IT!! We have never spent so much time in a
backyard before now.
Anyway, now that winter is coming we will need to shut down
the watefall. We can't afford to run it and the furnace. It has
a very large pump to pump the water up 14ft to the top. So
as you can imagine it is a little spendy to run but well worth it.
My question is should we drain the pond? Or leave the water in?
If we don't drain it how do we keep the water from stagnating?
We don't have any fish in it right now.
Also when is the best time to put plants in the pond? Here is
a link to the waterfall
http://www.integrity.com/homes/Nikki...r_new_home.htm
as you can see the pond could use some kind of plants in it.
Does anyone have any good websites on pond care?
Thanks!!


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Terrific water fall !




On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:38:36 -0700, "GoldLexus2000"
wrote:

We moved into our home this past May. We bought the house
from my bestfriend. With the house we inherited a Waterfall and
Pond. We LOVE IT!! We have never spent so much time in a
backyard before now.
Anyway, now that winter is coming we will need to shut down
the watefall. We can't afford to run it and the furnace. It has
a very large pump to pump the water up 14ft to the top. So
as you can imagine it is a little spendy to run but well worth it.
My question is should we drain the pond? Or leave the water in?
If we don't drain it how do we keep the water from stagnating?
We don't have any fish in it right now.
Also when is the best time to put plants in the pond? Here is
a link to the waterfall
http://www.integrity.com/homes/Nikki...r_new_home.htm
as you can see the pond could use some kind of plants in it.
Does anyone have any good websites on pond care?
Thanks!!


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If you have no fish you don't need to do anything to it, when it gets cold
enough that you have frozen water , shut off the pump. leave the plants
alone, just clean off the dead stuff and put lilies on the bottom of the
pond.

GoldLexus2000 wrote in message
...
We moved into our home this past May. We bought the house
from my bestfriend. With the house we inherited a Waterfall and
Pond. We LOVE IT!! We have never spent so much time in a
backyard before now.
Anyway, now that winter is coming we will need to shut down
the watefall. We can't afford to run it and the furnace. It has
a very large pump to pump the water up 14ft to the top. So
as you can imagine it is a little spendy to run but well worth it.
My question is should we drain the pond? Or leave the water in?
If we don't drain it how do we keep the water from stagnating?
We don't have any fish in it right now.
Also when is the best time to put plants in the pond? Here is
a link to the waterfall
http://www.integrity.com/homes/Nikki...r_new_home.htm
as you can see the pond could use some kind of plants in it.
Does anyone have any good websites on pond care?
Thanks!!


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If you have no fish you don't need to do anything to it, when it gets cold
enough that you have frozen water , shut off the pump. leave the plants
alone, just clean off the dead stuff and put lilies on the bottom of the
pond.

GoldLexus2000 wrote in message
...
We moved into our home this past May. We bought the house
from my bestfriend. With the house we inherited a Waterfall and
Pond. We LOVE IT!! We have never spent so much time in a
backyard before now.
Anyway, now that winter is coming we will need to shut down
the watefall. We can't afford to run it and the furnace. It has
a very large pump to pump the water up 14ft to the top. So
as you can imagine it is a little spendy to run but well worth it.
My question is should we drain the pond? Or leave the water in?
If we don't drain it how do we keep the water from stagnating?
We don't have any fish in it right now.
Also when is the best time to put plants in the pond? Here is
a link to the waterfall
http://www.integrity.com/homes/Nikki...r_new_home.htm
as you can see the pond could use some kind of plants in it.
Does anyone have any good websites on pond care?
Thanks!!


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great yard , also forgot don't leave the pump out of water but don;t let it
freeze. Put it in a bucket of water in the garage, you need to keep the
rubber seals wet.

GoldLexus2000 wrote in message
...
We moved into our home this past May. We bought the house
from my bestfriend. With the house we inherited a Waterfall and
Pond. We LOVE IT!! We have never spent so much time in a
backyard before now.
Anyway, now that winter is coming we will need to shut down
the watefall. We can't afford to run it and the furnace. It has
a very large pump to pump the water up 14ft to the top. So
as you can imagine it is a little spendy to run but well worth it.
My question is should we drain the pond? Or leave the water in?
If we don't drain it how do we keep the water from stagnating?
We don't have any fish in it right now.
Also when is the best time to put plants in the pond? Here is
a link to the waterfall
http://www.integrity.com/homes/Nikki...r_new_home.htm
as you can see the pond could use some kind of plants in it.
Does anyone have any good websites on pond care?
Thanks!!


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great yard , also forgot don't leave the pump out of water but don;t let it
freeze. Put it in a bucket of water in the garage, you need to keep the
rubber seals wet.

GoldLexus2000 wrote in message
...
We moved into our home this past May. We bought the house
from my bestfriend. With the house we inherited a Waterfall and
Pond. We LOVE IT!! We have never spent so much time in a
backyard before now.
Anyway, now that winter is coming we will need to shut down
the watefall. We can't afford to run it and the furnace. It has
a very large pump to pump the water up 14ft to the top. So
as you can imagine it is a little spendy to run but well worth it.
My question is should we drain the pond? Or leave the water in?
If we don't drain it how do we keep the water from stagnating?
We don't have any fish in it right now.
Also when is the best time to put plants in the pond? Here is
a link to the waterfall
http://www.integrity.com/homes/Nikki...r_new_home.htm
as you can see the pond could use some kind of plants in it.
Does anyone have any good websites on pond care?
Thanks!!


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You don't have to worry about cold
water going all yukky on you.

With fish most of us turn off pumps,
waterfalls and fountains for the winter.

Try these websites for pond information
http://www.pondrushes.net/
and
http://www.geocities.com/bickal2000/pond.htm
and
http://www.fishpondinfo.com

k30a
and the watergardening labradors
http://www.geocities.com/watergarden...dors/home.html

You don't have to worry about cold
water going all yukky on you.

With fish most of us turn off pumps,
waterfalls and fountains for the winter.

Try these websites for pond information
http://www.pondrushes.net/
and
http://www.geocities.com/bickal2000/pond.htm
and
http://www.fishpondinfo.com

k30a
and the watergardening labradors
http://www.geocities.com/watergarden...dors/home.html

The pump is a submiserable one. It sits in the bottom of the pond. If
we don't drain the pond wouldn't the pump be fine in the water. I live
in Clackamas OR (outside of Portland) we do get some freezing but not
for extended amounts of time.

"ponder" wrote in message
...
great yard , also forgot don't leave the pump out of water but don;t let
it
freeze. Put it in a bucket of water in the garage, you need to keep the
rubber seals wet.

GoldLexus2000 wrote in message
...
We moved into our home this past May. We bought the house
from my bestfriend. With the house we inherited a Waterfall and
Pond. We LOVE IT!! We have never spent so much time in a
backyard before now.
Anyway, now that winter is coming we will need to shut down
the watefall. We can't afford to run it and the furnace. It has
a very large pump to pump the water up 14ft to the top. So
as you can imagine it is a little spendy to run but well worth it.
My question is should we drain the pond? Or leave the water in?
If we don't drain it how do we keep the water from stagnating?
We don't have any fish in it right now.
Also when is the best time to put plants in the pond? Here is
a link to the waterfall
http://www.integrity.com/homes/Nikki...r_new_home.htm
as you can see the pond could use some kind of plants in it.
Does anyone have any good websites on pond care?
Thanks!!


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