Hi everyone..
We built a pond this spring...not huge, two ponds with a stream in between...marginal plants on a shallow shelf, with about 10-make that 9 koi (one died the other day)...
Anyway, I'm getting it ready for winter...darn leaves are driving me crazy, so we put a net on the pond, and clean it out every day or so...
a book I read suggested cutting the marginal potted plants down and submerging them in the bottom of the pond...so I did, but the water's a bit brown now, although I can see clearly to the bottom.
Is the water brown from the plants, or from the decaying leaves that get into the ponds?
I have a deicer for the pond with the fish in it...do i install that once ice starts to form?
I obsessed about this pond all summer, and I'm still obsessing over it...I love it, but it's really a lot more work than I thought it would be...
Any information would be helpful!