WE RECYCLE!

If you have any one or two gallon black nursery planters from plant purchases last year feel free to drop them by. You can leave them by the nursery fence.

I will be creating a drop station this year.

This is a great way to help us keep prices low, and also to reduce what is going into our landfills.

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Finch Family Water Garden 772 Gold Fish Farm Rd.S.E. * Albany Oregon 97322 (541) 926-9737

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Sunday, May 3, 2009

Cleaning the Pond

I put a great deal of effort into the display pond at the house this weekend between rain showers. I cleaned the filters and pumps numerous times......I did a partial water change which ended up more than I had intended. I added Algae fix (algae killer) yesterday to help with the algae and I added Accu Clear (a floculent to clump the dead algae ) today. It looks better and is getting there, but there are no easy answers when we have neglected our ponds over the winter. Pond care is a year around task, though lighter in the winter short of getting the leaves out which can be a daily task in the fall.
Today I also added salt to the pond, and tomorrrow after I clean the filters again I will add Eco Fix (beneficial Bacteria to eat up the nutrients the the algae lives on).