Water Gardening: Pond Plant Potting Soil, 0 by snapple45

snapple45 wrote:
Pea gravel is good. I too use fertilizer tab/stakes in all the pond plant pots. I found a new fertilizer last year for flowering water plants that is outstanding, better than the Laguna stakes and Pond Tabs I was using: Highland Rim. The high middle numer - 26, phosphorus - really increases flowering.
Here is some info on it, just for information only. I've never ordered from this particular web company.
http://www.pondkoi.com/pond_plant_fertilizer.htm

I keep the koi out of the pots by fastening 100% plastic mesh fencing over the pots. The holes in the mesh are 1" squares. The holes are large enough for stems and leaves to easily grow through but keep nosy koi from rooting around. Note, the fencing is 100% plastic, not plastic coated wire. It doesn't rust or leach anything into the pond. The pic is a lotus just breaking dormancy in the spring in a 24" lotus tub.