Water Gardening: Keeping fish in the pond during the rainy season?, 1 by salvia_lover

salvia_lover wrote:
Thanks for all the additional feedback everyone.

Magpye, unfortunately, we are just now approaching our rainy season. We actually got our first rains early last week. Then lots of dry weather since. But in a few more weeks, the steady rains will be upon us and won't let up much at all for several months. Our rainy season lasts from early-mid October until the end of April (although the beginning and end of that period don't have nearly as much rain as the middle 3 months).

I would never be able to keep up with bailing water out of the little pond all winter. And the idea of covering it with a table would be great if not for the need for the plants to get whatever piddly bit of sunshine might come their way throughout the winter. So I devised a simple "dam" all around the edges of the pond. It sure aint the prettiest thing in the world, but it should work.....and who cares if their garden if pretty or not during a torential downpour? ;-) I took a rectangle of window screening and stapled it to the top of the pond. then took an exacto knife and cut out the center. The screening should allow the excess water to flow out unimpeded yet keep the pond plants and pondlife inside the box. Time will tell soon enough if I'm right LOL.

-Julie

(ignore the less than ideal condition of the tall plant in the pond LOL)