Water Gardening: Pictures from my bottom drain addition, 1 by Carolyn22

Carolyn22 wrote:
Linda

There really is no set time period in how often we drain the pond completely. If I were to guess, I would say we may average every other year or so. This past year was bad with all of the rain. The pond never had enough time to take care of itself. I am really hoping this next ponding year that things go back to normal.

The plants on the shelves pretty much take care of them selves when we empty the pond, however I do think I lost one of my new arrowheads with this last draining of the pond. When we drained the pond this last time, the waterlilies were pulled and I cut them all back. Because it takes so long to fill the pond, I put the waterlilies in the shade and I put wet newspaper over the top of them and sprayed them down periodically.

We vacuum our pond with one of those wet vacuum things that works while the pond is full. We do this in the Spring and in the Fall....