Two ponds with zero TLC

[vicious5id]

Quick update on my first attempt last night:

I started to pull out the plants from the small pond. I managed to cut away most of the "lilly" leaves from one bit of it.

I have managed to pull out two separate sets of roots! It's strange the plant has really dug itself into the pond.

There is one more set of roots still left in the small pond. This last set seems to have spread to the bottom of the small pond and grown into the horrible silt/muck at the bottom. I tried to pull the lot out last night, but it's very heavy. I'm going to need a hand to lift the whole lot out. I'm having to hack most of the plant away in order to reduce the sheer weight of it!

Once the plant is out, how do I go about taking the water out of the pond? Should I scoop it out with bucket or pump it out?

 

[addy1]

If you have a sump pump or any pump that can handle solids a pump would work, or use a bucket.

When I had a plant get to big, used loppers, started at the edge and picked away at it until I could get it out. Make sure you don't cut the liner...............lol

A carefully used flat shovel can be used to get the muck out of the bottom of it.

 

[stroppy]

Quick update on my first attempt last night:

I started to pull out the plants from the small pond. I managed to cut away most of the "lilly" leaves from one bit of it.

I have managed to pull out two separate sets of roots! It's strange the plant has really dug itself into the pond.

There is one more set of roots still left in the small pond. This last set seems to have spread to the bottom of the small pond and grown into the horrible silt/muck at the bottom. I tried to pull the lot out last night, but it's very heavy. I'm going to need a hand to lift the whole lot out. I'm having to hack most of the plant away in order to reduce the sheer weight of it!

Once the plant is out, how do I go about taking the water out of the pond? Should I scoop it out with bucket or pump it out?

be careful the roots of those plants may have grown into the liner !!! also if you have a leak in that top pond you cant run the water from one pond to the other as you will loose water (if that makes sense)

 

[j.w]

Stroppy, are we talking about roots growing through thick rubber liner? Cuz I never heard of that happening. We talked about it here once and I think we all came to the conclusion that it doesn't happen w/ pond plants. Maybe you have some other info we don't know about. Give it up if you do
Or maybe you are talking about if there is already a hole in the liner put there by something else and that the plant roots have gone through?

 

[sissy]

I did saw one on you tube it was pond something or other that was showing how they clean and restore ponds and the roots of a plant he showed had eaten away at the liner ..It was one of those companies that do pond restoration .Not sure how long the plant had been growing there but it took half the pond volume of water .

 

[j.w]

Gosh I didn't think it was possible, wonder what kind of plant would do that? Maybe it was the thinner type of liner?

 

[sissy]

not sure they never said it was something I happened to be watching on you tube the plant was tall and looked like an iris .He may have said but memory fails me

 

[j.w]

Wonder if it was a cattail?

 

[sissy]

I know he mention it hd very hardy and aggresive roots .Been looking on you tube but have not found it yet

 

[stroppy]

Stroppy, are we talking about roots growing through thick rubber liner? Cuz I never heard of that happening. We talked about it here once and I think we all came to the conclusion that it doesn't happen w/ pond plants. Maybe you have some other info we don't know about. Give it up if you do :lol:
Or maybe you are talking about if there is already a hole in the liner put there by something else and that the plant roots have gone through?

i had bamboo grow up under my liner in my first pond it wasnt a really thick liner, but we dont know how thick vicious5ids liner is and as he was having trouble getting his plants out it might be because the roots had gone through it

 

[j.w]

Stroppy, that would really be a bummer having to take out the liner and start all over again. I bet you had a headache that day

 

[stroppy]

Stroppy, that would really be a bummer having to take out the liner and start all over again. I bet you had a headache that day :lol:

it was ok till i tried to pull it out :lol: ... but it was good in a way because we dug it deeper so i ended up with a bigger pond :lol:

 

[j.w]

Turned out to be a good thing then eh? Glad for you....bigger is always better :regular_waving_emot

 

[addy1]

Yep it is jw! bigger bigger bigger lol

 

[budgenator]

Gosh I didn't think it was possible, wonder what kind of plant would do that? Maybe it was the thinner type of liner?

IDK but it kept saying "Feed Me, Seymore"

I did have some cattails that I had to use a pruning saw on to get out, they tottaly embedded some 4 and 6 inch boulders in the roots!