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    Killing Floating Pond Weeds: A Step Towards A Healthy Pond

    Improving the health of your pond or lake can be a multi-step process. If your goal is killing floating pond weeds you might have to look a little deeper into your pond’s overall health. Simply removing weeds like duckweed, watermeal, water hyacinth or water lettuce is just one part of the process.

    First make sure that you know what you are dealing with. The easiest way to identify that you indeed have a floating pond weed issue is knowing for sure that there is no root system attached to the ground of your pond. This might make you think that killing floating pond weeds will be easy, but their very strength and survival is largely based on their mobility. In the case of duckweed, this floating weed can be easily transferred from one place to another on the bodies of migratory birds.

    Early detection and treatment help prevent the overgrowth of duckweed and other floating weeds on the pond. Dibrox is an excellent broad spectrum herbicide that is sprayed directly over the plants, making it ideal for spot treating.

    Controlling floating pond weeds is a great step towards improving a pond’s health. However, like most invasive plant species, floating pond weeds thrive in an environment that has an imbalance of nutrients in the water such as an excess of phosphorus and nitrogen, so the next step is just as important.

    Once you’ve got the floating plants in your water under control, it’s time to get the proper nutrient balance back as well. The goal is to make it so your pond or lake isn’t quite so easy to re-infest the next time a duckweed dabbled bird lands in it. SparKlear nutrient reducer dissolves excess nutrients in the water and PhosControl bonds with free phosphorus. Removing these nutrients will ensure clear water.

    For a complete pond overhaul our recommended Pond Products Package will not only kill your floating pond weeds, but will also help control other such invasive plant species as milfoil and Hydrilla. The package includes Dibrox herbicide to kill weeds, Mizzen algaecide for algae control, SparKlear® nutrient reducer, and Deep Blue dye to filter sunlight. Adding PhosControl in spring and fall or after weed/algae treatments will get your pond’s phosphorus levels back in balance.

    Using these products as instructed on the labels is sure to get your pond back to its beautiful self. Controlling floating weeds in a pond is a very important part of keeping the pond healthy.