Features of wintering of aquatic plants

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Bloom
It is important to remember that algae cause water bloom, spoiling the visual appeal of the pond. Shading the pond surface with plants will help combat this.

Shading a pond with plants
A good ratio of pond surface coverage with plants can be south korea mobile database to be 1/3, that is, one third of its surface should be covered with floating plants, coastal plants do not count, only floating ones.

Nutrition of aquatic plants
Garden soil without fertilizers is good for feeding aquatic plants. It is highly undesirable to use fresh manure and fertilizers, as this will lead to water bloom.

On the contrary, you can increase the nutritional value by adding old rotted manure or a full handful of bone meal.

It is important to remember that small garden or country ponds created with your own hands using containers built into the ground are subject to freezing in winter.

In order to protect plants from freezing in winter, they must be moved for wintering to specially prepared places, namely:

plants growing in baskets are moved to a warm room (basement or other frost-free room), into a container with water, providing water supply;
Free-floating plants are moved to a warm aquarium or other container suitable for this purpose.
Rules for planting aquatic plants
Let's look at the main points: