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By DR. DIANE RELF
Extension Consumer Horticulturist
Many gardeners like to clean their ponds in the fall to help ensure a health water environment through the winter. Be careful, however, if you clean too throughly, you disturb the fish and plants during the time they are getting used in dropping temperatures and low levels of sunlight.
Move Tropical Plants
Into a House
A light cleaning is preparation for winter is all that is needed. Remove all dying foliage on water plants after the second or third frost. Tender or tropical plants will have to be removed and wintered over in a greenhouse. Some tropical plants, such as dwarf papyrus, can be brought in as house plants as long as the containers are kept in water. Hardy plants in containers should remain in the pond.
The debris collected in the bottom of the pond over the summer should be raked out. Do this with a plastic rake to keep from damaging the liner if it is plastic. If you regularly removed the dead and dying foliage and flower buds from the aquatic plants (water lilies especially need grooming) during the growing season, you are already ahead of the fall cleanup. Raking the bottom now
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