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Robyn's Pond Blog for November 2022

Last Updated: 11/27/22

1. On 11/6/22, it was very warm as it was the day before. With 100% humidity, it felt like August, not November! Nonetheless, it was time to get ready for whatever winter we may have. At 12:44, the air temperature was 72 degrees F. The 1800 gallon pond was at 66 degrees F while the 153 gallon pond was at 63 degrees F. I spend nearly an hour to start trying to get up leaves in and around the pond. There were too many to count. The net was fully collapsed into the water, about a foot down into the water. There were two massive holes in the net which I sewed later. I use fishing line and a sewing needle to attach pieces of an old net to the new net. I gave myself plenting of fishing line so, it of course, got all tangled up in itself, thus vastly shortening that with which I had to work. I was in the water so I wasn't getting out to rethread the needle.

I changed the filter floss around the main pump which stays in all year. I removed the Biosteps filter and its pump and the auxiliary pump to the main waterfall and both of their electrical lines. There was an ant party in the outlet yet again so I put in fresh bait. I collected leaves in and around the 153 gallon pond as well. I collected maybe 30 of the 50 some yard doohickeys and put them on the back porch along with the drying filter parts. The news said it absolutely wasn't going to rain in the afternoon so it started to deluge on me while I was finishing up.

2. It is finally cold. At 1:37 pm on 11/13/22, the air temperature was 45 degrees F but the winds were bad and made it miserable to be outside. The 1800 gallon pond was at 56 degrees F, and the 153 gallon pond was at 57 degrees F. I collected leaves, squirted off the main filter materials, and put in additives. I removed the PondMaster filter from the 153 gallon pond for the winter and put in the air stone with Luft pump. I lowered the two pots of golden club lower in the water. I was supposed to squirt the bioballs and lava rock but I could not take it any longer outside.

3. On 11/20/22, I should have done the following: squirt off the main filter materials, squirt out the bioballs, put in additives, top off the ponds, cut down all the marginals, lower a few plant pots in the most shallow water, remove leaves from around the ponds, take off the net in the 153 gallon, pull the net back off the waterfall in the big pond, and put out the de-icers. You know what I did? I recorded the temperatures, cut down a few perennials outside the pond, and put in additives to the big pond. Why? The air temperature was 34 degrees F at 1:50 pm but it was the 20 to 30 mph winds that I could not tolerate. So, I failed at my pond duties this week. When I was younger and did not have moderate arthritis, I would have forced my way through those chores. The ice on the shallow areas of the pond would have made it difficult but I would have done it. I pulled the thermometer out of the ice in the 1800 gallon pond, and it read 40 degrees F which was the same temperature in the 153 gallon pond.

4. It was supposed to rain on 11/27/22 (it did), and I had some people over so I did pond chores on Friday, 11/25/22. At 1:38 pm, it was 58 degrees F with an irritating wind but still warm enough work. The 1800 gallon pond was at 47 degrees F while the 153 gallon was only at 44 degrees F. I removed the net from the 153 gallon pond. I only removed leaves from in the water and close by because, even if I had time to remove every leaf from within 10 feet, all it takes is a strong wind, and all the leaves within 100 feet are in the water. In the big pond, I squirted off the filter floss and the bioballs. There were 3 green frogs and 3 pickerel frogs in there. I put them in a bucket while cleaning and returned them when done. Since it's supposed to be mostly above freezing this week, I didn't put in the de-icers or pull the net off the main waterfall. I cut down all the marginals in the big pond and the iris in the 50 gallon tub pond. I lowered the main net to the ground (it was elevated on posts to allow for tall plants). We had a few hard frosts in the past few weeks so the marginals were frost wilted.


Continue to the December 2022 pond blog.



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