How to Plant Pond Plants

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Hope you found this helpful. As you can see planting plants in the pond is not much different than planting something in you garden. Just be sure to use potting soil made for ponds as it is heavier and will not float away. You can pick some up below, along with the fertilizer.
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@blindassassin9777 3 года назад

Just use gravel and if anything you can add root tabs when and if your plant looks like it need a boost if you use dirt never put the dirt right in the water in less you cap it with rocks /gravel ...The water already had tons of nutrients why the water green and you have green algae ..you need some flowing plants that will help take some of the nutrients out

@clarkriccobuono3903 3 года назад

Very helpful, thank you

@ellbodavis 2 года назад

Soil is not needed. Aquatic plants just need anchored, and pea gravel is perfect. Over time, the fish and plant matter will create a natural "compost" that the plant will root into. Add fertilizer tablets to help get them established.

@LynsHomeGardenDesign 4 года назад

Great idea to plant straight into the pond ... I must try it in my pond. Nice waterfall!

@Lektor228 4 года назад

This was super helpful! Thank you!

@KateInTheCity 4 года назад

Nice video. Are you in NY? Did this grass survive?

@BackyardWaterGarden 4 года назад

I am in upstate N.Y. and yes the grass did survive. It has tripled in size since last year.

@MrJoshcc600 10 месяцев назад

I've used just plain florida ground sand after cleaning it with fine success. But I've found even better plain gravel no pot plants do far better right in the waterfall where the nutrients fly by

@BackyardWaterGarden 10 месяцев назад

Great tip!

@Fkzionism 4 года назад

Great info,you didn’t show your entire pond not sure why 🤷🏽‍♂️, also your spillway waterfall could look much fuller and sound much better by setting a few cobbles to redirect water flow. Overall great stuff! Keep them coming. Sorry for the criticism I’m no professional lol

@barriewalker9160 4 года назад

This is 100% the wrong info. You never put fertiliser in a pond. You shouldn't really put soil in your pond and that may contain fertiliser. Use sand if you have too.

@mikkosrussos 4 года назад

Was thinking about using sand instead of soil for direct planting- so the roots are taking nutrients from the water rather than the soil/ compost

@BackyardWaterGarden 4 года назад

Sounds like a great idea. Not sure how to keep the sand together. Curious how that will work. Let me know.

@stephendekoning802 4 года назад

Tiny guage mesh window screen or netting in bigger baskets etc.

@ivan.markovic 3 года назад

@@BackyardWaterGarden I have planned plants in gravel without any soil directly in pond (without basket). Everything is ok, it is second year and plants grow again.

@MrJoshcc600 10 месяцев назад

I've done sand and no soil just gravel. The sand in fabric pots live fine but get root bound and are 1/2 the size of free unpotted plants in gravel to stabilize them

@retrobuzz1044 3 года назад

You potted the Canna lilies in a pot that'll easily allow soil to leach out and dirty the pond?

@BackyardWaterGarden 3 года назад

The soil used was specifically for planting pond plants in water. After the initial submersion no more dirt came out.

@psypherveritas895 2 года назад

@@BackyardWaterGarden I used clay pots and just put about 2" of gravel on the top to keep soil from leaching out and muddying the water. Also put some dead leaves in the soil for food as an experiment.

@recall2880 3 года назад

My pond is deep so how do I plant a Lilly so it doesn’t end up with its leaves half way in the pond

@lunacycalico4017 3 года назад

Stack some stones or bricks to raise the pot

@tube375crash 2 года назад

What kind of fish are those you have? Also, do they stay small?

@BackyardWaterGarden 2 года назад

I have a mixture of comet and shebunkin goldfish. They will grow to about 6 inches. I also have koi that will never stop growing their whole lifespan. Although their growth will slow as they age, they never stop growing completely. The largest are 4 years old and about 12 inches long.

@2010afakasi 3 года назад

Lol good vid, had a brainfart in the beginning hu? How many pots did you smoke before the vid? Lol jk

@jrdalbec 4 года назад

Ok, this may sound dumb... but was that gold? Stranger things have happened.

@starletta8293 3 года назад

What kind of plants were those?

@BackyardWaterGarden 3 года назад

The grass like plant was blue rush.

@ronniepower9876 4 года назад

My pond fishes are eating water lilly leaves . what to do ?

@CroatiaSurvival 3 года назад

Feed them more

@MrJoshcc600 10 месяцев назад

My pond goldfish eat everything. They literally don't have a stomachs. Even in 3k gal of water they eat all my plants. Hornwort to duckweed to you name it. I've tried 3x day feeding but doesnt matter google search says they start pooping undigested food with too much but that doesn't stop them. I think it's learned behavior, my friends goldfish get fed 1x every 3 days and won't eat plants and are terrified of people. I swim with my fish and they nibble on me. So hey it's a totally different thing

@beckerg04 4 года назад

Introducing fertilizer for your plants would also be fertilizing the algae correct? Shouldn't the fish waste be the fertilizer naturally

@barriewalker9160 4 года назад

You are correct. This is a BS video. The last thing you want is fertiliser in your pond. I don't even like putting soil in my pond. This must be a joke right?

@lovinrhinos27 4 года назад

@@barriewalker9160 Aquatic soil is much different than the soil you would have from your yard. It's meant to be heavy and give the extra nutrients to plants without clouding or dirtying up your pond.

@aidengutierrez172 3 года назад

@@lovinrhinos27 yes nut he kept the regular potting soil.

@aidengutierrez172 3 года назад

still good vid

@Losbitiboys4441 3 года назад

I was told that when planting plants in my pond to remove all the dirt cause the fertilizer that has plus the dirt will get the water dirty

@BackyardWaterGarden 3 года назад

You don't want to remove all the dirt. When you place your plants in your pond the water will get murky. This will go away once everything settles.

@Losbitiboys4441 3 года назад

@@BackyardWaterGarden thanks alot

@echoesvayne9790 Год назад

I mean.... I really don't see why you need to leave soil in... I'm only on my second year and am only using. 40 gallon patio pond but I have been growing aquarium plants in straight inert gravel for 5 years and I feel like with all the leaf debris and bird poop that gets into an outside pond soil isn't needed really for pond plants.

@ncbniks547 4 года назад

What is this grass called?

@szabomate1179 4 года назад

I belive it's horsetail (equisetum hyemale)

@stephendekoning802 4 года назад

All carp n minnow eat string etc easily eaten algae.. them extremely fed well fish!

@MrJoshcc600 10 месяцев назад

Mine love string algae too, I can pull it off the waterfall where they can't reach and toss it in the pond in balls and they go to town on it

@soitizswifty 3 года назад

why would you out soil in a pond

@donnabyrum8248 3 года назад

What kind of pond planting soil do you use

@BackyardWaterGarden 3 года назад

It was pond potting media. As long as you cover it with pea gravel the potting media will stay in place.

@Losbitiboys4441 3 года назад

Buffalo ny here

@jking7817 3 года назад

I thought he was Kate Upton’s husband

@ricksnow948 2 года назад

All the other videos I watched said u shouldn't put potting soil in pond cuz it's full of fertilizer which feeds the algae

@BackyardWaterGarden 2 года назад

The potting soil in the video is especially made to go in ponds. It stays together better when submerged and it does not contain the fertilizers that could be harmful to fish and other pond life.

@jwr_714 4 месяца назад

Why would you bother rinsing the stones and then putting a bunch of soil in the bucket ? Silly and a waste of time

@waldroc942 3 года назад

Your backyard should be described as a back garden. Builders have yards, full of bags of cement and bricks. Truckers have yards full of trucks. Flowers, ponds and lawns live in gardens... not yards. Your back garden is a garden... not a yard. Why do you people talk about yards instead of gardens? FIFK?