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Wondering about pond plants?  Well Water Hyacinths are great for your backyard pond.  Not only do they add plenty of beauty to it, they also give your fish needed shade and protection as well as nutrients.

During the summer months, Water Hyacinths are one of the best pond plants you can get for your pond.  You only need a few to get you going because they multiply so fast.

The picture below is a good example of what I’m talking about.  My wife bought five Water Hyacinth plants in about mid May(2010) and at the time of this writing, (about mid July 2010), you can see how they are filling up our pond.  Once they start multiplying, they grow like crazy.

Water Hyacinths are great to have in your pond during the hot summer months.

In a few more days we won’t be able to keep up with them and we’ll have to start getting rid of some.  They get pretty darn big and the fish love munching on the roots of them.  They really are a great plant for your backyard pond.

We are having a great summer this year and everything around the pond is growing great.  The fish are looking good, seem very healthy and growing.  The young Comets are changing from black to orange.

As stated in an earlier post, we tried some turtles again this year.  We got five very small ones and two pretty good size ones.  The two bigger ones were gone the next day, and three of the five small ones didn’t make it.  The two we have left have survived a few weeks now and seem to be doing well.  Hopefully they’ll stick around when they get bigger.

Well that’s about it for now, just wanted to let you know about the Water Hyacinths.  Talk to ya later, Bob

Well from my previous post, I told you how my wife got a new turtle for our pond, well… it didn’t stick around very long.  It stayed a couple days and moved on.  I think maybe it went looking for some companionship.

Someone told us that if you get a male and female together that they would more than likely stick around.  I don’t know, but they are kinda neat to have around.

All of our fish are doing really well and everything around the pond is growing like crazy.  We have been having a cool, wet spring here in Ohio which makes it good for flowers and plants.

My wife bought three Water Hyacinths for the pond.  It cost her 10 bucks, but they’ll grow like crazy and I’ll probably be throwing them out by August.  They are great for your pond and give your fish some protection, so keep that in mind.

I hope I can get some more pictures of your pond.  I would like to put them up on my main site.  There are a lot of people interested in what other people do with their ponds and gives them some ideas.  So send them in to me if you get a chance.  Talk to ya later, Bob

Well we got a turtle for our backyard pond a few days ago.  As you can see in the picture below that it’s pretty good size.  We had one a few years ago and had it for two or three years before it left.  My wife ended up finding it in our front yard under a bush, it didn’t make it.

This is a picture of our turtle in our backyard pond.

Hopefully this new one will hang around for awhile.  It doesn’t seem to be scared or anything.  My wife threw a small piece of driftwood in the pond and the turtle got up on it almost immediately.

They are kind of neat to have.  It doesn’t bother the fish at all and it seems to like the fish food my wife puts in the pond.

This is about the size of our first turtle was before he or she ran away.

They also can stay under water for quite a long time before they come up for air.

This is also another example of some of the different things you can have in and around your pond.