Ok the pond water quality workshop was a great success. Cary Martin of Aqua Control presented very easy to follow examples in the science of ponds. Decent weather as for being warm but the wind was crazy and made a lot of noise in the camera. We had a small group and everyone learned from [...]

Wow amazing weather the past few days and hopefully sticks around through the summer. Spring has hit and life is just popping up all over, even at the pond, below is a short video of some of the events going on at the pond. From the Koi surfacing and their first feeding to the frog [...]

Taking a look at blue pond-dye , What is it? What does it do? Over time your new pond will turn into a green looking water hole and that’s a bummer. I know because I’ve been there done that. One thing I will not do is just start trying things out until I have a [...]

Wow so far so good only one winter storm this season with significant snow fall that dropped close to 3 feet of snow. Now that we have the deck on the pond my concern was ice building up and maybe lifting the deck then being all twisted up in the spring. To prevent this from [...]

WhatPond meet’s the PondBoss Whether you own a pond or planning to build one be sure to read this post and watch the movie at the end of the post.  Learning once we start the pond building project, it will be around for many years. And when planning be sure to have long term goals [...]

Happy Holidays Wow what a GREAT year! I hope you had a GREAT year as well and that we all have learned a thing or two. The weather was, well in Erie, PA. We are hoping next year Summer will visit us for more than 3 days. Seemed Spring held on tight and Fall couldn’t [...]

Building a pond for water storage to water the garden, crops or even the house is great and don’t forget the countless recreation activities. When WhatPond was built its main purpose was for water storage, swimming and adding fish to one day go fishing for the big one. As you have seen the pictures during [...]

Thankful Wow it’s that time again already… Thanksgiving that is and I have a special video that may help jog some memories of being thankful. Wait till you see it, I think a little different from most folks. Anyways it’s been one heck of a year.  I started doing videos interviewing experts for more in [...]

Fall Pond Now that summer has gone fall is here and the threat of snow is right around the corner what do we do to get the farm pond ready for winter? Wait a minute, what summer, how was your summer? Ours lasted about 3 days in a row with 80 plus degrees, dodging rain [...]