Caring for our small water garden
Never before have I been responsible for caring for a outdoor water garden. I mean, really, in Military housing, such a thing would be considered to be an extreme luxury so when we moved into our new home and I found myself the owner of a lovely, 1500 gallon pond, complete with a water fall, I found myself a little overwhelmed. What do I do with such a thing? At one point we thought about raising trout in the pond, but we felt already so overwhelmed by the garden and the amount of work we now had that we threw our hands up and said "get to it later". Turns out immediately after break up, we discovered we had some work that was very much required. We knew from the years we have been keeping indoor fish that agitating the water is always good. It's always good to ensure your water isn't stagnate, so we plugged in our lovely waterfall and found our pond stunk. Badly stunk. It stunk enough that we all even hesitated to walk near it. So one weekend, mid May, when