Ohio State Buckeye Blog

Fall is my favorite time of the year…football season (go buckeyes), change of season, the cooler weather, etc, but I hate what it does to my pond.  It seems like I spend most of my time raking crud from the surface of my pond.  Everytime I turn around there are more leaves floating on the surface and if I dont get them off they will sink and rot and really make a mess.  I think next spring I am going to invest in a good pond skimmer to help catch all this floating stuff.  I think it is too late to bother this year but it should make a good early spring project as I am doing all of the normal pre-spring rituals.  You know, what I keep seeing every where are theses nets that cover your pond.  That may be something I should look into right now as they dont seem to be too expensive and appear to be pretty straight forward to put on.  I guess you still have to remove the leaves from the net itself, but that would be better that raking them from the water.