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Message: [QUOTE="adavisus, post: 94377, member: 3206"] When its mild and frost free next spring, drain the pond so the plant mass is much less weight, set aside fish and frogs that you want to keep in a paddling pool. When the foliage mass is well drained it will be much lighter, easier to heave out and dispose of. Consider pitching the plants which choke the pond too fast beyond the point where its obvious they are a nuisance and phase in better behaved plants... Cattails and waterlilies which are of a monstrous growing habit, while obviously they are cheap and easy to find (wouldn't you be glad, nay desperate to get rid of such a nuisance) are a liability, when you could look forward to varieties which have far more suitable growing habit and much less trouble to maintain It goes without saying, darling little pieces of the brute pond plants tend to be pushed out and its all too easy to end up being stuck with a monster from the lagoon. Instead of a perty nice plant. Regards, andy [URL]http://www.flickr.com/photos/21940871@N06/[/URL] [URL]http://swglist.wordpress.com/[/URL] [/QUOTE]