Pond, and yes that was a hard winter...

[wispfox]

I'm fairly sure that nothing survived this past winter in my pond. I was afraid of that, considering just how much snow we got and how cold it got. I would not be surprised if it had in fact frozen all the way to the bottom. (I wonder if my hardy plants like lilies and pickerel weed can survive a complete freeze? I suppose we'll see what grows and maybe figure out if it did actually freeze through to the bottom)

However, even if it didn't _quite_ freeze through, if something had started rotting while the pond was covered in ice and snow (yeah, I have a pond heater to try to keep a hole open, but once we had multiple feet of snow, didn't really expect it to be able to do so), the gasses from that would kill everything else off.

The pond _smells_ like rot, so I'll be shocked if anything survived. I pulled out what I could reach from the bottom of where the ice had melted, and will keep doing so - hoping for something alive to wiggle or swim away from me - in order to reduce the amount of continued rot.

Sadness.

I'll probably get some cheap rosy red minnows again, just so I have something in there to eat the mosquitoes, but I'm not putting anything else (except extra guppies) in there after two years in a row of near total winter kill (two tadpoles survived last winter. Somehow. We'll see for this year).

I wish the people who put that pond in had made it deeper! Of course, while I'm wishing, I also wish they had made levels within the pond so I could have bog plants as well as pond plants in there.

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[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Mrowf. I wonder how much it would be really to dig the whole thing down. :-/