Your Healthy Garden Pond

by Steve Halls

Book Overview

A complete guide to one of the hottest gardening trends. This guide shows water gardeners how to build a pond, add fish and aquatic plants, and keep it all healthy. The book offers: * Beautiful photographic examples of water gardens* Easy-to-follow illustrated instructions for setting up a pond* Tips on selecting fish and plants, plus pictures of common species* Advice on keeping the pond clean and attractive

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764562363
• ISBN13: 9780764562365
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Howell Books
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Overview of Pond Care

This gem of a book contains all the information a new pond owner needs to maintain a healthy, happy water feature. It's very readable, well-organized, and succinct.

A New Zealnd Pond

I used Interpet Products available from my local garden centre and I decided to check out some of the books advertised with their products and so ordered the "Your Healthy Garden Pond". I have read this book and found it a very useful reference,easy to read and with good illustrations. I would recommend it to anyone with a small garden pond.

Must Read for a Healthy Pond

This is a very good book for those who already have a pond. It does not get into the design and construction of ponds, but concentrates on maintaining the pond you have. This is exactly what I was looking for. I did not need to design or construct a pond; however, I did need the knowledge to maintain an existing pond, and this book fit the bill perfectly. It covers: * Water quality - the nitrogen cycle and what tests you need to perform * Filtration - types of filters, filter media, cleaning filters * Algae and plants - types of plants and how to grow them, how to contain algae * Fish - the different types of fish suitable for a pond and how to diagnose problems * Pond cleaning - when and how to clean the pond * Seasonal maintenance. - fall and winter preparations Also this book is illustrated with many full color pictures so you can see clearly what the author is talking about.

Super explanations

Borrowed this book from the library but have to buy it. It's a good reference and does great explanations. Real helpful for a novice like me.