If your pond has been growing cloudy and mouldy and full of algae and you’ve pondered (pardon the pun) what could be wrong, and if you are anything like me and have fish in your pond and you cannot see them anymore then look no further we have the answer.

In the warmer weathers of spring algae love to flourish in ponds and this is what causes the misty water. Obviously nature has its own solution to the problem which is that the pond plants will begin to grow, which are oxygenating plants, and these will eat up the nutrients reducing the volumes of algae in the pond. If you want to speed up nature’s process then you can throw a string bag of barley straw into the pond. This will breakdown much quicker and the nutrients will be used up by this extra barley straw. Remove the barley straw after a few months.