I always used to think that a smaller pond would take less maintenance and attention, however, that is not the case.  In fact, the smaller the pond the more attention it needs!

If you were a wise bunny, you would have put some net over the pond for the winter to protect fish if you have any and to keep dead leaves off.  If you did, now is the time to take it off.  If you didn’t, oh dear, the hard work starts now

Clear out any dead leaves or rubbish that’s got into the pond

A ’shrimping net’ is good to skim off any duckweed floating around.  If you don’t take it off now, it’s going to spread like wildfire when it warms up a bit and it suffocates the pond, so get rid of it now.

Note: if the water looks green and a bit murky, that’s ok for this time of year and will clear itself up.  So don’t panic