In addition to fish and ducks, duckweed can be fed to cattle ... By September, we could make a giant vat of "lentil soup" with the pond water here at Stillman Nature Center.

The carpet of aquatic plants currently covering the surface of Girard Park’s pond might not be pretty to look at, but it’s not dangerous to the pond or the public, ...

But in the thousands of duckweed-covered ponds across the state, the reality is more complicated. Due to organic matter carried into ponds by rain and melting snow, ponds actually emit greenhouse ...

Green-covered ponds may be still or stagnant to the eye, but there is no lack of activity. In fact, often the green covering is a collection of thousands of individual floating common duckweed plants.

It may look like blue-green algae, but it's not - it's actually duckweed, which is the smallest flowering plant out there. And it loves to grow on little ponds across the state. But University of ...

My pond gets full of duckweed very quickly in summer. It makes good compost, but I'm fed up with clearing it. How can I get rid of it for ever? Mrs S. Partridge, Dyffryn Ardudwy, Gwynedd The ...

Gardeners, however, are advised that overusing barley straw in the ponds can kill fish. The straw can deplete ... against higher or vascular plants like duckweed, watermilfoil, or pondweed.

I raised fish for sale and I lost nearly two million riel trying to do that and that’s when I decided to try duckweed instead,” he said. Soviet stated that at first he just planted duckweed as a test ...

When most people think of duckweed, they likely picture an unappealing green film growing across the surface of a stinky, stagnant slough. The protein-rich plant may soon be on your plate ...