Building a fish pond by yourself is not an easy task. This job doesn’t just require a lot of equipment, tools but also certain skills. However, if you really want to have a fish pond of your own in ...

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 ...

Duckweed — an emerald-green hydroponic plant — has covered almost all 3.86 acres of ponds at the wetlands this summer. The plant, which grows on the water surface without soil, makes irregular ...

Goopy & Murray (2003) confirmed that duckweeds can absorb nutrients from the waste and drained water forming biomass rich in protein, carbohydrates and pigments suitable for feeding domestic animals ...