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I raked a few of our smaller ponds about a month ago and for and for the first time in years you could see the bottom...kind of white sandy looking. I went out tonight and took these pics.

This stuff just exploded...any ideas?





also, I have been calling this Alligatorweed for years, but now I think it is water primrose...



Time to mow the floating island, Bermuda grass loves this water!

The floating stuff is duckweed, the submereged vegetation looks like Sago pondweed, but its hard to tell for sure from the pic.

Thanks,

I should have been more specific, The underwater grass stuff is what i was trying to figure out. Unfortunately, I know duckweed all to well.

Hal, I am in the same boat as you with the duckweed. I have a pond that is 90% covered with the God awful stuff!

Try pulling some of the submerged vegetation out of the water and photography it. Then one of us can try to give you an more accurate ID on the stuff...

Yeah it looks like Sago pondweed to me too.

I get the water primrose also. A light spray of Round Up does a quick job on it if you're looking to kill it. Then you can easily rake it out without breaking it into a hundred pieces (which can each grow!!)

Unfortunalety I get the alligator weed too. An easy way to tell them apart is that the alligator weed makes white flowers and the water primrose makes yellow flowers.

Thanks Bream,

I have seen yellow flowers so it must be Primrose. We have always used Reward and that kills it quick. I don't know how I started calling it Alligatorweed.

Hal Reward is not a good choice for primrose, it only kills the foliage, glyphosate or 2,4-D liquid is a godo combo to rid of, as is habitat.

Thanks Greg,

I use Reward because we usually have it around the shop. If I used Habitat I would be disowned. Habitat has 120 day wait for irrigation...don't think the Zoysia fairways or Bermuda greens would take kindly to that. City might get mad as the Harpeth river is 100 yds away.