This is a quote from the above link to pondrestoration.com.
"Duckweed prefers eutrophic, motionless fresh water"
These are questions, because I have no experience with duckweed (although my daughters pond that I cleaned out this fall had some, but not too bad, so am interested in solutions)
If it prefers motionless water, I would assume a pond that has lots of access to wind it would all blow to one side? If a person could have more wind (like removing some select trees) would that help the duckweed situation? Big fan? (LOL, too much energy required). Water pump to circulate water?
Pond aeration creates small waves on the surface. Would aeration help push the duckweed to the banks and keep it from spreading across the pond? If so, if a person used a larger bubble diffuser (move less water for circulation purposes but the energy creates surface waves instead) to create more wave action on the surface would that help keep the duckweed problem to a shore problem?
Like I said, these are questions for the experts, not answers.
Last edited by snrub; 01/11/14 07:48 AM.
