Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations #$%$#&% Cattails

Damn straight. Cattails and willows and poplars in my pond are under death sentence, regularly enforced. I pull 'em up when I see 'em or cut 'em off (repeatedly, with extreme prejudice) if I can't get' em pulled out. This has managed to keep them from getting a beachhead to expand from.

There's a small (1/5 acre?) pond a quarter mile from me, went in a year after mine. They spend a lot of effort landscaping around it (it is in their back yard, I honestly thought it was going to be a swimming pool when they started excavating) and putting up elaborate seasonal outdoor displays, but they have never pulled a cattail or a willow since day one. The shoreline is now 50% cattails and 20% willows, and spreading.