Well I know I kinda acted before I thought & reseasrched this much but in the fall around Oct I pushed 2 large round bales into the pond just by rolling them across a field with the front end of a tractor. There is quite alot of FA growth on them now.But there is a ton of it on the rest of the pond also. The water has been getting much clearer as the winter has progressed but that probably has nothing to do with the bales.I can see quite well thru the water down to depths of 8ft.Those bales were not decomposed at all that I put it. The one real problem I did have is that they floated & the wind kept moveing them all over the place. I took long metal rods & drove them into the sides of the bales tied wire to the ends of them & staked the wires down to the banks to keep them in the places I wanted them. I took well over a month but they did sink to the bottom then. I can see the tops of them quite clearly now probably 4-6ft. under water. Hope this doesnt turnout to cause more harm than good but I guess its too late to do anything about it now.When I put them in the water was very black & I could only see to depths of 2ft. There was no FA in sight anywhere but its all over the pond now.I do beleive those bales were Timothy for the most part.

Dan B