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I`ve just cleared out a load of oxygenating plants from my garden pond. Is it ok to put this on the compost heap?
Thanks Seedling

Hello Seedling,
We compost Rigid Hornwort? from our canal pond with no problem....also have used it as a mulch around shrubs and same between Raspberries or spread on open ground. It is rather interesting as if left in a heap it does not seem to warm up as a pile of grasscuttings would, very quickly, do. It seems to decompose in a different way..sort of dries out to nothing.
We get rather a large quantity with 75yd x 10yd x 7ft deep(in the middle)canal pond. We weed the middle section of the length but leave one end as is...as a place for the fish to do what fishes do in warm summer weather...

Bit of a game to drag the weed out...there is a brick wall like a canal lock to one side of the pond...so we set a ladder against this wall down into the pond...then stand on the ladder at water level...throw out a rake with rope attached..draw weed back to ladder side..then pitch fork the weed up onto the path side above...into the truck and away to mulch.

All the best,
Clive.

I only have a small garden pond, but I find I have to clear a lot of oxygenating weed at least once a week in the summer months. It goes straight into the compost dalek. Being wet it helps to keep the other materials moist.

Thanks guys. I`ll put it on then.
Seedling