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    A buddy of mine has a pond that has silted in and he's getting ready to dig out (his pond is almost dry) and was asking me if I knew of any way to keep a pond from silting in so I though I would ask yall any ideas I'm interested thanks
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    Nope. You could plant bermuda in the watershed to slow the runoff and there by reducing the silt load.
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    Yep....lots of grass seed and fertilizer will help
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    go easy on the fertilizer if he's going to stock the pond any time soon.
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    The fertilizer will not hurt the reworked pond, depending on what the concentrations are of N.P, and K . Fertilizer is needed to start the food chain and the biological processes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cricket george View Post
    The fertilizer will not hurt the reworked pond, depending on what the concentrations are of N.P, and K . Fertilizer is needed to start the food chain and the biological processes.
    Go organic and no problem.
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