Fertilizing Aquatic Plants
Keep Your Aquatic Plants Blooming and Looking Great All Summer! Do your aquatic plants need to be fertilized? Most likely no. But.... boy, if you fertilize them, you will be rewarded! Here's an example... Look at the photo above. These six little plants turned into this beautiful aquatic pot two months later -- May to July! (We do this a lot at Cool Ponds and at home too. Take a hole-less pot, put aquatic plants in it and "ta-da" you have a beautiful pot that only will need occasional water.) How about these water lilies in the photo below … This is a new pond, and the lilies were planted this spring with slow-release fertilizer . (By the way the lilies are all in fabric bags to keep them contained because they would eventually fill this pond). The fertilizer helps them grow, but mainly it's to encourage them to BLOOM! They have given us quite a show. So what type of fertilizer should be used and how often? I'm a less work, more enjoyment kind of girl, so I ...
