A beautifully tended pond is a joy at any time of year. However, regular care is needed to achieve this. The water quality is important in ensuring that animals and plants feel at ease in the biotope. Various factors such as sunlight, rainfall and leaves play a role too. Although every biotope has its own regenerative processes, once things get out of balance, the water will soon cloud over.
The new well-stocked GARDENA Pond Pharmacy range offers amateur gardeners everything they need for a healthy pond. The Vital products help prevent problems occurring in the first place; the Active products combat existing problems and eliminate them.

Decisive to water quality are pH value, levels of nitrates and nitrites, and carbonate hardness. If these parameters are right, self-cleaning mechanisms and ecological cycles will occur by themselves. That's reason enough to take a close look at your pond, especially as spring takes root. The practical GARDENA Pond Water Test provides concrete details about the condition of the water quickly and easily. To prevent problems occurring in the first place, the patented GARDENA Pond-Fit ensures ideal living conditions for fauna and flora in a flash by regulating and stabilising the pH value, raising carbonate hardness and activating the biotope's biological powers of self-cleaning.

If the pond is suffering from acute oxygen deficiency, GARDENA Oxygen plus can regulate oxygen content, promoting the healthy breakdown of waste products while preventing toxic waste gases from forming. A problem affecting many ponds is acute algae growth, caused by excessive phosphate content. All organic matter, among them leaves, pollen and dead water plants, contain phosphates released when microorganisms break down. The best times to use GARDENA Phosphate minus are before and after winter. It prevents algae and silt from forming in the first place.