Cat tails in new pond

wilson ind

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Have one year old pond. Very deep in 60% . No problebem there. However shallow part on one end is getting many cattails. How can I control this.?
Thought of roundup as should not bother fish. Sure would not want fish to get cancer LOL. What can I use?
 
Glyphosate Does work I don't think I would eat the fish, but it does not kill them. If you want to get them out manually pull from the roots when they are young and not very established. (lots of physical training.) Jim
 
Thinking same then treat the remainder. Thanks for your thoughts. I have small backhoe on crawler loader.
 
Several years ago I had water lillies in my tank, almost covered it. I talked to the guy I got my fish from he said round up would work, would not hurt cows or fish. The only thing he cautioned me about was do not treat the entire area at once, oxygen is need for decomposition of the vegetation, if you do a large area you could hurt your fish due to the reduction of oxygen in the water. He recommended doing no more than 20% of the infestation at a time.
 
If it is a small patch leave it alone.
Cattails are beneficial to your pond.

If they are over taking your pond edge to the point you can not get to the pond digging them out and at the same time making the shore deeper is best.

The easiest way is to spray them with glyphosate.
Shoreline Defense the recommended chemical to use to kill cattails is just 53% glyphosate.

Now if your pond looks like this you got real problems.



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There is more than one variety of Cat Tail. Our sloughs around here have been invaded with the wrong kind they tell me. They grow so thick the ducks can't even get good use out of the area they grow in. Then DNR tries to spray them to reduce the population but not eleminate it completely.

I used to hunt a lot of Cat Tail sloughs after freeze up but that is impossible with this invasive species taking over.
 
I wish I had MORE cattails in my ponds. They help clean the water and cannot grow in deep water. I never regarded them as a problem, just am asset. Sounds like you need to move in a couple of muskrats. They will eat them up, but might make a few holes in any dam you might have. I cannot imagine dumping glyphosate in any water I want to be near. Bad enough on farmland.
 
My pond was getting overrun with them, I wasn't really sure what to do then one summer a Muskrat moved in and cleaned them all up.

I know that doesn't help a whole lot but if they're around they do a really good job.

I have a few starting in one corner which is fine, I try to keep the edges mowed now which seems to help.

K
 
(quoted from post at 15:53:17 06/10/19) Have one year old pond. Very deep in 60% . No problebem there. However shallow part on one end is getting many cattails. How can I control this.?
Thought of roundup as should not bother fish. Sure would not want fish to get cancer LOL. What can I use?

It is illegal to spray Roundup in any body of water, Roundup does not have an aquatic label because the surfactants in it irritate and or kill fish. Rodeo is the aquatic version, both are glyphosate but the carriers are different. Huge fines and cleanup costs if your caught using the wrong formulation.
 
As mentioned, Rodeo is the version of Roundup for use in or near water. The soaps in Roundup are bad to spray directly I. The water for the critters in the water.

There are other generic names of glyphosate designed for use around water, saw one this week in Fleet Farm can?t remember the name.

But don?t use the regular formulations on the cattails, look for the aquatic versions.

Paul
 
Proven?? By who? California says Roundup is "known" to that state to cause cancer, but they say the same about nearly every other product sold there, chemical and non-chemical alike. The lawyers and juries in those recent "injury" lawsuits didn't prove anything, except that in those types of cases, emotions rule!

The only thing proven about Roundup is that it works! Yes, some weeds are becoming resistant, but for the most part, Roundup still gets the job done!

Proof that Roundup causes cancer is like the "ireffutable evidence" of collusion California's Rep. Adam "Shifty" Schiff claims to have. I keep hearing about it, but I'm still waiting to see it!
 
Round-up or Rodeo will work. If you don't want the spray in the water, soak a rag tied to a pole in the mix and drag it over the green parts!

Polaris is another option. I use it to keep laterals and canals free of aquatic vegetation.

Another issue.....leaving the cattails will have some government eco loco come and declare your pond a wetland area and then you are screwed.

Red
 
Bill old friend,
You have too much time on your hands to worry about cat tails. Leave sleeping cats alone. They are doing you a favor by removing fertilizer from your pond. A friend messed up the eco system in his pond by bringing in a crane and having his removed. Now he pond is green and he has an algie growing that has really messed up his fishing.

If your water is clear, do nothing. Let mother nature do her thing. Friend mows around his pond. Grass clipping is high in nitrogen. So when it rains, fertilizer washes into his pond.
George
 
Any farmer that would spray Roundup or glyphosate directly into a stream or body of water of any kind must be totally tone deaf to public opinion considering what has been in the news the last couple years.This is the type thing that
is making the reputation of farmers drop like a rock with the general public and saying its approved for use by the Hacks in the Gov't won't impress anyone.Do you
really want to be the 'Star' in that video?
 
Leave them alone they are good for the Eco systm
keep them trimmed back and clip them off below water level
good place for young fish to hide
 
Are you misinterpreting that graph or reading too much into it? Another person looking at that graph could conclude that organic food sales follows the rise of autism. Organic food sales could be a response to, rather than a cause, of the rise of autism?
 
(quoted from post at 15:53:17 06/10/19) Have one year old pond. Very deep in 60% . No problebem there. However shallow part on one end is getting many cattails. How can I control this.?
Thought of roundup as should not bother fish. Sure would not want fish to get cancer LOL. What can I use?


Leave them. They are edible, save them for when the zombie apocalypse starts... nobody else will think of eating them.
 

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