Pond's first winter - tasks?

[Tobyh]

I was wondering if I could ask for some ideas here.

It's my wildlife ponds first winter shortly and I'm not sure if there is anything I should be doing to "prepare" it. I'm half leaning towards just leaving it to it's onw devices to see what happens. I'm not removing all (just some) of the leaves that are getting into it and it still has a resonable amount of blanket weed in there. Will the weed naturally die off? There's LOADS living in it so am reluctant to remove it myself.

Any advice from greatly appreciated.

TobyH

[joe_b]

Hi Toby

I'm not sure there's anything else you need to do. That's the beauty of wildlife ponds - low maintenance!

I'm taking an easy attitude to leaves too and just scooping off a few from the surface as and when. The blog from the Pond Conservation people suggests leaving everything to nature, which I guess includes the blanket weed. (For some reason I can't link to it here, but it's called 'the garden pond blog' so google it if you're interested!)

Cheers
Joe