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What do you spray around your pond?
Posted on 8/5/25 at 9:07 am
Posted on 8/5/25 at 9:07 am
The house I purchased has a half acre pond that previous owners let get away. Looks to have Roseau cane, privet/bushes, and just tall grass. My first step is to knock it all down with a brush blade and saw, likely a fall project once it cools down. But what can I do or spray to help maintain, that doesn’t jeopardize the fish or any erosion
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Posted on 8/5/25 at 9:23 am to Tiger328
It’ll take a lil time but I assume just keeping it trimmed regularly will not need any chemicals being sprayed.
Getting it back into shape will need at minimum a tractor and a bush hog and just back the bush hog over the debris around pond edge.
For a small fee I can come over with a mini excavator and a bush hog attached to it and whip it into shape! haha
Sorry didn’t answer your question about chemicals. I just cut stuff.
Getting it back into shape will need at minimum a tractor and a bush hog and just back the bush hog over the debris around pond edge.
For a small fee I can come over with a mini excavator and a bush hog attached to it and whip it into shape! haha
Sorry didn’t answer your question about chemicals. I just cut stuff.
Posted on 8/5/25 at 10:37 am to Tiger328
Glyphosate is safe for pond edge. I spray mine twice a year and it’s fine
Posted on 8/5/25 at 12:33 pm to Jack Daniel
Ditto on glyphosate and have been doing it for over 30 yrs. Nothing stays bare long enough to erode but I don’t have a steep bank. Never had a fish kill and my pond is not deep.,
Posted on 8/5/25 at 12:43 pm to Royalfishing
Is anyone concerned with eating fish exposed to glyphosate?
I’ve eaten plenty of sac-a-lait that were exposed to cane field run-off, but now-a-days I try not to spray anything around my pond. I just have to keep it trimmed with the DR brush mower.
I’ve eaten plenty of sac-a-lait that were exposed to cane field run-off, but now-a-days I try not to spray anything around my pond. I just have to keep it trimmed with the DR brush mower.
Posted on 8/5/25 at 1:31 pm to Theduckhunter
A 1/2 acre pond that averages 3 feet deep has about half a million gallons of water in it. It would take a lot of glyphosate to expose a fish to much of anything.
Posted on 8/5/25 at 1:38 pm to deltafarmer
Fair point… I mainly asked the question to put my fears at ease, and that helps put it in perspective.
FWIW I keep a bottle of shoreline defense (active ingredient is glyphosate) on standby in case anything particularly invasive shows up.
FWIW I keep a bottle of shoreline defense (active ingredient is glyphosate) on standby in case anything particularly invasive shows up.
Posted on 8/5/25 at 1:47 pm to Theduckhunter
I’m not dumping glyphosate directly into the pond. I’m just spraying the roughly 18” of grass along the water edge that’s too muddy to cut with mower. Sure a little over spray sprinkles in the water but not a lot.
I eat fish from my pond all the time with no affects other than stunted growth of pecker
I eat fish from my pond all the time with no affects other than stunted growth of pecker
Posted on 8/5/25 at 1:54 pm to Tiger328
Nothing. My pond is chlorinated.
Posted on 8/5/25 at 2:10 pm to Jack Daniel
Diluting glyphosate 2 oz per gallon of water
Using garden sprayer not an agricultural sprayer
Only a small bit hits water and just as over spray
The risk of cutting close to pond and having mower fall into pond or having heat stroke or a heart attack weedeating a 1.25 acre shoreline not to mention the exhaust that a weedeater puts out far outweighs the risk of eating the occasional fish with maybe trace elements of glyphosate.
Safer than the fish in most public lakes!
Using garden sprayer not an agricultural sprayer
Only a small bit hits water and just as over spray
The risk of cutting close to pond and having mower fall into pond or having heat stroke or a heart attack weedeating a 1.25 acre shoreline not to mention the exhaust that a weedeater puts out far outweighs the risk of eating the occasional fish with maybe trace elements of glyphosate.
Safer than the fish in most public lakes!
Posted on 8/6/25 at 10:42 am to WillFerrellisking
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small fee I can come over with a mini excavator and a bush hog attached to it and whip it into shape! haha Sorry didn’t answer your question about chemicals. I just cut stuff.
You beat me to it. I have a 42” bushmaster on my excavator. They make quick work brush and briars around a pond.
This post was edited on 8/6/25 at 11:31 am
Posted on 8/6/25 at 11:22 am to pdubya76
Galvanized? Pretty sure that’s name brand of ours. Or maybe ours is Brush Master.
Those things can surely clear out a shooting lane and road sides!
Those things can surely clear out a shooting lane and road sides!
Posted on 8/6/25 at 11:31 am to WillFerrellisking
Yes it’s galvanized. I’ve stayed busy with it this summer clearing around ponds and and creeks . Here’s me working on a pond a couple weeks ago. 
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Posted on 8/6/25 at 12:01 pm to pdubya76
Yep, same one we have, love that thing!
Posted on 8/6/25 at 12:58 pm to WillFerrellisking
I use a 14' boom sprayer and use grazon next or weedmaster (last few years) and hit it with my annual pasture spraying. I use the aquashade dye or whatever for controlling the deeper weeds and am happy with the results.
Posted on 8/6/25 at 4:05 pm to Royalfishing
And Iam licensed for 10 grass carp in my 1.25 acre pond but only put in 5. My only big problem was chara and I now spray in 1 gallon of Cutrine Plus jn 10 gallons of water in the water every spring and that took care of the chara and algae issues. So I don’t need to spray anything but bank vegetation.
Posted on 8/6/25 at 5:08 pm to Theduckhunter
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Is anyone concerned with eating fish exposed to glyphosate?
I won't argue with you on not wanting to purposely ingest it, but if you are buying food from a grocery store it has glyphosate in it. It's in nearly our entire food supply.
I also won't argue that it is harmless. Our entire society is sick.
Posted on 8/6/25 at 7:04 pm to DaFreakinFarmer
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I won't argue with you on not wanting to purposely ingest it, but if you are buying food from a grocery store it has glyphosate in it. It's in nearly our entire food supply.
Yeah, I guess my thought process was always, “the less chemicals I put, the better” But I never put much thought into it beyond that. And despite Jack Daniel saying he doesn’t “dump it in there,” every bit of it will get washed in there on the next rain. But like deltafarmer said, it’s not enough volume to even be concerned with compared to pond volume.
I asked the question so somebody could talk some sense into me, and deltafarmer did just that. I never hesitated eating fish out of a drainage canal with foaming run off from the cane field, so I don’t know what I was even worried about to begin with.
Posted on 8/6/25 at 7:06 pm to Tiger328
Diaquat aquatic herbicide
Posted on 8/7/25 at 9:49 am to Royalfishing
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2 oz per gallon of water
I see where all the weed resistance to glyphosate came from.
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