Give your garden pond a Spring cleaning

Dick Warner shares his techniques for Spring cleaning your garden pond.

Cleaning out the small pond on my patio is a spring job and one that I don’t really enjoy. It involves taking out dead leaves and other detritus from the bottom of the pond by hand.

The reason it’s a spring job is that I leave it until the pond water has warmed up enough to prevent my hands going numb with cold after about five minutes.