Every July and every fall, I do maintenance on my 1/8 acre pond. The maintenance includes cutting all the cattails with The Yard Blade®, picking up the clippings and mowing the bank of the pond. The first few years, there were a lot of cattails, and it would take 2 - 3 hours to cut them all down. Since I have been doing the maintenance twice per year for several years, cattail growth is minimal. It only takes a little over an hour to do complete maintenance on the pond now.
Here is a time lapse video of the maintenance I did on my pond over the weekend.
As you can see, it took just over an hour to cut all the cattails with The Yard Blade®, pick them up and mow the bank.
- Light weight, durable hardened steel blade with optional straight or serrated cutting edge.
- 10" blade makes it easy to maneuver to cut around plants that you wish to keep.
- Handle can be adjusted for left or right hand use, and is set to an angle to make cutting vegetation easy with the simple pull from shore.
- Uses 1” diameter telescoping pole (can be purchased on our website or at any local pool supply store)
- Great for removing cattails from garden ponds. (must cut below the water's surface to drown roots and prevent new growth*)
- Also great for weeding the vegetable garden and even cleaning up Day Lillies and Hostas at the end of the season!
- Kit includes blade and all hardware required to attach to 1" telescoping pole. (Telescoping pole sold separately)
*http://monroe.cce.cornell.edu/environment/ponds/controlling-cattails